Never with this plant, but I remember getting lot rashes one day while back from collection from area of my research in early seventies, compelling me to show it to a doctor. His first question was did you collect some new plants today. I went back home to look at my polythene bag and soon discovered that I had collected a twig of Rhus succedanea now known as Toxicodendron succedaneum, whose juice is supposed to be toxic for skin.
Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Ushadi Micromini <[email protected] > wrote: > tell me about it > that's 100 rs more than what i was offered to teach a class of 300 1st and > 2nd year med students, I did not belong to the correct group pf > influential people in the officialdom > > i know i had to ask dad to help me with the bus fare to work > > and the same people talked a lot to newspapers about brain drain!!! > > === > > but we were better photographers for the economy, had to really plot out > what we wanted to photograph , > > and made me learn my camera and it functions well and few filters that > there were... usually begged them from microscopy lab techs or welders. > > usha di > > ps > I asked you about collecting by hand back then because of the skin > reactions, did you? > did you get skin allergies or burns? > usha di > > > > On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Ushadi >> Photography on film camera in early seventies was a great luxury. With a >> gazetted officer (doctor, engineer, lecturer) not getting more than Rs. 400 >> as salary, a coloured photo print costing 8-10 rupees, one could not afford >> to photograph all plants. Only a few of significance to be included in >> thesis were taken on black and white film. >> >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Retired Associate Professor >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >> http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> >> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Ushadi Micromini < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> collected ... by hand >>> or on film? >>> >>> hope on film >>> >>> usha di >>> >>> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks Ushadi and Satish >>>> >>>> One of the commonest plants on thatched walls in March April in >>>> Srinagar Kashmir. The flowers look like a mini Ranunculus. When I remember >>>> these plants I pity why there no digital cameras when we were so close to >>>> plants every day. The great beauty of plants in Ladakh I wonder I would be >>>> able to catch or not again. Collected lot of them between 1970-74 >>>> >>>> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >>>> Retired Associate Professor >>>> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >>>> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >>>> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >>>> http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ >>>> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >>>> >>>> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> A different genus from Ranunculaceae not discussed earlier I suppose. >>>>> Thanks Usha di for additional information. >>>>> >>>>> Dr Satish Phadke >>>>> >>>>> On 24 January 2015 at 18:40, Ushadi Micromini < >>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I have heard of this because of medical literature on contact >>>>>> dermatitis from plants.. never seen it as plant... thanks >>>>>> >>>>>> commonly also found and used in the middle east as herbal remedy, it >>>>>> juice is known to cause second degree burn like lesions ... >>>>>> so one has to be extra careful if handling these or trying to remove >>>>>> the "weeds" >>>>>> >>>>>> Metin A, Calka O, Akdeniz N, Behcet L. Phytodermatitis from >>>>>> *Ceratocephalus >>>>>> falcatus* Contact Dermatitis 2005;52:314-6. >>>>>> >>>>>> usha di >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected] >>>>>> > wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> *Ceratocephalus falcatus* (L.) Pers. Syn. Pl. 1:341, 1805 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> A small annual herb with all basal 3-fid leaves once or twice forked >>>>>>> into linear segments; scape naked; flower terminal, yellow, 10-15 mm in >>>>>>> diam; sepals 5, petals 5; stamens 5-15; achenes many on elongated >>>>>>> receptacle, with basal pouch and falcate beak. >>>>>>> Commonly found on walls or dry grounds. Photographed from >>>>>>> Pahalgam >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >>>>>>> Retired Associate Professor >>>>>>> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >>>>>>> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >>>>>>> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >>>>>>> http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ >>>>>>> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>>> Groups "efloraofindia" group. >>>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>>>> send an email to [email protected]. >>>>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >>>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Usha di >>>>>> =========== >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "efloraofindia" group. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>>> send an email to [email protected]. >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Usha di >>> =========== >>> >> >> > > > -- > Usha di > =========== > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. 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