I will upload it separately soon 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 Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> wrote: > Gurcharan ji has photographed them in his brain since that time. > Now using digicam for showing them to us. > > Dr Satish Phadke > > On 27 January 2015 at 19:48, Ushadi Micromini <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Toxicodendron succedaneum i guess would be the indian equivalent of NE >> usa 's poison sumac may be? >> >> Sumac's juice is toxic so are the berries to humans but birds during snow >> storms have this and a few other red berries in urban landscape for food... >> >> googling shows bright red foliage... >> does it get that red in fall or winter in Kashmir? >> >> usha di >> >> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>>> =========== >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Usha di >> =========== >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. 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