in this case its welcome because of the health hazards that the parent plat/host plant leads ot
or is led to by humans... regardless, since these evolved amny millions of years ago , there was perhaps a grand design , for these so called parasites to have a useful ecologial role to play I am glad you found them and photographed them learnt something new today usha di On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Prashant Awale <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > Dear Friends, > In the Tobacco field, i came across this Root parasite commonly named as* > Bambaku.* > {Orobanche cernua (Family: Orobanchaceae) is a root parasite mainly seen > on *Tobacco* crops. It is also reported on other Solanaceae crops. This > Bambaku infects the roots of the crops and causes severe damage.) > > Location: near Kolhapur, Maharashtra > > Identified by Shri Shrikant Ingalhalikar ji. > > Orobanche cernua is a small annual, leafless erect herb growing upto 20 > to 30cm. Flowers are seen in dense terminal spikes.) > > Enclosing the photograph of the Tobacco field were i had spotted this > herb and also the photographs of Orobanche cernua. > > Regards > Prashant > > -- > 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 an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
