---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> Date: 20 April 2015 at 09:55 Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:220930] Morchella esculenta?/ABAPR09 To: Cc: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]>
Thank you Dr Reddy. Unfortunately, I do not have the specimen. I found a young man collecting these in the wild on a mountain slope at about 1750m altitude above Mcleodganj, Dharamshala. The wood was a mixture of cedar, rhododendron, grey oak, wild pear and occasional spruce and pine. What *Morchella* species are found here in the Western Himalayas? Warm regards, Ashwini On 20-Apr-2015, at 9:41 am, ms reddy <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks for the mail and sending the pics of morels. I can not say it is Morchella esculenta, but it is Morchella speceis. For identification we require the specimen, location and under which plantation it is collected. We have already studied the diversity of Morels from northwest Himalayas. It is one of the delicious and priced wild mushroom and difficult to cultivate. with regards M.S. Reddy Dr. M.S. Reddy Professor Deprtment of Biotechnology Thapar University Patiala 147004. On 19 April 2015 at 15:25, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Sir, > Pl. help with the id of this species. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> > Date: 12 April 2015 at 11:48 > Subject: [efloraofindia:220930] Morchella esculenta?/ABAPR09 > To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> > Cc: Narain Singh Chauhan <[email protected]> > > > Friday, on my walk I met a young local boy collecting something on the > slopes. Curious, I asked him what he was collecting and he was kind enough > to climb down to show me a mushroom he was collecting with another woman. > He told me that it was called Jhinjhiri (or chinchiri, I can't say exactly) > and once dried fetched good price in the medicine market. A kilo of dried > stuff went for about Rs 2000 he said. He allowed me to photograph it and I > am sharing it with you. > > Another local woman later told me that she had eaten it in a vegetable > dish but added that it was rare to get. If I am not wrong it looks like a > Common Morel or *Morchella esculenta*. > > Dr Narain Singh Chauhan mentions it in his book for its medicinal > properties (p. 268, *Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Himachal Pradesh*, > 2nd ed.) and use as food. > > Please advise. > > *Morchella esculenta* (Common Morel) > Above Mcleodganj, Dharamshala, HP > 1800m > 10 April 2015 > > Thanks. > Ashwini > > <IMG_2974_10Aprl15.jpg><IMG_2977_10Aprl15.jpg> > > -- > 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. > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> > The whole world uses my Image Resource > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a > thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. > (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). 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