Congratulations to Garg ji, Dinesh ji for creating the eFI sites! The effort involved in creating and updating the database is unimaginable, kudos to Garg ji for having done it single-handedly! The website is constantly evolving, and I am sure that it will still get better in the future, and will serve as a great source of information on Indian plants. Thanks to all members of the eFI family for collectively enriching the database with numerous quality pictures and data.
Vijay ------------------------------------------------------------------- Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D. Research Scientist National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi, MS, USA On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 4:05 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Pankaj ji, > You have been an inspiration through out all these years not only to me > but to all of us. > And I see you always take out your time for Orchids. > > On 2 November 2015 at 14:53, Dr Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Happy Birthday to eflora of India and special thanks to the members >> especially to Garg sir and Gurcharan sir and many others without whom this >> wouldnt have been possible. >> I always make excuse that I have lot of work, but obviously Garg sir too >> has lot of work, but I imagine how he finds time for checking all mails. >> Its really very selfless which gives us immense knowledge about Indian >> plants. >> 10,000 species is not small and it is I assume already above 50% of the >> total angiospermic flora of India. >> Special thanks also to subject experts and moderators without whom many >> of the plants might have remained unidentified. >> Congratulations and best of luck for future... >> Pankaj >> >> >> On Monday, 2 November 2015 09:28:51 UTC+8, D.S Rawat wrote: >>> >>> It was a great futuristic vision of Dinesh ji who created the efloraofindia >>> site <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> which became >>> operative 5 years back on 2nd November 2010, where all the posted >>> messages and images by members of efloraofindia google e-group are being >>> compiled and managed. It has really been a marathon effort of compiling all >>> the posts in eFI site. Since then this site has seen many changes for >>> presenting information in a user friendly manner with greater accuracy >>> while also maintaining all the posts in the database. It could be possible >>> only due to Google group called “Indiantreepixs” (created on 18th June >>> 2007), which was later renamed as efloraofindia. The group discusses >>> plants, fungi, ferns etc. and has a following of a large number of members >>> and has accumulated a huge wealth of information on Indian plants. >>> >>> Today, eFI is the largest systematically arranged collection of images >>> of plants of India. More than 2,00,000 images of more than 11,000 species >>> uploaded by 2,500+ members from all parts of India makes it the largest >>> collection from India available on net. Soon all the species’ pages will be >>> having images for easy identification >>> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/indiantreepix/dx_ihgI9y1M>. >>> And this treasure is ‘freely available to all’ without any advertisements, >>> which is the best part of eFI. >>> >>> It is the time to feel proud for this great endeavour. It is also the >>> time to salute the selfless contributions of The Pillars >>> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/about-us/pillars-of-efloraofindia>, >>> Subject Experts >>> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/about-us/subject-experts>, >>> Moderators >>> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/about-us/moderators>, Major >>> contributors >>> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/about-us/major-contributors> >>> and other members of efloraofindia google e-group >>> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/indiantreepix>. And it is >>> also the time to strengthen our determination to showcase all the plant >>> species of India on the canvas of eFI. >>> >>> Progress of the group till June 2015 is depicted in the attached word >>> document: >>> >>> >>> Dr D.S.Rawat >>> Department of Biological Sciences, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & >>> Technology Pantnagar-263 145 Uttarakhand, INDIA >>> >>> -- >> 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). You can also use them for free as > per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the > world- more than 2500 members & 2,25,000 messages on 18.6.15) or Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 11,000 species & 2,00,000 images). Winner of > Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. > > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > -- > 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. > -- 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. 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