Thank you Ushadi. I need to watch Star Trek again, this sounds exciting! The last two pictures show the living aphids. I didn't bring any home that time to look under the microscope (I should have). I will do so at the next opportunity and share the results. I could not find any photo of this aphid online but found its new bionominal here;
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melaphis_chinensis Thanks. Ashwini > On 08-Jan-2016, at 8:26 PM, Ushadi Micromini <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Ashwini > what a nice complete story > > loved the opened tha galls and fall foliage > > but intrigued : last two pictures esp the last > > what are these > my first knee jerk response was that these are some insect > exoskeletons, but do midges have them in some stage of their life cycle? > > or > are these tiny seeds??? > but the white fuzzy powdery stuff around them matches whats inside the galls > > so I am not sure, > may be some etymologists among our would know... > or Gargji would know who to write to ... > > my funny bone was tickled too, they (flat things in last two pictures) > remind me of the troglodytes (or some such things) > that they showed as first emerging from a > newly formed planet in one of the star trek movies... (Star Trek III think) > and these and such life forms in quick succession progressed to new Spock... > advanced humanoid species from planet Vulcan.. Have you seen these movies? > > > any way, wonderful stuff. > That's why I missed you > > usha di > > > >> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 7:56 PM, Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> I had first spotted this tree in December 2014 and filed some photos here. >> Krishan Lal ji, Ushadi and Narain Singh ji had helped identify it as Rhus >> chinensis. I had found a branch fallen off the tree in August 2015 and had >> photographed some details to share here but didn’t get the time to do so. >> >> I had found a bunch of galls and had photographed them. Doing a little >> research I found out that these galls are common on Rhus species are prized >> in Chinese medicine for their astringent, antidiarrheal and antibacterial >> properties. They are also used to stop bleeding and reduce scarring from >> scrapes and cuts. >> >> The galls are caused by an aphid called Melaphis chinensis which is a >> resident on Rhus trees. >> >> Col. Collett in Flora Simlensis (p. 105) mentions this tree by its old name >> R. semialata and notes that galls on this tree 'are used in the manufacture >> of ink and in native medicine’. Dr Narain Singh mentions another Rhus >> species R. succedenia (p.578, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of H.P.) and >> gives the local name for galls as ‘titre’. >> >> Rhus chinensis—Chinese sumac >> Above Mcleodganj, Dharamshala, HP >> 1800m >> 26 August 2015 and 03 December 2014 >> >> Thanks. >> Ashwini >> >> December 2014 >> <_MG_4155_03Dec14.jpg> >> <IMG_1098_S95_03Dec14.jpg> >> >> >> >> 26 August 2015, Jan 2016 (the pealed bark) >> <_MG_7135_02Jan2016.jpg> >> >> <_MG_3646_26Aug2015.jpg><_MG_3650_26Aug2015.jpg><_MG_3661_26Aug2015.jpg><_MG_3683_26Aug2015.jpg><_MG_3699_26Aug2015.jpg><_MG_3699c_26Aug2015.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 https://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 https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
