Thank you very much Tabish for shedding light on this query, and for all the clarification and information. !!! Thanks for nice words too. All this is due to your motivation.
Cheers! Dinesh On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:07 PM, Tabish <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Dinesh, > I am happy to say that the mystery of this name "shunu mukram" is > finally resolved! The correct name is Shumu-mukram or Shumu-mukhram in > *Kachari* language in Assam. The reference is Flora of Assam, vol 2, by > UN Kanjilal, PC Kanjilal and A Das, page 196. I am attaching the relevant > portion. The reference is available for free download here: > https://archive.org/details/FloraOfAssam2 > I had originally got this name from some other site (from which I used > to get vernacular names in those days) - that site does not exist anymore. > It must have been a mistake on the site, which I copied on FOI. I think > that mistake got replicated on the web. I partially feel guilty of > perpetuating the mistake. Now that FOI is accessed by so many people for > information, it is much more important that the names that are put are > correct. So, the names should be put after applying some wisdom, and not by > blindly copying. In that respect Dinesh is doing a wonderful job. The > amount of labor he has put in collecting vernacular names of plants is > commendable! > I have corrected this mistake on FOI: > http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Yellow%20Himalayan%20Raspberry.html > and will try to inform other sites to correct it too. > Cheers! > Tabish > > > > > On Saturday, September 20, 2014 at 11:39:58 AM UTC+5:30, Dinesh Valke > wrote: >> >> Thanks very much Viplav ji for this clarification. >> >> Me too had a feeling that these words "shunu mukram" do not belong to >> Gujarati. Perhaps some words of foreign language mixed inadvertently, and >> must have got copy-pasted in several sites. >> >> I am not sure whether this wild-growing high altitude plant is found >> distributed in Gujarat. I will therefore not put any name for Gujarati at >> present. >> >> Thank you once again. This name was thoroughly intriguing! >> >> Regards. >> Dinesh >> >> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 10:50 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Colloquially, raspberries are usually called as such in Gujarati, >>> variously transliterated as રાઝબરી, રાસ્પબરી, રાસ્પબેરી etc. In fact, >>> Gauriphal / ગૌરીફળ has been included in modern-day Gujarati lexicons to >>> refer to some *Rubus* spp. >>> >>> I'm clueless about this "shunu mukram". Equally puzzling is *Rubus >>> moluccanus*; in some web sites, the Gujarati (?) name of this species >>> has been mentioned as "shumukan khasheba >>> <http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Wild%20Raspberry.html>"! >>> I doubt if these are the Gujarati names of these plants. >>> >>> Best wishes, Viplav >>> >>> El 18 de septiembre de 2014, 20:06, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> >>> escribió: >>> >>>> Dear Gujarati-knowing friends, the name for *Rubus ellipticus* Sm. >>>> is "shunu mukram". >>>> This name is found mentioned in many sites, however seems quite >>>> challenging to find the name in native script through Gujarati lexicons. >>>> Perhaps some typo. >>>> Please help; will be glad to get the name in native script. >>>> Regards. >>>> Dinesh >>>> >>> >>> >> -- 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.
