Thanks, Rawat ji. On 19 December 2016 at 09:47, D.S Rawat <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes it is new for eFI. Thank you for sending this. > It is not so uncommon and its absence in eFI is a bit surprising. I have > seen it in a plenty in Dalisera Alpine zone where it characteristically > grow under the canopy of *Rhododendron campanulatum*. At other places it > may grow on steep subalpine and alpine meadows. I have even eaten leaves as > green vegetable (it is edible) and tastes like other brassicaceae members > but with a little more pungency. Root is fusiform and medicinal. > > DSRawat Pantnagar > > > On Sunday, December 18, 2016 at 1:17:05 PM UTC+5:30, JM Garg wrote: >> >> Thanks, Chadwell ji. >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: C CHADWELL <[email protected]> >> Date: 18 December 2016 at 12:45 >> Subject: Re: Fwd: Megacarpaea polyandra >> To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> >> >> >> Yes - again! See attached. >> >> >> Best Wishes, >> >> >> Chris Chadwell >> >> >> 81 Parlaunt Road >> SLOUGH >> SL3 8BE >> UK >> >> www.shpa.org.uk >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* J.M. Garg <[email protected]> >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Sent:* Sunday, 18 December 2016, 7:08 >> *Subject:* Fwd: Megacarpaea polyandra >> >> I think you missed the attachment. >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: *C CHADWELL* <[email protected]> >> Date: 18 December 2016 at 11:45 >> Subject: Megacarpaea polyandra >> To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> >> >> >> Since we are looking at tall umbellifers at present incl. Angelicas, >> thought of sharing this. >> >> I attach a single image scanned in from a not especially good slide taken >> of a plant >> in cultivation by Alastair McKelvie in the UK. >> >> Looks like a first for eFI, so this is especially useful. >> >> I have never 'encountered' Megacarpaea polyandra in the Himalaya myself. >> >> Flowers of Himalaya says open slopes, light forests @ 3000-4300m from >> Kashmir to C.Nepal. >> >> Stewart recorded 2 species from N.Pakistan and Kashmir: >> >> M.bifida - N.Pakistan >> M.polyandra - Kashmir, where he said it was used for greens; 3000-3900m. >> Records from Khelanmarg >> and 'W.Tibet'. >> >> M.polyandra is not mentioned in 'Plants of Gulmarg' Naqshi, Singh & Koul. >> >> Has it been seen in Uttarakhand in recent years? It is given in a >> Supplementary List of plants collected by >> Holdsworth in the 'Valley of Flowers' and Upper Garwhal within the book >> 'The Valley of Flowers'. >> >> >> Best Wishes, >> >> >> Chris Chadwell >> >> >> 81 Parlaunt Road >> SLOUGH >> SL3 8BE >> UK >> >> www.shpa.org.uk >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> >> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. >> 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- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia >> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >> database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). >> 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. >> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >> India'. >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> >> >> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. >> >> 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- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia >> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >> database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). >> >> 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. >> >> 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 https://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> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. 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