Thanks, Chadwell ji. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: C CHADWELL <[email protected]> Date: 16 January 2017 at 22:50 Subject: Entries for Rosa webbiana on eFI To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]>
I have just gone through, INITIALLY, the entries under Rosa webbiana - which 'Flowers of the Himalaya' describes as the common pink-flowered rose of the W.Himalaya. One MIGHT have expected ALL entries to be correctly identified. However, I found that the images from the Kashmir Valley seem to be Rosa nanothamnus (which 'Flowers of the Himalaya' does not include) whilst the roses photographed in Lahaul & Spiti, I was not sure if they were xerophytic forms of R.macrophylla. I have seen what I understand to be R.macrophylla, above Koksar, in Lahaul. *This shows that I really SHOULD continue to check entries for all Himalayan genera on* *eFI.* *It is a mistake in plant identification to ASSUME a plant you see automatically belongs* *to a 'common' species. This applies both in the field (wild) and data-bases.* 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'. -- 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.
