Thanks, Chadwell ji. On 17 January 2017 at 06:38, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote:
> I know little about the flora of the region but I have serious doubts that > the rose photographed represents a 'wild' species. It clearly is a > cultivated > plant. My understanding is that the wild R.leschenaultiana has SINGLE > flowers. > > The situation is confused by the JCB Herbarium see: > http://florakarnataka.ces.iisc.ac.in/hjcb2/herbsheet.php?id=3768&cat=1 > having a photo of > a similar cultivated rose as this. Whereas they have a pressed specimen > with single flowers. In the description it says 5 large white petals! > See: http://florakarnataka.ces.iisc.ac.in/hjcb2/herbsheet. > php?id=3768&cat=1 > > The line drawing on Wikimedia, see: https://species.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Rosa_leschenaultiana#/media/File:Rosa_leschenaultiana.jpg also does > NOT match the images taken at Madikeri. > > On Monday, 11 April 2011 19:27:59 UTC+1, Dinesh Valke wrote: > >> Dear friends, >> >> Attached (cropped) photos are of one of the rare rose found in the high >> altitude wilderness of southern and central Western Ghats ... most >> probably endemic. >> *Rosa leschenaultiana* Red. & Thory ex. Wight & Arn ... *Rosa >> sempervirens* var. *leschenaultiana* Thory (basionym) >> Not much is discussed about this plant on the internet. >> >> Used "Wildflowers of Kodagu" by Dr T Ananda Rao as reference for ID ... >> he mentions local name as ಕಾಡು ಗುಲಾಬಿ ಹೂವು *kaadu gulaabi huvu*, >> translated would mean: wild briar (OR brier) flower >> A Badaga-English dictionary by Paul Hockings, Christiane Pilot-Raichoor >> has an entry for this plant with English names as Nilgiri cluster-rose, >> Nilgiri dog-rose. >> >> Will be glad to know the Tamil name of this plant OR the local name used >> by people of Nilgiri ... would it be *semmati* OR *cemmati* ? >> >> >> Date/Time : March 30, 2011 at 5.59pm IST >> Location Place : outskirts of Madikeri town, Karnataka ... 12.450505, >> 75.711958 on Google maps <http://goo.gl/maps/9b5F> >> Altitude : 3606 ft (above mean sea level) >> >> >> Regards. >> Dinesh >> >> >> PS: Please bear with the quality of photos ... all the 3 days at Coorg >> were overcast. >> > -- > 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>. 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.
