Thanks, Mahadeswara ji. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: M Swamy <[email protected]> Date: 10 December 2017 at 09:10 Subject: Re: Malvaceae week 09 05 2011 UD 004 Ban Kapas Thespesia lampas Jungli Paras Piplo Kolkata 08 To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]>
For me the ID is O.K. On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 9:58 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > I think *Gossypium hirsutum* L. > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/m/malvaceae/gossypium/gossypium-hirsutum> > as > per images herein due to laciniate epicalyx segments. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: J.M. Garg <[email protected]> > Date: 4 December 2011 at 12:44 > Subject: Fwd: Malvaceae week 09 05 2011 UD 004 Ban Kapas Thespesia lampas > Jungli Paras Piplo Kolkata 08 > To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected] > > > "Usha di ... the plant posted is *not Thespesia lampas* ... from the look > of first image Banakapas 1 - though not sure, could be some *species of > Gossypium*. > Please wait for comment(s) > Regards. > Dinesh" > > "Thank you Dinesh ji... > the color pink vs yellow has bothered me about the identity ... true... > so its a good idea ... > WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST IS TO KNOW THE PROCESS USED BY TAXONOMISTS > TO RECLASSIFY A PLANT BASED SOLELY ON THESE FEW PICTURES... ARE THERE > ENOUGH FEATURES present to help in that direction? so a step by step method > would be very useful for me and other non-botanists.... > Usha di" > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: ushadi Micromini <[email protected]> > Date: 6 September 2011 18:02 > Subject: Malvaceae week 09 05 2011 UD 004 Ban Kapas Thespesia lampas > Jungli Paras Piplo Kolkata 08 > To: efloraofindia <[email protected]>, Gurcharan Singh < > [email protected]>, "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> > > > Dear All: > > This is a new plant for me... never knew cotton plants would go on and on > for years... this one does apparently... look at its stem... its about 8 - > 9 inches in diameter... I always thought cotton plants were a yearly > affair... may be the agricultural pathos had brainwashed me/us... > > This was in a well tended herbal Garden ... for demonstration purposes to > Ethnomedicine and other students.. > > > Family : Malvaceae > > > > *Species: Thespesia lampus* (Cav.) Dalz. Ex. Dalz. & Gibs. ; > > Syn: *Azanzas lampas* (Cav.) Alef.; > > *Thespesia macrophylla* Blume > > Vernacular names : Bengali: Ban Kapas বন* *কাপাস > > Gujarati: Jungli Para piplo જંગલી* > *પ।રસ પીપળો > > > > This specimen was about 9-10 feet tall, grew kinda straight up, had a few > flowers, I went in 4 pm , so the flowers were closing, but the petal > color was still beautiful pink... and a few pods high up had opened up to > reveal the cotton. The leaves were varied in size... largest were 7-8 > inches long. > > > > > What is used is: Various tribes use differently... Some use flower paste > for burn, root paste for eczema, juice of young pods on Scabies. I > found it very curious that Santhals of Bengal mix juice of its stem bark > and Aristolochia indica root paste on snake bite.... this we learned in > class. > > > But along a Bengal village by the Damodar river we found an old lady who > said she had in the past used the root bark juice to induce miscarriage ( > this is quite opposite to the effect of Thepesia populinea root bark paste > effect... which says it helps women get pregnant, esp get a male child... > curiouser and curiouser!!!) > > > Come to think of it ... similar plant had been growing beyond the wall of > students' garden at a Ayurvedic college... and the local young gardeners, > very sheepishly asked us not to photograph it... > > there was so much else to learn that we did not pursue that tree... but I > distinctly remember it had cotton pods.. round ones , just like this one... > > > Thanks.. > > Usha di > > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg ([email protected]) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* > & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/w > iki/Category:J.M.Garg. 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