Well said by Garg ji followed by valuable inputs from other members. Yes. the eflora website goes a long way in helping many students / researchers besides common man interested in plants. In this connection I have a question : Is there any web site which can identify the plants by posting images of flowers/fruits/ leaves etc. I remember to have seen one. But I have forgotten and unable to trace.
On Saturday, September 1, 2018 at 11:07:11 AM UTC+5:30, JM Garg wrote: > > Dear members, > With omnipresent mobile and net, I have the feeling that people are more > and more going to rely on net in their identifications rather than books > etc. > I always remember and appreciate Rawat ji's words in this matter- a > picture says more than a thousand words. Photographs are so beautiful and > give so much details that it will always be difficult for any herbarium > specimen or a book to match. These are so easy to comprehend even to a > layman. > Our group and site is surely going to play a major role in this as far as > Indian Flora is concerned. With increased focus on accuracy (which is only > going to increase with passing time), I do not see a day far when our top > taxonomists will appreciate its value and rely on its identifications. > -- > 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- more than 2975 members & 3,00,000 messages on 25.7.18) or > Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 12,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which 1,00,000 > are directly displayed). > > 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.
