Dear All: growing up I always thought of Gokshuru as Indian only, almost proprietary herb but.... funny thing is i have witnessed herbal study group students come back with this exact plant from their weekend hiking on the mountains because they got stuck to their heavy woolen socks near Albuquerque New mexico ided by the instructor as Tribulus terrestris the student had hauled in a handful of these plants in, roos and all.
i also had it growing as a "weed" (not intentional purchase") in soil of my Plectranthus amboinicus potted plant in india, ided by botanists at Agri-hort garden kolkata as Tribulus terrestris i had many years ago looked it up this bizarre coincidence gist is it likes sandy drier soil: which it is: 1: in New Mexico hills and 2: in my potted ajwain leaf plectranthus: sandy cactus mix soil just today searching again to document it for this write up , i found https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/33318 page, and saw this, scrolling down the page, copy pasting " Global Distribution Tropical and warm temperate regions of the world Indian distribution State - Kerala, District/s: Palakkad, Kottayam, Idukki, Kollam, Wayanad - by - Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi" end quote or copy pasting. and googling: "Where is Tribulus terrestris found?" Gokshura, caltrop and goat's head (1). It grows in many places, i including parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East ().Oct 5, 2017 *google does not mention USA, New Mexico * so further googling for "Tribulus terrestris in new mexico hills?" gort me https://wnmu.edu/academic/nspages/gilaflora/tribulus_terrestris.html a whole page with pictures etc Presented in Association with the Western New Mexico University Department of Natural Sciences*Tribulus terrestris *Linnaeus (Puncture Vine, Goathead) *life is very interesting* *Thanks ALka for this spot of old memories* *usha di* On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 9:38 AM J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Mahadeswara ji. > > On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 at 08:50, Mahadeswara <[email protected]> wrote: > >> For me the ID by Alka Khare is correct. >> >> On Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 7:56:48 AM UTC+5:30, Alka Khare wrote: >>> >>> Hello friends >>> >>> See this plant near a freshwater lake at Kumbhargaon near Pune, MH in >>> Jan 2019. >>> The plant were very tiny and were buried in the sand around. >>> >>> Is this some Tribulus, T. terrestris?. >>> >>> Kindly provide ID. >>> >>> Regards >>> Alka Khare >>> >> -- >> 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- 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 email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Usha di =========== -- 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.
