Dear Dr. Kadus, Can you elaborate on the habitat where you found the Utricularia species? If you found it growing on vertical rock faces, boulders or tree trunks and if all the leaves are rounded as in the photograph, it is could be Utricularia striatula, the common lithophytic/epiphytic Utricularia in the Western Ghats. Plumbago zeylanica, and many species of Smithia have sticky glandular hair, where insects get stuck many times. They die there, but the plant has NO mechanism to digest and use their nutrients. Hence the plants are not carnivorous in any sense. However, some scientists, call this condition, "protocarnivory", that means a step before carnivory is achieved. So according to them, such plants might in evolutionary times (say a few million years in future) also develop a mechanism to digest plants and learn to digest the insects, and hence evolve to be truly carnivorous. You can search the wikipedia, which gives more details of this phenomenon. Regards, Aparna
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Dr. Arvind Kadus <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi,All ! > I have to make some corrections in my photoes. Yes the red one is D. > burmani and green one is D.indica. Just a typing mistake. The last one > added by me is not the drosera but Utricularia sp. at Lavasa. Sorry > for the mistakes. Actually I am not a Botonist, So please forgive. > Nice pictures with flowering of D. indica. by Prashantaji. Thank you > for this sharing with us. > Don't know about the medicinal values of this plant. Plumbago > zeylanica is one of the plants I think preveously must be the drosera. > Because it is having the bulb with sticky filaments over it. > Dr. Kadus Arvind.Pune. > > On Aug 9, 9:11 am, Vijayadas D <[email protected]> wrote: >> I like to note this as Drosera sps. >> >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 3:02 AM, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I also think some Species of Urticularia sp >> > tanay >> >> > On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Gurcharan Singh >> > <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> >> Yes Prashant ji >> >> Very nice pictures. >> >> >> -- >> >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> >> Retired Associate Professor >> >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >> >>http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Pankaj Kumar >> >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> >>> thanks a lot for sharing....beautiful pics... >> >>> Pankaj >> >> >>> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Prashant awale <[email protected]> >> >>> wrote: >> >>> > Dear Arvind ji, Pankaj ji, >> >>> > I got the opportunity to see the inflorescence of Drosera Indica. >> >>> Sharing >> >>> > these photos. I had photographed this on the way to Dukes nose >> >>> (Lonavala >> >>> > region) few years back. >> >>> > regards >> >>> > Prashant >> >> >>> > On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> >> >>> wrote: >> >> >>> >> This doesnt look like Drosera, but most probably Utricularia!! >> >>> >> Pankaj >> >> > -- >> > Tanay Bose >> > +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) >> > 9830439691(Mobile) >> >> -- >> Vijayadas D >> Horticulturist EstateSupervisorDeputy >> Salwa Garden Village, PB -7210 >> Riyadh -11462 , KSA >> vijayadas.wetpaint.com- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - -- Dr. Aparna Watve Dr. Aparna Watve Asha Appt, Shanti Nagar, Ekata Colony Nr. BSNL tower, Akbar Ward, Seoni.480661 tel: 07692-228115 mobile: (0)9755667710 and 9822597288 still works
