-- With regards, J. M. Garg ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 May, 2022, 3:38 am Subject: Re: [itpmods:17088] Fwd: Sandhya Sasidharan: Best Flora Photograph to celebrate 15 years of completion of efloraofindia on 17.6.22 To: itpmods <itpm...@googlegroups.com>
Very nice story and beautiful picture. Pankaj On Sun, 29 May 2022 at 19:28, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> > Date: Sun, 29 May 2022 at 16:51 > Subject: Sandhya Sasidharan: Best Flora Photograph to celebrate 15 years > of completion of efloraofindia on 17.6.22 > To: efloraofindia <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> > Cc: Sandhya Sasidharan <harithasand...@yahoo.com> > > > I would like to share the picture and the story of a little plant that > came to me unbidden. Years ago it had sprouted in a grow bag in which I > used to grow vegetables on my terrace. I still wonder how those tiny seeds > made its way into the bag. This was a plant I had never seen before. I was > sure that it belonged to Rubiaceae. I sought the help of my botanist friend > Dr. Kunhikannan. At first he said he couldn’t identify it and asked me to > keep a herbarium specimen for him which I did. Later he came up with the > identification. It was Oldenlandia attenuata (Hedyotis attenuata) which > apparently has been identified from two districts in Kerala, one of which > was Trivandrum where I was living. Another location of identification was > Maharashtra. I tried the internet for more information but nothing much was > available. It just says it is a native of India and perhaps Vietnam. > > I was on the look out for the plant since then but I never found the plant > in my neighbourhood. I came across it in other parts of the city only a > couple of times, that too a tiny cluster clinging on to the recess of a > wall. I had wanted to post it in eflora but somehow I didn’t ( I had > photographed the plant in 2013). Looking at the eflora database now I can’t > find this species. > > So I thought I would share this plant with you friends hoping that we can > get to know more about the plant from our experts. Celebrating the 15 > wonderful years of eflora with the story of this tiny plant, with lovely > tiny white flowers, nothing flamboyant or glamorous… but silently > continuing its journey with the sheer power of survival. > - > Sandhya Sasidharan > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ITPmods" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to itpmods+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/itpmods/CA%2BiuSFDzxtvmzrVHCy6quAVKVK08a7A96DBZhA2G_VRX%3DjKvog%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/itpmods/CA%2BiuSFDzxtvmzrVHCy6quAVKVK08a7A96DBZhA2G_VRX%3DjKvog%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- *Pankaj Kumar* MSc, PhD, FLS *IUCN-SSC Orchid Specialist Group Asia* Lam Tsuen, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong S.A.R., P.R. China *email*: sahanipan...@gmail.com; pku...@kfbg.org *Phone*: +852 9436 6251 (mobile) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ITPmods" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to itpmods+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/itpmods/CABpo8%3D3pEm8e%2BNfs1-96PwDgTdOUFkmqrOGxdik%2BvNhSheCnUw%40mail.gmail.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/itpmods/CABpo8%3D3pEm8e%2BNfs1-96PwDgTdOUFkmqrOGxdik%2BvNhSheCnUw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . -- 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 indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CA%2BiuSFB6MLcg7v8svSJ1Nv74yw_ejRUe%3DsmyDnvcZaWPU1DUKw%40mail.gmail.com.
