welcome back Sandhya ji. Very nice story and beautiful picture. Sandhya ji sent me few seedlings (saplings) of Cypress vine (*Ipomoea quamoclit*) by courier when requested her when she posted the image to the group. Now plenty have come up in my garden. Thanks for your courtesy again,
On Sunday, May 29, 2022 at 4:57:54 PM UTC+5:30 JM Garg wrote: > 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 > -- 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/1576448c-751a-44b3-a36b-228df484f5ecn%40googlegroups.com.
