-- With regards, J. M. Garg ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Chris Fraser-Jenkins <> Date: Tue, 2 Aug, 2022, 7:12 pm Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:429584] Id please To: J.M. Garg <[email protected]>, [email protected] < [email protected]>
Lycopodium japonicum, common clubmoss. If you sprinkle the spores over a flame they spark in the air as the internal oil burns. They used to be collected to use as yellow powder during Holi, now replaced by yellow aniline dyed powder - which is mildly carcinogenic, like so many of our modern chemicals. [mind you, spores of Pteridium revolutum, Bracken, are carcinogenic, too, so it's not only modern unnatural chemicals!]. As I expect you have seen, the plant is traditionally used to adorn wedding gates at marriage-parties - and even the army use it on their barbed-wire fences - which is not sustainable and ought to be stopped. I have seen people gathering great sacks of it for sale as an adornment. It can't be cultivated as it always dies once uprooted, wrong mycorrhiza... Best wishes, Chris Fraser-Jenkins, Portugal. On Tuesday, 2 August 2022 at 12:10:48 BST, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks, Smita ji ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: *Smita Raskar* <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2022 at 12:17 Subject: [efloraofindia:429584] Id please To: indiantreepix <[email protected]> Hello friends can anyone identify this herb? this was growing on slopes of hills when moved sporophylls produced clouds of spore as seen in pic Picture taken at West Bengal on July 2022 Thanks -- Smita Raskar 308 Disha Residency, Salaiwada,Sawantwadi Mob.09422379568 -- 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/CABDcxeC%3DB9Si5JBTCYksrc0yN0LLivDaekEmqougjxqELuFkDw%40mail.gmail.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CABDcxeC%3DB9Si5JBTCYksrc0yN0LLivDaekEmqougjxqELuFkDw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . -- With regards, J.M.Garg -- 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/CA%2BiuSFAd%2BTYxoiW2%3D8Khn4m8iw5jmv8JR57%3DJXpeTchjxP5_BA%40mail.gmail.com.
