Thanks for Id & information Chris Regards On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 at 7:31 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > -- > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CA%2BiuSFAd%2BTYxoiW2%3D8Khn4m8iw5jmv8JR57%3DJXpeTchjxP5_BA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CABDcxeDSWsazPv1RkNFhKP8%2B-kx9m5sLZd%2B%2BPzUTW1W7Sjnwhw%40mail.gmail.com.
