Great work Sir ji. I went through your publication. With Regards, On Monday, March 6, 2023 at 5:45:44 PM UTC+5:30 [email protected] wrote:
> Dear Gurcharan Ji, > Thanks for the ID and the very interesting anecdote and copy of paper. > That students were forced to identify a plant with only disc florets as > *Sonchus > *a plant with only ray florets speaks volumes about how much more we have > to do to improve our educational institutions. In your paper you have > referred to it along with *Trifolium dubium* as an introduced species > (which has become invasive like *Conyza). Conyza canadensis* has even > been given a vernacular name *"Shael e loet" *by the locals. > With sincere regards > Taffazull > On Monday, March 6, 2023 at 1:28:40 AM UTC+5:30 Gurcharan Singh wrote: > >> Senecio vulgaris, a common Spring weed in Kashmir. An interesting story >> relating to this plant. The plant is very common in KU Campus, especially >> Orchards behind Botanical Garden. We were taught in our M. Sc. Class that >> it is Sonchus plant, and it came in our final exam also to describe and >> identify the genus from the Key. I had the habit of describing flowers from >> original plant, and as such I described the capitulum with disc florets (as >> ray florets are highly reduced in this species), but when using the key it >> did not fit Sonchus (in which there are only ray florets), but I and other >> friends wrote Sonchus, as there was no other option, but this bugged me a >> lot, and when I joined research, this was the first plant I investigated >> and found that species has never been reported from Kashmir, and published >> as among first records from Kashmir in 1972. I am attaching the paper. >> >> On Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 4:17:52 PM UTC+5:30 [email protected] wrote: >> >>> Dear Members, >>> Kindly help in identifying the herb whose photos are attached. It was >>> growing wild in a field in Srinagar. It was photographed today only . >>> Regards >>> Taffazull >>> >> -- 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/b1d6e56c-00c6-4afd-be9d-e306b57b1cb7n%40googlegroups.com.
