A reply from Milind ji: "it is *Utricularia straitula*" On 19 September 2010 13:52, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise pl. > > Earlier relevant feedback: > > “This doesnt look like Drosera, but most probably Utricularia!! > Pankaj” > > > > “I also think some Species of Urticularia sp > tanay” > > > > “I have to make some corrections in my photoes. Yes the red one is D. > > burmani and green one is D.indica. Just a typing mistake. *The last one > added by me is not the drosera but Utricularia sp. at Lavasa. Sorry > for the mistakes.* Actually I am not a Botonist, So please forgive. > Nice pictures with flowering of D. indica. by Prashantaji. Thank you > for this sharing with us. > Don't know about the medicinal values of this plant. Plumbago > zeylanica is one of the plants I think preveously must be the drosera. > Because it is having the bulb with sticky filaments over it. > Dr. Kadus Arvind.Pune.” > > "*Dear Dr. Kadus, > Can you elaborate on the habitat where you found the Utricularia > species? If you found it growing on vertical rock faces, boulders or > tree trunks and if all the leaves are rounded as in the photograph, it > is could be Utricularia striatula, the common lithophytic/epiphytic > Utricularia in the Western Ghats. > *Plumbago zeylanica, and many species of Smithia have sticky glandular > hair, where insects get stuck many times. They die there, but the > plant has NO mechanism to digest and use their nutrients. Hence the > plants are not carnivorous in any sense. However, some scientists, > call this condition, "protocarnivory", that means a step before > carnivory is achieved. So according to them, such plants might in > evolutionary times (say a few million years in future) also develop a > mechanism to digest plants and learn to digest the insects, and hence > evolve to be truly carnivorous. You can search the wikipedia, which > gives more details of this phenomenon. > Regards, > Aparna" > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: arvind kadus <[email protected]> > Date: 8 August 2010 11:59 > Subject: [efloraofindia:43741] Droseras from KAAS.. > To: [email protected] > Cc: mani nair <[email protected]> > > > Dear Sir, > Yes they are *Carnivorus plants*, very little one. one of thos is *Drosera > indica* really at the size of the nail of our thumb.We had catched the > pictures of the plant with the insects. This plant is having the filaments > with the lobes containig the sticky material. When the insect get > attracted towards the plant( by its colour or other features), it get > stucked on the filaments.Then slowly these filaments get themselve rolled > over this insect and by these bulbs starting sucking the proteins from the > insect. This process is of around 60 mnts. > There is onother variety of drosera we have seen in Lavasa city last year. > Attaching the picture of it. Please see. > Thanx. > *Dr.Kadus arvind,Pune.* > > > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg ([email protected]) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > Image Resource of more than a thousand species of Birds, Butterflies, > Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg > For learning about Indian Flora, visit/ join Google e-group- Efloraofindia: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1360 members & > 47,000 messages on 10/9/10) > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg ([email protected]) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' Image Resource of more than a thousand species of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg For learning about Indian Flora, visit/ join Google e-group- Efloraofindia: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1360 members & 47,000 messages on 10/9/10)
