The photograph alone will be misleading often. Always one should check the taxonomic characters from the flora/ published data to ascertain the proper botanical name. Websites may provide an indication of the specie's name and may not be authentic, as it happens some times.
--- On Mon, 25/10/10, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: From: Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Fwd: [efloraofindia:51887] hello, To: "indiantreepix" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, 25 October, 2010, 11:27 PM Could find this jpeg from Plants of Coromandel. Now please comment what species is yours. I find my image to be different from the one shared in the thread. For the information of those whom I sent the dvd, this reference is there in it. Please check. Roxburgh's paintings had a drawback. He had this bad habit of giving a symmetric look to all the plants. They usually didnt look the way they look in natural live condition. But no doubts his paintings were masterpieces for botany. I have this privilege of seeing some of his original paintings which cant be replicated in another 10000 years!!! Pankaj -- *********************************************** "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) Research Associate Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project Department of Habitat Ecology Wildlife Institute of India Post Box # 18 Dehradun - 248001, India
