Dear Dinesh Sir, I think this was great. I started it with genera like Eulophia, Malaxis and Pleione and then Astavarga, later transformed into families by Dr. Gurcharan and then grouped back into Fruits and Vegetables. I think yours was the toughest job as you were handling multiple families. It was really nice and informative and at once I thought these informations (Fruits and Vegetables) could have been compiled into an article on Food Plants of India!!
What I didnt like was my own activity, which has been minimized due my hectic schedule. But I added atleast one :P (Eriobotrya japonica) which no one else added except for Mr. Ninad. Over all it was fun and informative and I liked learning. Kudos to Dinesh Sir and all the rest who added more and more informations from India, to California to Germany. One request: Please dont keep such broad topics in future. I assume, family week/month would be better and less hectic. Regards Pankaj On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear friends, > > Many thanks for the frenzied posting of "fruits and vegetables" ... the > vigour of posting has increased many fold. > The benefit of focusing on a particular subject is clearly getting to be > seen -- every next day the concentrated efforts increase !! > The substance of our database is getting richer. > > My performance was fair at the start, but remained blank and miserable for > the rest of the period due to hectic activity at office front. > The weekends, luckily could be spent as holidays ... but, to vent out the > monotony of continuous work - retreated to Sahyadris. > > Many thanks to every one for stepping forward to share personal bits of > knowledge. > > Regards, > Dinesh > -- *********************************************** "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
