Thank you Dinesh ji... the color pink vs yellow has bothered me about the identity ... true...
so its a good idea ... WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST IS TO KNOW THE PROCESS USED BY TAXONOMISTS TO RECLASSIFY A PLANT BASED SOLELY ON THESE FEW PICTURES... ARE THERE ENOUGH FEATURES present to help in that direction? so a step by step method would be very useful for me and other non-botanists.... Usha di ====== On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: > Usha di ... the plant posted is not *Thespesia lampas* ... from the look > of first image Banakapas 1 - though not sure, could be some species of * > Gossypium*. > Please wait for comment(s) > Regards. > Dinesh > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:40 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ** Thanks Usha di. Will prefer Madhuri from you. Requested others. They >> don't listen. >> I learnt my Botany from my grand ma. She and me had a habit of bringing >> cutting of any dam plant available in near visinity and plant it around our >> house. It was a jungle in the area of around 100 feet by 20 feet. All >> Malvaceaes and Aposynaceae, paps and what not were there. Most of the plants >> for which I have told vernacular names were in my jungle, healthy and >> flowering. >> For Gauri, Ganapati and Mangalagauri we use to collect all patries >> (leaves), from near by. So had to know the names. Nice were those days. >> Thanks again. Will surely collect the seeds and photos too! >> Madhuri >> >> Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel >> ------------------------------ >> *From: * ushadi Micromini <[email protected]> >> *Sender: * [email protected] >> *Date: *Wed, 7 Sep 2011 09:15:33 +0530 >> *To: *Madhuri Pejaver<[email protected]> >> *Cc: *efloraofindia<[email protected]>; Gurcharan Singh< >> [email protected]>; J.M. Garg<[email protected]> >> *Subject: *Re: [efloraofindia:80100] Malvaceae week 09 05 2011 UD 004 Ban >> Kapas Thespesia lampas Jungli Paras Piplo Kolkata 08 >> >> Madhuri ji: what an acute observation as a child... smart.... have you >> seen similar plants now? if you do... please get some pics and seeds... >> that would be lovely... >> usha di >> == >> >> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Madhuri Pejaver <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Dear Ushadi >>> In my childhood we had a cotton plant in our garden, I do not know the >>> genus and sps. But it was called as Dev kapus. >>> The cotton balles have seeds inside. In one variety all seeeds are joined >>> togather to form one bundle. This is considered as good cotton? >>> While the second one has its seeds seperate. For seperating the seeds the >>> first one is better, Because cleaning is easy. >>> we use to make the battis in lamps from this cotton. the plant was there >>> atleast for 10 to 11 years as per my memory. We use to cut it to keep the >>> proper height so that we can remove the cotton. One day it fail in rain >>> Madhuri >>> >>> --- On *Tue, 6/9/11, ushadi Micromini <[email protected]>*wrote: >>> >>> >>> From: ushadi Micromini <[email protected]> >>> Subject: [efloraofindia:79982] Malvaceae week 09 05 2011 UD 004 Ban Kapas >>> Thespesia lampas Jungli Paras Piplo Kolkata 08 >>> To: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]>, "Gurcharan Singh" >>> <[email protected]>, "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> >>> Date: Tuesday, 6 September, 2011, 6:02 PM >>> >>> >>> Dear All: >>> >>> This is a new plant for me... never knew cotton plants would go on and on >>> for years... this one does apparently... look at its stem... its about 8 - 9 >>> inches in diameter... I always thought cotton plants were a yearly >>> affair... may be the agricultural pathos had brainwashed me/us... >>> >>> This was in a well tended herbal Garden ... for demonstration purposes to >>> Ethnomedicine and other students.. >>> >>> >>> Family : Malvaceae >>> >>> * * >>> >>> *Species: Thespesia lampus* (Cav.) Dalz. Ex. Dalz. & Gibs. ; >>> >>> Syn: *Azanzas lampas* (Cav.) Alef.; >>> >>> *Thespesia macrophylla* Blume >>> >>> Vernacular names : Bengali: Ban Kapas * *বন* *কাপাস >>> >>> Gujarati: Jungli Para piplo જંગલી >>> * *પ।રસ પીપળો >>> >>> >>> >>> This specimen was about 9-10 feet tall, grew kinda straight up, had a few >>> flowers, I went in 4 pm , so the flowers were closing, but the petal color >>> was still beautiful pink... and a few pods high up had opened up to reveal >>> the cotton. The leaves were varied in size... largest were 7-8 inches long. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> What is used is: Various tribes use differently... Some use flower paste >>> for burn, root paste for eczema, juice of young pods on Scabies. I found >>> it very curious that Santhals of Bengal mix juice of its stem bark and >>> Aristolochia indica root paste on snake bite.... this we learned in class. >>> >>> >>> But along a Bengal village by the Damodar river we found an old lady who >>> said she had in the past used the root bark juice to induce miscarriage ( >>> this is quite opposite to the effect of Thepesia populinea root bark paste >>> effect... which says it helps women get pregnant, esp get a male child... >>> curiouser and curiouser!!!) >>> >>> >>> Come to think of it ... similar plant had been growing beyond the wall of >>> students' garden at a Ayurvedic college... and the local young gardeners, >>> very sheepishly asked us not to photograph it... >>> >>> there was so much else to learn that we did not pursue that tree... but >>> I distinctly remember it had cotton pods.. round ones , just like this >>> one... >>> >>> >>> Thanks.. >>> >>> Usha di >>> >>> >> >
