You and me r sailing in same boat. I knew a little Botany prior. You r learning it now. But to be frank in my jr BSc. I use to like Botany very much. But there were 33 families for study. I did not like Taxonomy much then, if I had taken Botany as my major I would have to learn 66 families. Sooooo went for Zoology. I give the entire credit to this heterogenous group which made me take interest in taxonomy. The credit goes to Gargji too who invited me on the group. Thanks again Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel
-----Original Message----- From: Ushadi micromini <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 20:24:39 To: efloraofindia<[email protected]> Subject: [efloraofindia:80657] Re: Malvaceae week 952011-9112011 UD 020 Bombax ceiba Lal Sheemul On Sep 9, 7:44 am, ushadi Micromini <[email protected]> wrote: > yes Madhuri.... keep it open... this family is in a great flux... APG APGII > and Thorne systems come to mind... each system it seems keeps moving the > chess pieces around....in subfamily, and tribes... so one never knows (esp > people like me semi serious "non-botanist-botanist" types... for me this was > a source of confusion and apprehension,) > > May be as the data is coordinated... Balkarji would give us his take on the > classification!! > > ha ha Balkarji one more job!! > > usha di > > ===== > > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Madhuri Pejaver <[email protected]>wrote: > > > hey some reorientation is occuring in brain. > > Again never occured that Katesavari is Malvaceae > > Madhuri > > > --- On *Thu, 8/9/11, ushadi Micromini <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: ushadi Micromini <[email protected]> > > Subject: [efloraofindia:80524] Malvaceae week 952011-9112011 UD 020 Bombax > > ceiba Lal Sheemul > > To: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]>, "Balkar Arya" < > > [email protected]>, "Gurcharan Singh" <[email protected]>, "J.M. Garg" > > <[email protected]>, "Dinesh Valke" <[email protected]>, "Satish > > Phadke" <[email protected]>, "Neil Soares" <[email protected]> > > Date: Thursday, 8 September, 2011, 9:11 PM > > > Malvaceae week 952011-9112011 UD 020 Bombax ceiba Lal sheemul > > > Dear All: > > > For about 8 to 10 day at the very beginning of spring in Kolkata there is > > a bright red spot among the bare branched tree tops… and if you pay > > attention you can count numerous birds, esp bulbuls and sunbirds etc > > drinking > > nectar and eting away something…. > > > I believe Bimal da had done a series this year to document the species of > > birds visiting the red Sheemul flowers… > > > The two pictures I am sending in are from a tree whose branches come down > > to my eye level… near where we go for morning walks…. > > > Family: Malvaceae > > > Subfamily: Bombacoideae > > > Genus: Bombax L. > > > Species : Bombax ceiba > > > Colloquial names : red sheemul, shimul, shalmali etc > > > Enjoy > > > USha di
