Thanks Aarti ji Yes it is true. you may not get time to record things, but a few you can always remember and write. Place, habitat are must for any identification. Perhaps there may not been a busier schedule than our Chakrata trip, when we had no time to record details and took more than 5000 photographs in four days. If you just keep one twig on your hand and take its photograph, you can extract a lot of information from this photograph when you are processing it for sending it for identification. You may not send this particular photograph but can extract information like insertion of leaves (number of leaves at each point), size of leaf, size of flower and inflorescence and fruit. I hope all those who want experts to spend their time on identification, owe to spend this much time before sending photographs.
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Aarti S. Khale <[email protected]>wrote: > Gurcharan ji, > Thanks for all the guidelines. > Do you know why you are so special and you get so much of respect? > Because although you have a lot of knowledge, you share it with others > and are never rude.You treat all of us as your equals....even a new > member. > As members, we enjoy interacting with other members in our spare > time.I'm sure each one has his own occupation outside eflora. > Sometimes when you are travelling with your family and are time > bound....have to reach a place at a given time, you cannot have your > own agenda of flowers,thus making it difficult to add all the features > in the pictures taken. > I hope others will agree...some may not. > Regards, > Aarti > > On Oct 14, 10:32 am, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear friends > > Since we are coming across plants from different parts of India and some > > even from outside, it is advisable that mails containing identified or > > plants meant for identification should have the place of photography in > the > > subject line. For members sharing photographs of their identified plants, > > any additional information shared by the author (author citations, > synonyms, > > local names, description or any other useful information) is a bonus. Let > us > > not ask the person to provide additional information. If a person is > sharing > > identified plants it is understood that he has checked with reliable > > sources. If any of us has any doubt, let us do our homework and spell out > > our doubts, and not insist upon the author to provide us this or that > > information. Frankly it can be irritating for a person who is sharing his > > valuable information with you. We should feel lucky to get it as a bonus. > > > > As far as the plants meant for identification is concerned, the person > > uploading the photographs should provide a unique subject line consisting > of > > unique code ddmmyyyy+your initials+your post number for the day. > Supposing I > > upload my third plant for ID today from Delhi, the subject line would be > > "14102011GS3 a plant (or herb/shrub/tree/garden plant, etc) for ID from > > Delhi". This will ensure that threads don't get mixed up. The person > should > > provide as much information as possible as per the prescribed format, but > > these things are essential: place, altitude if known, habitat > > (wild/cultivated/weed of fields/roadside/aquatic/wasteland), habit > > (herb/shrub/tree/climber), approximate size/height, size of leaves, > diameter > > of flower and inflorescence, length of flower and inflorescence, colour > of > > flower, fruit size. > > > > Besides the Plant for identification should have at least three > photographs > > for better identification: a photograph of twig so that leaves > (especially > > position and type), flower/inflorescence are visible, a close up of side > of > > flower from side so that bract (if present), pedicel (if present), calyx > and > > corolla are visible, and a close up from top to see diameter, petals, > > stamens and carpels. A fruit photograph additionally should help a lot. > > > > As we have seen recently, the most convenient way to keep a record of > the > > size (flower, leaf, fruit, etc) is to keep it on your fingers and > > photograph. This will help a lot in future to compile information about > > sizes. > > > > -- > > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > > Retired Associate Professor > > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >
