Dear All: it seems murraya paniculata and m. exotixca is a hot issue... for what reason... I am not exactly sure... but it would be an easy test case to resolve... since it grows every where in indian gardens and woods apprantly... every body reconises it and has a story about it... its easy to look after nd follow... in a thread that went on and on... I hhad proposed the following ... but it got buried in the rest of the arguments... so I am posting what I said there here in an independent thread so that this proposal may get and independent airing... free of previous threads interpersonality discourse...
its a purely scientific endeavor.... lets start thinking.. at the end what may emerge will /may be totally different from what I wrote... that's ok too... Usha di: I quote myself from that thread: " Dear all: one thing I learned from studying cancer .... which is also a study of structure, biology behaviour... one thing I learned: is that we should try to keep an open mind... things may turn out to be quite different and may surprise the heck out of the learned minds, sometimes... nothing is written in stone... none of these floras.. or hortuses or whoever... went on the mountain and returned with a burning bush... these are not commandments from god... merely guidelines made by experts from some local university groups or botanical gardens, they study hard and make deductions BUT what they say should sometimes be taken as a guideline and not a commandment... I am sure they never came to India and saw these murraya plants in action... may be it behooves someone/ one two a few ... from our group to do that... somewhere in this thread I had even agreed to collect specimen and preserve and send for genetic analysis if someone was interested... or had the grant monies and lab equipment and grad students to do the research.... so lets not fight ... but do something constructive... may be we should have a Murraya panniculata week.... once every 3 months, that will cover the entire year's worth of the plants behaviour... leaf only, leaf and flowering stage, fruiting stage and dormancy in deep winter... which would perhaps be different in different parts of India... where people will take pictures in Prescribed format, with rulers /// and collect twigs, plant material fruits... etc... and press herbarium specimen... from all states of India.... and may be ceylon ... kamini grows there too... LETS THINK ABOUT THIS.... USHA di " end quote.... this was in this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/4eb0079f406077a2/df754f7be0e99bfa?lnk=raot#df754f7be0e99bfa Thank you Usha di ======================================
