Incomparable close up Sir. both the images are really eye catching. This is also my passion on how to take more snaps of common plants through my lens which i learn from you. Agreed with Balkar Sir, Picture of the Year.
regards Prasad On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Balkar Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Lovely Shots Sir, really picture of the year!!!! > > > On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Two years back I had uploaded an insignificant flower of Bauhinia >> roxburghiana that looked great after close up was seen under magnification. >> This year while waiting for Cable car tickets at Gulmarg I strolled into >> the forest to find an interesting looking, though not very attractive >> plant, that I knew was Aconitum. Only after I sat to process my photographs >> and I identified it that I was impressed by great architecture of its dull >> looking flowers, and subsequently identified it as Aconitum heterophyllum >> Wall. ex Royle, the Atis Root plant and a very important medicinal plant. >> Roots yield a number of alkaloids such as atisine, heteratisine, >> histisine, heterophyllisine, heterophylline, heterophyllidine, atidine, >> hetidine, benzotheteratisine, F-dihydroatisine, and hetisinone. Plant is >> considered as valuable febrifuge and bitter tonic. Roots are also used for >> hysteria, throat infections, dyspepsia and vomiting, abdominal pain and >> diabetes. >> It purifies blood and also acts as anti-inflammatory agent. It decreases >> fever and also cures malarial fever. >> >> I am uploading two photographs of this useful plant. >> >> -- >> 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/ >> >> > > > -- > Regards > > Dr Balkar Singh > Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology > Arya P G College, Panipat > Haryana-132103 > 09416262964 > -- Prasad Kumar Dash Ecologist, Orissa, India email: [email protected] ph. 09437444241
