Thank you Prashant ji and Gurcharan ji for your appreciation . Daman ji I will surely cite all the references for the information I write in my future posts. Thank you for giving the references for this post.
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 3:59 PM, A. Daman <[email protected]> wrote: > Respected members, > > I am a silent reader of this group and enjoy learning about Indian flora > here. Although I have mentioned this once before, I feel compelled > to reiterate my displeasure at the slack attitude of the scientific > community vis-à-vis citation of sources. > > An uninformed, gullible reader could easily be misled into believing that > Dr Bhagyashri Ranade (/ Madhuri Raut) is the author of the text in her > email. In fact, the "detailed information" posted by her has clearly > been copied from various sources with nary a credit or acknowledgment. > > The first sentence, "*blooms are conical ... greenish bract*", has been > copied from Matt Glenn's site: > http://www.easybloom.com/plantlibrary/plant/peace-lily-1 > > The next two sentences, "*an individual flower consist(s) of a central > female structure ... when they are actually producing pollen*", have > been copied from the fifth paragraph under the subhead "That beautiful > spathe. Is it really a flower?" on this site: > http://www.exoticrainforest.com/Spathiphyllum%20Clevelandii%20%20pc.htm > > The next two sentences, "*Flowering lasts 9 to 12 days ... all over the > spadix during the male phase*", have been copied from the penultimate > paragraph of Todd Boland's article 'Peace Lily Revisited': > http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/1953/ > > The next four sentences, "*The female flowers open first ... attracted to > the flowers by their odour*", have been lifted from the antepenultimate > paragraph of the aforementioned source, and the following sentence, "*In > the morning hours ... soap-like fragrance*", from the penultimate > paragraph of the same source. > > The next sentence, "*The flowers turn green ... and seed has been set*", > appears > in the comment posted by Aboutflowers.com [dated August 2010] on this site: > http://www.aboutflowers.com/flower-a-plant-information-and-photos/plants/spathiphyllum.html > > The last two sentences, "*The fruit and its seeds ripen ... becomes soft > and yellow*", have been copied from the final two paragraphs of Phoebe > Strauss' article on this site: > http://www.ehow.com/how_7994524_seeds-peace-lily-ripe.html > > I strongly disapprove of such misappropriation. Anybody who can exert the > effort to indulge in such a copy-paste operation would certainly be capable > of citing the source without breaking a sweat. > > I believe a group such as this ought to seriously focus on improving the > essential credibility of the scientific interaction it hosts. > > With regards, Aggie Daman > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Madhuri Raut <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dec 2011 and Jan 2012 >> >> Sharing images of Spathiphyllum wallisii at a private society at Pune >> >> Family Araceae >> >> Common name Peace lily >> >> Blooms are conical clumps of small flowers borne on a stalk surrounded by >> a large white or greenish bract. An individual flower consists of a >> central female structure with a stigma at its center and several male >> flowers surrounding that stigma. These male flowers are difficult to >> observe except during male anthesis when they are actually producing >> pollen. Flowering lasts 9 to 12 days (although the attractive white spathe >> may be evident for weeks), with the female phase lasting 4 to 5 days, >> followed immediately by the male phase of 4 to 6 days. Pollen is >> continuously produced all over the spadix during the male phase. The female >> flowers open first (i.e., are receptive to pollen) and after a period of >> time, ‘close'. Once closed the males open to release pollen. This delay >> between male and female flowers prevents self-pollination. Pollination is >> mostly via flies, bees or beetles that are attracted to the flowers by >> their odour. In the morning hours, plants produce a spicy to soap-like >> fragrance >> >> The flowers turn green when they have been pollinated and seed has been >> set. The fruit and its seeds ripen four to six months after pollination.When >> ripe the spadix becomes soft and yellow >> -- >> Regards >> Dr.Bhagyashri Ranade >> > > -- Regards Dr.Bhagyashri Ranade
