Dear Dineshji Vaze kelkar college from Mulund are doing a lot of work on Patchouli. The extracts are used as base in ferfume industry S.H. Kelkar. Will try to get info. Time is great contrin. Let me see. Can the photos be sent to me again? Have missed them. Madhuri Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone from !DEA
-----Original Message----- From: Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:28:18 To: Aarti S. Khale<[email protected]> Cc: efloraofindia<[email protected]> Subject: [efloraofindia:105386] Re: DV :: 29DEC12 - 0143 :: P ogostemon ¿ cablin / heyneanus ? at a spice farm, Goa Anticipating at least some one from our group is acquainted with *Patchouli* . Regards. Dinesh On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: > Not oregano, Aarti ji. Though not familiar with oregano plants, looked up > for other names of oregano, to check for patchouli. > The plants of oregano look different from the posted one, to me. > > Patchouli - the true patchouli is *Pogostemon cablin* (and its > varieties), native of Phillippines, Malaysia and cultivated elsewhere. > There is false patchouli (inferior to true in terms of the properties of > oil) - also known as Java patchouli OR Indian patchouli - Pogostemon > heyneanus, native to India, Sri Lanka and s-e Asia; cultivated elsewhere. > > If the guide's information is incorrect, yet this plant is most likely > some species of *Pogostemon*. > > Regards. > Dinesh > > > > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Aarti S. Khale <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Dinesh ji, >> I'm not a botany expert but can this be Oregano by anty chance? >> Since you mentioned Spice Plantation, a wild guess. >> Aarti >> >> On Jan 25, 8:09 pm, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Dear friends ... ID please. >> > *Place*: at Tropical Spice Plantation (~ 350 ft asl), Ponda, Goa. >> > *Time*: December 29, 2011 at 1.43pm >> > *Habit*: herb, about 3 ft high >> > *Habitat*: cultivated in a spice farm >> > >> > The guide at the spice farm gave the name *patchouli* - surprisingly was >> > not aware of the scientific name. >> > >> > Regards. >> > >> > P1490327.jpg >> > 141KViewDownload >> > >> > P1490315.jpg >> > 179KViewDownload >> > >> > P1490317.jpg >> > 116KViewDownload >> > >> > P1490320.jpg >> > 118KViewDownload >> > >> > P1490326.jpg >> > 131KViewDownload > > >
