Hi, Bhagyashri ji, Wikipedia link should have been given while quoting inf. from there. Pl. follow it. On 28 January 2012 09:49, A. Daman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dr Bhagyashri Ranade / Madhuri Raut, > > Would you object to revealing and acknowledging the true sources from > where you have copied this information and signed with your own name? > > This negligence on your part is particularly unjustifiable in light of > what you have pledged just a couple of days earlier. On the 26th of Jan., > 2012, you wrote: "I will surely cite all the references for the information > I write in my future posts". > > There is nothing in this information that is authored by Dr B. Ranade / > Madhuri Raut. In fact, the bulk of the data in her message has been copied > *verbatim et literatim* from Wikipedia. And the Wikipedia contributors > have indeed footnoted the data with due acknowledgment of the references. > > Aggie Daman > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Madhuri Raut <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 8th Jan 2012 >> >> sharing images of Plumbago zeylanica growing wild outside a closed >> bungalow at Pune >> >> Family Plumbaginaceae >> >> Flowers are white, in terminal elongated spikes. Calyx densely covered >> with stalked, sticky glands. The calyx has glandular trichomes (hairs), >> which secrete a sticky mucilage that is capable of trapping and killing >> insects; it is unclear what the purpose of these trichomes is; protection >> from pollination by way of "crawlers" (ants and other insects that >> typically do not transfer pollen between individual plants), or possible >> protocarnivory. Glandular trichomes structurally resemble the tentacles of >> Drosera and Drosophyllum. Capsules are oblong contained in a glandular >> persisitent calyx >> -- >> Regards >> Dr.Bhagyashri Ranade >> > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg ([email protected]) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1760 members & 1,00,000 messages on 21/12/11) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 6000 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'.
