This original post is of 25th Jan 2012. I also request Bhagyashree ji to acknowledge the source of information. I am sure this might have happened due to ignorance.
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 9:26 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > 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'. > > -- Dr Satish Phadke
