Forwarding pl. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <[email protected]> Date: 10 April 2012 09:00 Subject: upcoming Citrus week To: [email protected]
Dear J.M. Garg, I stumbled upon an old discussion string regarding Citrus in general and Mosambi in particular. In the past few months I have made much progress towards my own "de-confusion" or clarification of mind. I think that, as far as names are concerned, I can bring a little leadership in the coming Citrus week. I would suggest first that whenever a name is mentioned, at the very least its original location should be mentioned, its corresponding name in script (as opposed to the ever misleading romanised version) should be given, and if possible the matching botanical name. I can provide much of what would be missing but we may wish to limit ourselves to short lists. At this point it is not helpful to check my MMPND pages on "Sorting Citrus names" but I will mention when a more reliable string of names is being posted on that site. I truely believe that our discussion group has the potential to sort most of the nomenclatural confusion in regards to Citrus. It may take more than a week though, especially if people send a lot of photos. 2 examples of resolved names in Bengali and Hindi: মোসাম্বি (Mōsāmbi) -> *Citrus* × *sinensis *(L.) Osbeck 'Mosambi' मौसम्बी Mausambee -> *Citrus sinensis* (L.) Osbeck (*Navel* Group) -> *Citrus* × *sinensis *(L.) Osbeck 'Mosambi' This simply proves that one has to look further down than the generic level in order to clarify the vernacular, especially when dealing with cultivated food plants. Anyhow feel free to pass this on to whomever. Thanks KInd regards Michel -- With regards, J.M.Garg 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 1840 members & 1,10,000 messages on 31/3/12) 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'.
