Thank you Dr. Raju ji for sharing your interesting experiences and valuable information on plants/floristics.
Regards Vijayasankar Raman National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Datla CS Raju <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:57 AM Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:120756] Req. for ID 01.07.2012 To: Vijayasankar <[email protected]> Gomphrena globosa as well as Alternathera were studied critically by Prof.CR Babu in 68-70.the mss used by Miss Das? for her Doctoral thesis.Gomphrena is known as Bogota Flower(Telugu Bogoda Banthi puvvulu, like Chili kada Dumpalu for Sweet potato from Chile )these were first introduced at Samalkota where Roxburgh and Koenig made beginnings of botany in colonial India.There was no single Univesity in America then. Both myself and Babu used to walk from Andul Rd and we found all species including A.philoxerodes which soldin bazar as vgetable and Cinchona ledgeriana just near pinetum Very few in the botanical world know that Sir George King was successful in growing Oryza coarctaa-marine rice relative ,these wee displayed at intentional Conference on Genetics by me.Ronald Ross1st Nobel laurate in Science/Medicine himselfworked in Hyderabad and Kolakata where quinine tablets were produced in Indian Museum.Prof SM Walters my good friend was so happy to be with me and Dr MPNayar,DrThothathri at that time.Dr Ayensu a friend of Dr Nayar at London had madrasi lunch in my house close to Grarden.-! On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Vijayasankar <[email protected]>wrote: > It is *Gomphrena serrata *of Amaranthaceae. Its popular name *G. > decumbens *is now a synonym. > > Regards > > Vijayasankar Raman > National Center for Natural Products Research > University of Mississippi > > > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Giby Kuriakose > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Could be a species of *Alternanthera *of Amaranthaceae family. >> >> >> Regards, >> Giby >> >> >> >> >> On 1 July 2012 23:43, ayush <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Request for ID >>> >>> Photos taken on 1.7.2012 at Chennai suborban >>> >>> Regards >>> D. Radha Krishna Reddy >>> Chennai >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> GIBY KURIAKOSE PhD >> Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), >> Royal Enclave, >> Jakkur Post, Srirampura >> Bangalore- 560064 >> India >> Phone - +91 9448714856 +919947109987 (Mobile) >> visit my pictures @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/giby >> > >
