Responding to the query: (1) is this native of the mediterranean islands? No. This is native of peninsular India and Sri Lanka.
Regards, Dinesh On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:20 AM, ushadi Micromini <[email protected]>wrote: > Interesting discussion... > 1: is this native of the mediterranean islands? since the website link is > from univ in the tiny island... > > 2: the pictures of their garden's samples seem several years old... > do they grow that big in KAS or in the western ghats... ie comfortable for > a few years? > or do they get eaten by goats etc and are seen small specimen only? > > or are they newly naturalized "weeds" ??? > > sorry asked a lot of questions and may be some Maharashtra college > botanists/ecologists / forest dept would have these aswwers ... > > usha di > == > > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Euphorbia laeta B Heyne ex Roth. (1821) can't be the correct name for two >> reasons >> 1. It is an illegitimate name being a later homonym of E. laeta Aiton >> (1789), a totally different species now considered as synonym of Euphorbia >> dendroides L. >> >> http://herbarivirtual.uib.es/cat-med/especie/4468.html >> >> This is another example of confusions we land into when not citing the >> authors. I found numerous entries on the web of this plant, with two as >> synonyms and none citing the authority. >> >> E. rothiana Spreng should thus be taken as correct name and Euphorbia >> laeta B. Heyne ex Roth as synonym. >> >> -- >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Retired Associate Professor >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >> http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> BSI Flora of Maharashtra and FOS mentions this as *Euphorbia laeta. >>> *Family : Euphorbiaceae. >>> Syn. *Euphorbia rothiana* >>> Dr Satish Phadke >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> [image: ... Kas >>>> skyline]<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F8035015844%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzcDVdj__6tKTqSABRfvEGMun25Rew> >>>> Kas >>>> plateau ... about 4000 ft asl >>>> ... one of the 39 World Heritage sites in the Western Ghats of India >>>> ------------------------------ >>>> 19 OCT 07 >>>> * Euphorbia rothiana * Spreng. ... (family: Euphorbiaceae) >>>> *yoo-FOR-bee-uh* -- named for *Euphorbus*, Greek physician to Juba II >>>> ... Dave's >>>> Botanary<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fdavesgarden.com%2Fguides%2Fbotanary%2Fsearch.php%3Fsearch_text%3DEuphorbia&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzcB4PSD5iKKcxl13f1AoQkn8DcwUw> >>>> *roth-ee-AY-nuh* -- named for Dr A W >>>> Roth<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAlbrecht_Wilhelm_Roth&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzcr5mL4hrQvDWMnT1nzAP6xh0d3pw>, >>>> a German botanist ... >>>> ‡<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.archive.org%2Fstream%2Fvernacularlistof00lush%2Fvernacularlistof00lush_djvu.txt&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzfto3zwZ-WPoVWmxbCgs1gKlnCegA> >>>> >>>> *commonly known as*: common hill spurge • *Marathi*: दुधी dudhi >>>> >>>> *Native to*: peninsular India, Sri Lanka >>>> >>>> *References*: Flowers of >>>> India<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flowersofindia.net%2Fcatalog%2Fslides%2FCommon%2520Hill%2520Spurge.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzfVHm-XYLB3aZGX9bNwG9NesLx4ZQ>• >>>> *Flowers of Sahyadri* by Shrikant Ingalhalikar >>>> [image: Euphorbia rothiana >>>> Spreng.]<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F1653198487%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzdip2FONYlx1nT-hcRpfvtRipaxjA> >>>> >>>> [image: Dudhi (Marathi: >>>> दुधी)]<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F1653453777%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzdcPLnJ0wE-GjrAS5ExLiIZbnuqYw> >>>> [image: >>>> Euphorbia rothiana >>>> Spreng.]<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F1654680850%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzc42_CIimOffkt2idnRyXHwRhjDxw> >>>> Regards. >>>> Dinesh >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Usha di > =========== > > --
