A reply: "Usha di's comments are pertinent. Zinnias are from Mexico and Southern United States. I donot think there are any wild zinnias in India. Probably the zinnias found in wild could be garden escapes. Nevertheless, I need to be educated on this aspect." from Mahadeswara ji.
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 1:51 PM, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id assistance please. > > Some earlier relevant feedback: > > nice to see > have these been studied, classified? > i am sure they must be, so any body have references? > please > thanks > these look very different from te flowers called wild zinnia and desert > wild zinnnia in Southern states USA... one of them is zinnia grandiflora if > I remember (texan one) > how about the indian wild zinnias? > did they evolve independently etc etc... > usha di > > Aren't these* Zinnia elegans? > * > Pudji Widodo > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Narendra Joshi <[email protected]> > Date: 3 October 2012 10:21 > Subject: [efloraofindia:133482] KAS Week::(Wild Zinnia-03/10/2012-NJ) > To: indiantreepix <[email protected]> > > > Wild Zinnias found on the way to kas. Mostly seen in the month of October. > Many varieties are seen on the fort Ajinkyatara also. > > -- > With Regards, > Narendra Joshi > > -- > > > > > > > -- > 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 1980 members & > 1,33,000 messages on 30/9/12) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of > more than 7500 species). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > On 21 October 2012 13:51, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id assistance please. > > Some earlier relevant feedback: > > nice to see > have these been studied, classified? > i am sure they must be, so any body have references? > please > thanks > these look very different from te flowers called wild zinnia and desert > wild zinnnia in Southern states USA... one of them is zinnia grandiflora if > I remember (texan one) > how about the indian wild zinnias? > did they evolve independently etc etc... > usha di > > Aren't these* Zinnia elegans? > * > Pudji Widodo > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Narendra Joshi <[email protected]> > Date: 3 October 2012 10:21 > Subject: [efloraofindia:133482] KAS Week::(Wild Zinnia-03/10/2012-NJ) > To: indiantreepix <[email protected]> > > > Wild Zinnias found on the way to kas. Mostly seen in the month of October. > Many varieties are seen on the fort Ajinkyatara also. > > -- > With Regards, > Narendra Joshi > > -- > > > > > > > -- > 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 1980 members & > 1,33,000 messages on 30/9/12) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database > of more than 7500 species). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > -- 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 1980 members & 1,33,000 messages on 30/9/12) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 7500 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. --
