Good luck Usha di from me too! Aarti On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:52 AM, ushadi Micromini <[email protected] > wrote:
> me too. aarti, i want to know what it is... i had a lot of false leads > while I tried very long to id it based on a few books I have ... > > yes and the difference is important to know so one can start looking in > the correct files and books and classifications... > > good luck to us ... > > usha di > > > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Aarti S. Khale <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Usha di, >> Thanks for pointing out the difference. >> I will remember in future. >> Hope someone can id this for me. >> Regards, >> Aarti >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:04 AM, ushadi Micromini < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> AARTI: >>> >>> Euphorbia and cacti are two different animals... ([?]) >>> >>> they arise in different continents >>> they either have ( euphorbia) or not have (cacti) milky sap... >>> ( that sap is often pro-inflammaotory or downright deadly)... >>> >>> the thorns are not truly arising out of a specific organ on the skin of >>> the green bark... >>> often its an appendage to leaf... as in this plant you have >>> >>> in cacti they are specific areas called areoles on the skin of the cacti >>> that give rise to the thorns ... >>> and I personally would like to think that the cacti thorns are very >>> symmetrically arranged , even invoking the sunflower mathematical model of >>> design... related to the sacred geometry... >>> >>> euphorbias that I have ... can have symmetrically placed thorns but no >>> real mathematical modelling that I have seen... >>> >>> most important is the sap... >>> the sap in some euphorbias have been used in AYURVEDIC medicine as >>> source of strong alkali capable of cutting thru (slowly albeit) scarred >>> walls of abscess etc... >>> >>> Your euphorbia seems to be .... I wish I knew >>> >>> Hopefully somebody would >>> I typed tis thrre days ago ... saved it in draft hoping someone would >>> over the week end... but... may be they are busy with diwqali prepn... >>> >>> Usha di >>> = >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Aarti S. Khale >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> A cactus seen on 26/1/2009 in Nairobi, Kenya. >>>> Height was about 6-8 feet. >>>> It was really amazing to see a Sunbird make a nest in the prickles. >>>> Id please. >>>> Aarti >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Usha di >>> =========== >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Usha di > =========== > > --
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