---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter Boyce <[email protected]> Date: 29 December 2012 14:54 Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:141183] Wild Alocasia sp. 1 (?) from Kamrup district, Assam To: jmgarg1 <[email protected]> Cc: efloraofindia <[email protected]>, Karuna Das < [email protected]>, Pudji Widodo <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], Peter Matthews <[email protected]>
Dear Dr Karuna, Almost certainly *Colocasia affinis* Schott, but as with the *Alocasia* would need to see an inflorescence (and of course the fertile portions of the spadix), to be certain. I have forwarded my reply and will forward your original email to Peter Matthews, *the* world expert on the genus *Colocasia* Best Peter Boyce On 29 December 2012 14:23, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. > > Some earlier relevant feedback: > > Dear Karuna Ji, > To me, it is a kind of Colocasia. Although the middle of the leaves are > whitish, I think it is *Colocasia esculenta. > *Regards, > Pudji Widodo > efi site link: > > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/ar/araceae/colocasia/colocasia-esculenta > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Karuna Das <[email protected]> > Date: 23 December 2012 14:59 > Subject: [efloraofindia:141183] Wild Alocasia sp. 1 (?) from Kamrup > district, Assam > To: indiantreepix <[email protected]> > Cc: kd_dkc <[email protected]> > > > Dear All, > Attached images are *Wild **Alocasia sp.(?)* growing on hilly area > near stream. Please ID for it. > Date : 21.12.2012****** > Location: Kamrup district, Assam > Family : *Araceae* > Genus & species : *Alocasia Sp.* (?) > Habitat: Grows wild on hill near stream > Habit :Herb > Flower : Not seen > Fruits :not seen > > > With regards > > Karuna Kanta Das**** > > Guwahati 781012**** > **** > > > <http://sigads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/click_nx.ads/www.rediffmail.com/signatureline.htm@Middle?> > Catch India as it happens with the *Rediff News App*. To download it for > FREE, click > here<http://track.rediff.com/click?url=___http://www.rediff.com/newsapp___&lnk=signature&newservice=newsapp> > > -- > > > > > > > -- > 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 2015 members & > 1,39,500 messages on 30/11/12) 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 2015 members & 1,39,500 messages on 30/11/12) 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'. --
