date:20110105

Re: [efloraofindia:0] Request for ID : 050111 : AK-2

2011-01-05 Thread Pankaj Kumar

This could be Ficus jacquinifolia
Pankaj


On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Aarti S. Khale aarti.kh...@gmail.com wrote:
 Taken at Muscat, Sultanate of Oman in one of the gardens on the 12th
 of November, 2010.
 A garden plant in the form of a small bush.
 Is it Ficus?
 Aarti




-- 
***
TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!


Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae)
Research Associate
Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project
Department of Habitat Ecology
Wildlife Institute of India
Post Box # 18
Dehradun - 248001, India

Re: [efloraofindia:59278] Fruits Vegetables Week: RVS-8

2011-01-05 Thread Muthu Karthick

I think this plant grows only in high altitudes.
The Tamil word, 'Seemai-kathirikai' means Country-brinjal


On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com wrote:

 I knew it as Chayote squash as sold in American markets. I have seen in in
 Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri, sold as squash but never heard the name Bengal
 Brinjal. Markets here in california also sell a spiny cultivar known as
 Espinoda


 --
 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/



 On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:53 PM, tanay bose tanaybos...@gmail.com wrote:

 Very common in Northeastern hills
 tanay

 On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Muthu Karthick nmk@gmail.com wrote:


 This Tropical American plant is called as 'Seema-Kathirikkai, Chow-chow'
 in Tamil.

 On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Vijayasankar 
 vijay.botan...@gmail.comwrote:

 Called as 'Bangalore Brinjal'. Commonly cultivated for its vegetable
 fruits.


 Regards

 
 Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D.
 Post Doctoral Research Associate
 National Center for Natural Products Research
 Thad Cochran Research Center
 University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 38677
 Phone: +1 662 915 1018




 --
 Muthu Karthick, N
 Junior Research Fellow
 Care Earth Trust
 #15, second main road,
 Thillai ganga nagar,
 Chennai - 600 061
 Mob: 09626833911
 www.careearthtrust.org




 --
 *Tanay Bose*
 Research Assistant  Teaching Assistant.
 Department of Botany.
 University of British Columbia .
 3529-6270 University Blvd.
 Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada)
 Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile)
604-822-2019 (Lab)
604-822-6089  (Fax)
 ta...@interchange.ubc.ca




  --
 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/




-- 
Muthu Karthick, N
Junior Research Fellow
Care Earth Trust
#15, second main road,
Thillai ganga nagar,
Chennai - 600 061
Mob: 09626833911
www.careearthtrust.org

[efloraofindia:59279] Re: Fruits Vegetables Week: RVS-13

2011-01-05 Thread harithasandhya

Indian Pennywort.
Called kodangal in Malayalam. We too cook a couple of delicious dishes
with it including a curry with buttermilk and coconut.
Regards,
Sandhya

On Jan 5, 9:40 am, Vijayasankar vijay.botan...@gmail.com wrote:
 I like the 'keerai kuzhambu' made out of these leaves. It tastes good with
 rice. As you know, it is also a popular medicinal plant used as memory
 tonic. Known as 'Vallaarai' in Tamil.

 Regards

 
 Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D.
 Post Doctoral Research Associate
 National Center for Natural Products Research
 Thad Cochran Research Center
 University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 38677
 Phone: +1 662 915 1018

  centella asiatica_1.JPG
 162KViewDownload

Fwd: [efloraofindia:59280] Efloraofindia Database upto 15th Dec.'10 (MS Excel, 14.8 MB)- around 4450 species

2011-01-05 Thread Vedprakash Singh

Terrific effort Garg Ji  all the participants  members from far flung
parts of the globe  ..only fertile brain compounded with a 'sharing
nature' yield such a selfless work.

V P Singh
Nagpur



-- Forwarded message --
From: J.M. Garg jmga...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:09 PM
Subject: [efloraofindia:59274] Efloraofindia Database upto 15th Dec.'10 (MS
Excel, 14.8 MB)- around 4450 species
To: efloraofindia indiantreepix@googlegroups.com


Dear members,

It's heartening to state again that *Efloraofindia is the largest google
e-group in the world *in this field  the largest nature related e-group
(and the most constructive) in India with more than 59,000 messages so far
(unprecedented in Indian e-group history)  membership currently more than
1490 nos. *We had 32,765 messages in 2010 alone- around 56% messages so far
in Efloraofindia's history of around three years  seven months.* Most of
the groups didn't get so many messages in their lifetime.

The Efloraofindia Database upto 15th Dec.'10 (MS Excel, 14.8 MB) is finally
ready  has around 4450 species. You may download it at any time from home
page at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix

Intent of this database is compilation of all the posts so that it’s useful
to all concerned as all the data about a particular species will be
available under a single row  easily searchable. However, correctness of
data/ identification is dependent on the members’ inputs in a particular
post. Therefore, Errors/ mistakes cannot be ruled out- all are requested to
point them out for corrections.

This file contains all the plants discussed at Efloraofindia, for you to
peruse offline/ online  is very useful for reference. Try *Edit » Find* to
search any word / name in this database. It is alphabetically arranged by
botanical name, with relevant synonyms. Useful links are put along with
Efloraofindia links. The spreadsheet can be manipulated in any manner. For
example, one can sort the plants family wise as family names are given in a
separate column.

*The regional names* of the plants are continuously added thanks to Dinesh
ji, Tabish ji etc. All members are encouraged to share the names in their
languages -- these are just as important as botanical name of the plant.

*Special articles* like 'PICKING SEEDS', 'My Dream Garden' etc.  *unidentified
plants* are being put at the end of the Database starting with Zz Unided
- Any feedback about these unidentified plants is always welcome.

I request all members to provide date  place upto state level (so that
flowering data can be incorporated in the Database)  also follow the
posting guidelines along with format for Id requests.

*Kudos to the moderators, experts  other members who are rendering selfless
service on the group!*

I thank all the experts  members, who have made this endeavor possible for
the benefit of everyone.
-- 
With regards,
J.M.Garg (jmga...@gmail.com)
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 liberal licensing conditions attached with each image.
For identification, learning, discussion  documentation of Indian Flora,
please visit/ join our Google e-group- Efloraofindia:
http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1475 members 
57,000 messages on 16/12/10  with a database of around 4400 species on
30/11/10)

Re: [efloraofindia:59281] Fruits Vegetables :: Indian Gooseberry :030111:AK-7

2011-01-05 Thread Muthu Karthick

This might be a hybrid cultivar.

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 1:02 PM, tanay bose tanaybos...@gmail.com wrote:

 nice close up
 tanay


 On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Aarti S. Khale aarti.kh...@gmail.comwrote:

 Indian Gooseberry or Amla at Delhi.
 Aarti




 --
 *Tanay Bose*
 Research Assistant  Teaching Assistant.
 Department of Botany.
 University of British Columbia .
 3529-6270 University Blvd.
 Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada)
 Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile)
 604-822-2019 (Lab)
 ta...@interchange.ubc.ca




-- 
Muthu Karthick, N
Junior Research Fellow
Care Earth Trust
#15, second main road,
Thillai ganga nagar,
Chennai - 600 061
Mob: 09626833911
www.careearthtrust.org

Re: [efloraofindia:59282] fruits vegetables :: NAT IVE, WILD, CULTIVATED :: Arecaceae » Borassus flabellifer

2011-01-05 Thread Muthu Karthick

The timber is used for rafters; leaf-base fibre is used as brushes, etc
1,20,000litres of toddy is produced by a single tree in its lifetime; ripe
fruits are eaten roasted.

There are as many as *801 *uses are recorded for this Palmyra palm in an old
Tamil song, as quoted by D.J.Mabberley. I would be happier if anyone of you
here knew that Tamil literature.

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:08 PM, mani nair mani.na...@gmail.com wrote:

 The toddy is made from this palm.
 Regards,
 Mani.

 On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Dinesh Valke dinesh.va...@gmail.comwrote:

 Arecaceae (palm family) » *Borassus flabellifer*
 *Synonym*: *Borassus flabelliformis*


 *bor-RAS-us* -- from the Greek *borassos*, referring to the date palm's
 flower spike
 *fla-BEL-lif-er* -- fan-bearing, referring to the leaf


 *commonly known as*: African fan palm, borassus palm, doub palm, great
 fan palm, lontar palm, palmyra palm, ron palm, tala palm, tal-palm, toddy
 palm, wine palm • Bengali: তাল taala • Gujarati: તાડ taad • Hindi: ताड़
 taada, ताल tala, त्रृणराज trinaraaj • Kannada: ಓಲೆಗರಿ olegari, ತಾಳೆಗರಿ
 taalegari, ತಾಟಿನಿಮ್ಗು taatinimgu • Konkani: इरोळ eroal • Malayalam: കരിമ്പന
 karimpana • Marathi: ताड taada • Sanskrit: महातः mahatah, तलः or तालः talah,
 तन्तुनिर्यासः tantuniyosah, तृणम्केतुः tranam-ketuh, तृणम्राजः tranam-raj,
 तृणम् इन्द्रः trnam-indrah• Tamil: பனை panai • Telugu: తాటి చెట్టు
 tatichettu • Urdu: تاڙ taad



 *Native to*: tropical Asia


 *Edible use*:

 ... peeled seedlings as FRUIT ... are eaten fresh
 ... young plants are cooked as a VEGETABLE or roasted and pounded to make
 meal

 ... When the crown of the tree is removed, the segment from which the
 leaves grow out is an edible cake.

 Quoted from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borassus_flabellifer



 *some facts*:

 ... can live 100 years or more (yet fruit) ... 
 Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borassus_flabellifer



 *Symbolic status*:

 State Tree of Tamil Nadu, India





-- 
Muthu Karthick, N
Junior Research Fellow
Care Earth Trust
#15, second main road,
Thillai ganga nagar,
Chennai - 600 061
Mob: 09626833911
www.careearthtrust.org

Re: [efloraofindia:59283] Re: fruits vegetables :: NATURALIZED, WILD / CULTIVATED :: Elaeocarpaceae » Munting ia calabura

2011-01-05 Thread Muthu Karthick

This fruit [singapore cherry] is really delicious.
Tamil name: 'Thean poosani' means Honey-cucurbit


On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Aarti S. Khale aarti.kh...@gmail.comwrote:

 Dinesh ji,
 Some ripe cherries from our garden at Nasik, Maharashtra.
 Aarti

 
 
 
  -- Forwarded message --
  From: Dinesh Valke dinesh.va...@gmail.com
  Date: Jan 2, 11:39 pm
  Subject: fruits  vegetables :: NATURALIZED, WILD / CULTIVATED ::
  Elaeocarpaceae » Muntingia calabura
  To: efloraofindia
 
 
  Elaeocarpaceae (Jamaica cherry family) » *Muntingia calabura*
 
  *mun-TING-ee-uh* -- named after Dutch botanist Abraham Munting
  (1626-1683)
  ¿ *kal-LAH-bur-rah* ? -- perhaps derived from West Indian vernacular
  name
  for another plant
 
  *commonly known as*: calabura, cotton candy berry, jam tree, Jamaica
  cherry,
  Panama cherry, strawberry tree
 
  *Native to*: tropical America, Pacific islands; naturalized or
  cultivated
  elsewhere
 
  *Edible use*:
 
  ... ripe fruits (as FRUIT) ... cherries are very sweet and taste similar
  to
  cotton candy ... Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muntingia
 
  ... in the Philippines and Indonesia the fruits are usually eaten
  mostly by
 
 
 
  children although it is not sold in markets ...
  Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muntingia... perhaps applies to
  India too.
 
 
 
   2059523725_13222d3783_b.jpg
  45KViewDownload
 
   318370528_60e9d04007_b.jpg
  70KViewDownload
 
   445205272_edbd8eeed2_b.jpg
  48KViewDownload
 
   460087465_213624579d_b.jpg
  73KViewDownload
 
   1026263132_922cc89546_b.jpg
  145KViewDownload- Hide quoted text -
 
  - Show quoted text -




-- 
Muthu Karthick, N
Junior Research Fellow
Care Earth Trust
#15, second main road,
Thillai ganga nagar,
Chennai - 600 061
Mob: 09626833911
www.careearthtrust.org

[efloraofindia:59284] Re: Fruits Vegetables Week: RVS-9

2011-01-05 Thread harithasandhya

'Manattakkali' in Malayalam. A delicious leafy vegetable.

The fruits can be dipped in curds and salt and then sundried. This
will keep for long time and the sundried fruits can be fried in oil
and used as a sidedish with rice (what we call 'kondattum' in
Malayalam). These fried fruits are also used to make a delicious curry
with tamarind ('rasam').

Regards,
Sandhya

On Jan 5, 10:46 am, tanay bose tanaybos...@gmail.com wrote:
 This is completely new info  for me I didn't knew we could eat S nigrum
 Tanay

 On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Vijayasankar vijay.botan...@gmail.comwrote:

  Solanum nigrum, from Sirumalai hills, TN.
  Ripe fruits edible and the leaves and unripe fruits used as vegetable.
  Regards

  
  Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D.
  Post Doctoral Research Associate
  National Center for Natural Products Research
  Thad Cochran Research Center
  University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 38677
  Phone: +1 662 915 1018

 --
 *Tanay Bose*
 Research Assistant  Teaching Assistant.
 Department of Botany.
 University of British Columbia .
 3529-6270 University Blvd.
 Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada)
 Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile)
            604-822-2019 (Lab)
            604-822-6089  (Fax)
 ta...@interchange.ubc.ca

Re: [efloraofindia:59285] Fruits Vegetable week- Pithecellobium dulce

2011-01-05 Thread Prashant awale

Thanks Pankaj ji for sharing this information.
regards
Prashant

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Pankaj Oudhia pankajoud...@gmail.comwrote:

Not sure whether you have experienced it or not but if you take it in large
amount you will find typical odd smell in urine and by visiting public
urinal during fruiting time, you can guess what users are consuming these
days i.e. Ganga Imli. Very typical odd smell.

Sorry for sharing odd experience.

Let me move one more step. If you collect the urine and spray it on
standing rice crop having infestation of Green Leaf Hopper i.e. Nephotettix
sp., you will find less population of insects in coming days. This basic
solution can be made more effective by adding other herbs. Unique
Traditional Agricultural Knowledge of our country.

In Traditional Healing, our Healers suggest the patients to consume it in
bulk and then urinate on wild annuals. Based on the plant growth affected,
they diagnose the diseases. I have documented this unique knowledge but it
always surprises me as it is not a native species. Not sure the Healers of
countries of its origin are aware of it or not?

regards

Pankaj Oudhia

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Dinesh Valke dinesh.va...@gmail.comwrote:

... very interesting flow of thoughts ... many thanks to everyone.

*NATURALIZED, CULTIVATED* :: Fabaceae/a (pea, or bean family) »
*Pithecellobium
dulce*

*pith-eh-sell-LOH-bee-um* -- from the Greek *pithekos* (ape or monkey)
and *ellobion* (earring)
*DUL-see* or *DUL-say* -- sweet or tender

*commonly known as*: blackbead, camachile tree, madras thorn, manila
tamarind, monkeypod, sweet inga, sweet tamarind • Gujarati: વિલાયતી આંબલી
vilayati ambli • Hindi: ganga imli, जंगल जलेबी jungal jalebi, kataiya •
Kannada: ಸೀಮೆಹುಣಸೆ seeme hunase • Marathi: विलायती चिंच vilayati chinch •
Tamil: கொடுக்காப்புளி kodukkappuli

*Native to*: California through Mexico, Central America, n South America

Re: [efloraofindia:59286] Fruits and Vegetable week: Chinese Guava

2011-01-05 Thread Yazdy Palia

Thank you Tanay ji, I have this fruit tree at our place and was
wondering what its name is?
Regards
Yazdy.

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:48 PM, tanay bose tanaybos...@gmail.com wrote:
 Psidium littorale scientifically
 Tanay

 On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 7:00 AM, cheriyan vj cheriya...@gmail.com wrote:

 Dear All,
 Am attaching for ID. Growing in front of my house. The locals here in
 Coonoor(Altitude: 6000' approx) call it the 'chinese guava '. The fruit is
 3/4 to an inch in dia, flavour similar to guava but sweetish-sour to taste
 with few seeds similar to those of regular guavas. Excellent for making
 Jams/ Marmalades. Has a long fruiting season starting jul/aug carrying on to
 Dec. This year it is still fruiting and an odd flower and young fruits are
 still visible. Likely consequence of the climatic change!
 Regards,
 cheriyan



 --
 Tanay Bose
 Research Assistant  Teaching Assistant.
 Department of Botany.
 University of British Columbia .
 3529-6270 University Blvd.
 Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada)
 Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile)
     604-822-2019 (Lab)
 ta...@interchange.ubc.ca

Re: [efloraofindia:59287] Fruits and Vegetable week: Chinese Guava

2011-01-05 Thread sheetal chaudhari

Good capture



Sheetal

If you look at what you do not have in life, you don't have anything,
If you look at what you have in life, you have everything...



On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Yazdy Palia yazdypa...@gmail.com wrote:

 Thank you Tanay ji, I have this fruit tree at our place and was
 wondering what its name is?
 Regards
 Yazdy.

 On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:48 PM, tanay bose tanaybos...@gmail.com wrote:
  Psidium littorale scientifically
  Tanay
 
  On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 7:00 AM, cheriyan vj cheriya...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  Dear All,
  Am attaching for ID. Growing in front of my house. The locals here in
  Coonoor(Altitude: 6000' approx) call it the 'chinese guava '. The fruit
 is
  3/4 to an inch in dia, flavour similar to guava but sweetish-sour to
 taste
  with few seeds similar to those of regular guavas. Excellent for making
  Jams/ Marmalades. Has a long fruiting season starting jul/aug carrying
 on to
  Dec. This year it is still fruiting and an odd flower and young fruits
 are
  still visible. Likely consequence of the climatic change!
  Regards,
  cheriyan
 
 
 
  --
  Tanay Bose
  Research Assistant  Teaching Assistant.
  Department of Botany.
  University of British Columbia .
  3529-6270 University Blvd.
  Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada)
  Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile)
  604-822-2019 (Lab)
  ta...@interchange.ubc.ca

Re: [efloraofindia:59289] Sesuvium portulacastrum

2011-01-05 Thread Pankaj Kumar

Dear Sheetal,
Nice to see you here. Thanks a lot for contributing and I would really
anticipate your active participation in the group from now onwards :).
Happy posting.
Take care
Pankaj


On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:21 PM, sheetal chaudhari
sheetalbot...@gmail.com wrote:

 Sesuvium portulacastrum
 Family: Aizoaceae (Ice plant family)
 Common name: Shoreline purslane
 Local name: Bhaji cha pala
 Very common in mangrove habitat and is one of the associate mangrove
 species. The fresh green leaves are used by local fishing community to make
 nice garama garam bhajjiyas.

 Regards,
 Sheetal Pachpande
 Research student,
 B. N. Bandodkar college of Science,
 Thane West.





-- 
***
TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!


Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae)
Research Associate
Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project
Department of Habitat Ecology
Wildlife Institute of India
Post Box # 18
Dehradun - 248001, India

Re: [efloraofindia:59290] Sesuvium portulacastrum

2011-01-05 Thread sheetal chaudhari

Thanks Pankaj ji


Regards,

Sheetal Pachpande
Research student,
B. N. Bandodkar college of Science,
Thane West.






On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Pankaj Kumar sahanipan...@gmail.com wrote:

 Dear Sheetal,
 Nice to see you here. Thanks a lot for contributing and I would really
 anticipate your active participation in the group from now onwards :).
 Happy posting.
 Take care
 Pankaj


 On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:21 PM, sheetal chaudhari
 sheetalbot...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Sesuvium portulacastrum
  Family: Aizoaceae (Ice plant family)
  Common name: Shoreline purslane
  Local name: Bhaji cha pala
  Very common in mangrove habitat and is one of the associate mangrove
  species. The fresh green leaves are used by local fishing community to
 make
  nice garama garam bhajjiyas.
 
  Regards,
  Sheetal Pachpande
  Research student,
  B. N. Bandodkar college of Science,
  Thane West.
 
 



 --
 ***
 TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!


 Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae)
 Research Associate
 Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project
 Department of Habitat Ecology
 Wildlife Institute of India
 Post Box # 18
 Dehradun - 248001, India

Re: Fwd: [efloraofindia:59291] Palm tree for ID : 151210-AK-2

2011-01-05 Thread Pudji Widodo

It looks like Borassus flabellifer L.
Pudji Widodo
Fakultas Biologi Universitas Jenderal Soedirman
PURWOKERTO INDONESIA

[efloraofindia:59292] Re: Indonesian Flower

2011-01-05 Thread Pudji Widodo

Thanks a lot Dinesh ji, Vijayasankar ji, Pankaj ji, Anuj ji, Tanay ji,
Mahadeswara ji.

Best Wishes
Pudji Widodo

[efloraofindia:59293] Re: Fwd: IMG00049-20101217-0917.jpg

2011-01-05 Thread Pudji Widodo

Dear Mrs. F. Abraham.

Maybe a cultivar of Dendranthema grandiflora

Pudji Widodo
Fakultas Biologi Universitas Jenderal Soedirman
PURWOKERTO INDONESIA

On Dec 18 2010, 10:28 am, Farida Abraham fa.abra...@gmail.com wrote:
 sending pictures of the chrysanthmums in my garden. Can anyone ID them?
 FAbraham

Re: [efloraofindia:59296] Fruits Vegetables Week: RVS-19

2011-01-05 Thread Prashant awale

Thanks Vijayasankar ji for sharing. Really a nice collection...
regards
Prashant

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:20 AM, tanay bose tanaybos...@gmail.com wrote:

 A great collection fo plants from Vijaya ji
 thanks for sharing
 tanay


 On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Muthu Karthick nmk@gmail.com wrote:

 Nice pictures sir.
 I would be happier if anyone could post the corm pic of this plant

 On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Vijayasankar 
 vijay.botan...@gmail.comwrote:

 Typhonium trilobatum, 'Karunai kizhangu' in Tamil. The corm (underground
 stem) is used (after boiling in salt water to nullify the calcium oxalate
 rhaphides) as vegetable.
 Picture was taken at medicinal plants garden within FRLHT campus,
 bangalore.
 Regards


 Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D.
 Post Doctoral Research Associate
 National Center for Natural Products Research
 Thad Cochran Research Center
 University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 38677
 Phone: +1 662 915 1018




 --
 Muthu Karthick, N
 Junior Research Fellow
 Care Earth Trust
 #15, second main road,
 Thillai ganga nagar,
 Chennai - 600 061
 Mob: 09626833911
 www.careearthtrust.org




 --
 *Tanay Bose*
 Research Assistant  Teaching Assistant.
 Department of Botany.
 University of British Columbia .
 3529-6270 University Blvd.
 Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada)
 Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile)
604-822-2019 (Lab)
604-822-6089  (Fax)
 ta...@interchange.ubc.ca

Re: [efloraofindia:59297] Fruits Vegetables :: Indian Gooseberry :030111:AK-7

2011-01-05 Thread Pankaj Oudhia

Thanks for Sharing Dinesh ji. Here is link to my (only) contribution to
Wikipedia, picture of Aonla pickle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gmt_054.jpg

regards

Pankaj Oudhia

2011/1/5 Dinesh Valke dinesh.va...@gmail.com

 *NATIVE, WILD, CULTIVATED* :: Phyllanthaceae (leaf flower family) » 
 *Phyllanthus
 emblica*
 *Synonyms*: *Emblica officinalis* (popular), *Mirobalanus embilica*


 *fil-LAN-thus* -- flower leaf; it appears to flower from a leaf like stem
 *EM-blee-kuh* -- Latinized form of Sanskrit amalakah (sour)
 *oh-fiss-ih-NAH-liss* -- official; used in pharmacological sense


 *commonly known as*: emblic myrobalan, Indian gooseberry • Assamese:
 আম্লখি amlaki • Bengali: আমলকী amlaki • Gujarati: આમળા amla, આમલક amalak •
 Hindi: आमला amla, आंवला anwla, बहुमूली bahu-muli, ब्रह्मवृक्ष Brahma vriksh
 • Kannada: ಆಮಲಕ aamalaka, ಬೆಟ್ಟ ನೆಲ್ಲಿ betta nelli, ದೊಡ್ಡ ನೆಲ್ಲಿ dodda nelli
 • Kashmiri: आमलकी amalaki, ओम्ल omala • Khasi: dieng sohmylleng • Konkani:
 आवळो avalo • Malayalam: നെല്ലി nelli, നെല്ലിക്ക nellikka • Manipuri: আমলা
 amla, heikru • Marathi: अवळा avala, आंवळा aanvala • Mizo: sinhlu • Nepalese:
 अमलो amalo • Oriya: aula • Pali: आमलक amalak • Punjabi: ਆਂਵਲਾ anwala, ਆਉਲਾ
 aula • Sanskrit: अकर akara, अमलाः amalah, आमलकः amalakah, ब्रह्मवृक्ष
 Brahmavriksh, धात्रिका dhatrika, मण्डा manda, राधा radha, शंभुप्रिया
 shambhupriya, शिवा shiva, श्रीफली shriphali, सुधा sudha, तमका tamaka, तिष्या
 tishya, वज्रम् vajram, विलोमी vilomi • Tamil: ஆமலகி amalaki, அமிர்தபலம்
 amirta-palam, அத்தகோரம் attakoram, சிரோட்டம் cirottam, சிவை civai, இந்துளி
 intuli, கந்தாத்திரி kantattiri, காட்டுநெல்லி kattu-nelli, கோங்கம் konkam,
 கோரங்கம் korankam, நெல்லி nelli, தாத்திரி tattiri, தேசோமந்திரம்
 tecomantiram, தோப்புநெல்லி toppu-nelli, தோட்டி totti • Telugu: ఆమలకము
 amalakamu, ధాత్రి dhatri, నెల్లి nelli, ఉసిరి usiri • Urdu: آنولا anwla


 *Native to*: s China, India, Indo-China, Malesia; cultivated elsewhere in
 tropics

 *
 Edible use*:

 ... unripe fruit (as VEGETABLE)  ... pickled, or added to food
 preparations, as a substitute for tamarind.
 ... ripe fruits are also eaten.

Re: [efloraofindia:59298] Re: Fruits Vegetables Week: RVS-9

2011-01-05 Thread Jency Samuel


'Manathakkaali' in Tamil as well.  Sandhya is right.  Dried fruits fried in oil 
or ghee cure ulcers. But I find the juice extract from the leaves work better 
in curing mouth and stomach ulcers. Raw leaves are ground with water and the 
extract is taken orally on an empty stomach. (But I have taken it at other 
times as well and I feel the result is the same)  After one intake itself there 
will be a remarkable difference. Some people take the extract with coconut milk.
--- On Wed, 5/1/11, harithasandhya harithasand...@yahoo.com wrote:

From: harithasandhya harithasand...@yahoo.com
Subject: [efloraofindia:59284] Re: Fruits  Vegetables Week: RVS-9
To: efloraofindia indiantreepix@googlegroups.com
Cc: tanay bose tanaybos...@gmail.com, Vijayasankar 
vijay.botan...@gmail.com
Date: Wednesday, 5 January, 2011, 8:41 AM

'Manattakkali' in Malayalam. A delicious leafy vegetable.

The fruits can be dipped in curds and salt and then sundried. This
will keep for long time and the sundried fruits can be fried in oil
and used as a sidedish with rice (what we call 'kondattum' in
Malayalam). These fried fruits are also used to make a delicious curry
with tamarind ('rasam').

Regards,
Sandhya

On Jan 5, 10:46 am, tanay bose tanaybos...@gmail.com wrote:
 This is completely new info  for me I didn't knew we could eat S nigrum
 Tanay

 On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Vijayasankar vijay.botan...@gmail.comwrote:

  Solanum nigrum, from Sirumalai hills, TN.
  Ripe fruits edible and the leaves and unripe fruits used as vegetable.
  Regards

  
  Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D.
  Post Doctoral Research Associate
  National Center for Natural Products Research
  Thad Cochran Research Center
  University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 38677
  Phone: +1 662 915 1018

 --
 *Tanay Bose*
 Research Assistant  Teaching Assistant.
 Department of Botany.
 University of British Columbia .
 3529-6270 University Blvd.
 Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada)
 Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile)
            604-822-2019 (Lab)
            604-822-6089  (Fax)
 ta...@interchange.ubc.ca

Re: [efloraofindia:59299] Fruits Vegetables Week: Foeniculum vulgare from Delhi

2011-01-05 Thread nabha meghani

Hallo all, 
we eat here (germany) Fenchel which is Foeniculum vulgare
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fennel
It is very common to eat the bulbs  
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Fenouil.jpg
The leaves (Dill) are used mainly with Cucurbita  (tambda Bhopla in Marathi). 
Unfortunately i did not make a foto of  Cucurbita  from my garden this year. 
Now it is in the deep freeze. I shall go in the market today or tomorrow to get 
the fotos of Fenchel. We eat it raw, in salad etc. Very tasty and opne of my 
favorites.

Prof. Singh ji, 
I can't answer any of your questions. my botany knowledge is ZERO.

Regards 
Nalini


  - Original Message - 
  From: Gurcharan Singh 
  To: tanay bose 
  Cc: efloraofindia 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 7:00 AM
  Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:59254] Fruits  Vegetables Week: Foeniculum 
vulgare from Delhi



  I wish some one corrects me. The sowa plant we grow in Delhi and known as 
Anethum sowa depicted above and also in separate post  does not have typical 
wings of Dill (Anethum graveolens). This has always been confusing me. The sowa 
leaves have more sharper taste as compared to pleasing softer taste of fennel, 
and ripe fruits are almost black in colour as compared to almost green in 
fennel.

  -- 
  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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ 




  On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:54 PM, tanay bose tanaybos...@gmail.com wrote:

One of my favorite spices 
tanay 



On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com wrote:

  Foeniculum vulgare from Delhi, Fennel or saunf plant

  It may be confused with Anethum sowa but has larger lighter coloured 
flowers, few in an umbel, stems thicker, lighter in colour often somewhat 
glaucous, fruits larger and broader, lighter in colour. I am uploading it along 
with comparison photographs.



  -- 
  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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ 






-- 

Tanay Bose 
Research Assistant  Teaching Assistant. 
Department of Botany.
University of British Columbia .
3529-6270 University Blvd. 
Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada)
Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile)
   604-822-2019 (Lab)
   604-822-6089  (Fax)
ta...@interchange.ubc.ca

Re: [efloraofindia:59305] Fruit and Vegetable Week- Ziziphus mauritiana from Panipat

2011-01-05 Thread Satish Phadke

Good illustrative information after keen observation. Was not aware of that.

On 5 January 2011 02:41, Pankaj Kumar sahanipan...@gmail.com wrote:

 If you notice properly in the first pic of Dinesh sir, you can see
 that in one flower all anthers are pointed upwards where as in other
 two the anthers are pointed downwards and backwards.

 There are phenomena in plants called HERKOGAMY [Herkogamy is a common
 strategy employed by hermaphroditic angiosperms to reduce sexual
 interference between male (anthers) and female (stigma) function. ]
 and DICHOGAMY [Dichogamy, also known as sequential hermaphrodism, is
 the separation in time of gender expression in a hermaphroditic
 organism. In the context of the plant sexuality of flowering plants
 (angiosperms), there are two forms of dichogamy: protogyny—female
 function precedes male function—and protandry—male function precedes
 female function.] .

 Zizyphus had protoandrous flowers, i.e., androecium develops to
 maturity first and after sometime gynoecium attains maturity, in
 simple words, there is a distinct delineation of male and female phase
 in the same flower as both anther and stigma dont mature at one time
 hence inhibiting self pollination.

 In the flower above, the anthers mature first (during erect position
 as in the picture, which has white pollens on the anthers] but stigma
 remains immature, hence the insect will come collect pollens from the
 erect anthers but pollens wont be able to get deposited on the stigma
 of the same plant because the stigma will not be mature enough to let
 the pollen stick to it. Hence if and when the insect will visit
 another flower which has mature stigma, pollen gets deposited. In
 other words, pollen from one flower is avoided from getting deposited
 on the stigma of the same flower.

 There are some other terms here which are useful:
 Geitonogamy: In this pollination of a flower with the pollen from
 another flower on the same flowering plant.
 Xenogamy: In this pollination of a flower takes place by pollens from
 a different plant .

 Read following links for more knowledge:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herkogamy
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichogamy

 Hope I am understandable.
 Pankaj

 On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Dinesh Valke dinesh.va...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  NATIVE, WILD, CULTIVATED :: Rhamnaceae (buckthorn family) » Zizyphus
  mauritiana ... also spelt: Zizyphus
 
 
  ZIZ-ih-fuss -- an ancient Greek name derived from the Persian word
 zizafun
  maw-rih-tee-AY-nuh -- of or from Mauritiana, a north African area
 
 
  commonly known as: Chinese apple, Chinese date, cottony jujube, Indian
  jujube, Indian plum, sour jujube, Yunnan jujube, Yunnan spiny jujube •
  Hindi: बदर badar, बेर ber, कुबल kubal, फेनिल phenil, पिच्छल picchal •
  Kashmiri: bari, konkamber, phitni • Konkani: बॉर्र boaarr • Manipuri:
 boroi
  • Marathi: बोर bor, सौबरी saubari • Punjabi: amlai, barari, simli, singli
 •
  Sanskrit: बदर badar, बद्री badri, सौवीर sauvir • Tamil: எளந்தை elandhai •
  Telugu: రేగు regu
 
 
  Native to: south Asia (mainly India)
 
 
 



 --
 ***
 TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!


 Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae)
 Research Associate
 Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project
 Department of Habitat Ecology
 Wildlife Institute of India
 Post Box # 18
 Dehradun - 248001, India

86 matches

Mail list logo