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Thank you Gargji for the help and quick action. Will be enjoying the group as usual. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel
Re: [efloraofindia:87880] BALSAMINACEAE: ID-Prejith003. Some balsams for identification.
Rnt these the Balsum variety? Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Prejith Sampath presa...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 09:12:36 To: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:87872] BALSAMINACEAE: ID-Prejith003. Some balsams for identification. Hi all, These were photographed when I went to South Wynad at 900 meters asl in September. Can anyone identify them for me? Regards, Prejith.
Re: [efloraofindia:87480] Names of Plants in India :: Smithia setulosa
Ye to eflora ki krupa hai! Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Madhuri Raut itii...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:39:26 To: Madhuri Pejaverformpeja...@yahoo.com Cc: Tanay Bosetanaybos...@gmail.com; Balkar Singhbalkara...@gmail.com; Dinesh Valkedinesh.va...@gmail.com; efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:87464] Names of Plants in India :: Smithia setulosa What a lovely thought Madhuriji Regards Bhagyashri On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.comwrote: sometimes i wonder that it the flowers which look at some people than they looking at the flowers! hence the photos are so beautiful. Madhuri *From:* Tanay Bose tanaybos...@gmail.com *To:* Balkar Singh balkara...@gmail.com *Cc:* Dinesh Valke dinesh.va...@gmail.com; efloraofindia indiantreepix@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, 12 October 2011 6:51 PM *Subject:* Re: [efloraofindia:87410] Names of Plants in India :: Smithia setulosa Awesome Dinesh Ji Tanay On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Balkar Singh balkara...@gmail.comwrote: Beautiful CloseUp Dinesh Ji On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Dinesh Valke dinesh.va...@gmail.comwrote: via Specieshttps://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-species S https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-species/s *Smithia setulosa* Dalzell [image: Smithia setulosa Dalzell]http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/6227040140/ [image: Flowers of India]http://www.flowersofindia.in/catalog/slides/Bristly%20Smithia.html [image: Discussions at efloraofindia]https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#%21searchin/indiantreepix/Smithia%20setulosa [image: more views in flickr]http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Smithiasetulosam=tagsz=m [image: more views on Google Earth]http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/geo/india/tags=Smithiasetulosaformat=kml_nl *SMITH-ee-uh* -- named for British botanist and physician Sir James Edward Smith *set-yoo-LO-sa* -- having little bristles *commonly known as*: bristly smithiahttps://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/english/bristly-smithia• *Marathi*: मोठा कवला motha kawlahttps://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/marathi/motha-kavala-motha-kavala *botanical names*: *Smithia setulosa* Dalzell ... *synonyms*: no synonym known ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Photographed at Koraigad (~2898 ft asl) near Ambavane village, Maharashtra ... October 8, 2011 at 10.11am Regards. Dinesh -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964 -- *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 *Webpages:* http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/mberbee.html http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/gradstud.html https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/
Re: [efloraofindia:86606] Rosaceae Week: Prunus emarginata from California
Wow! Had never seen cheries on plant/tree. Do they come single or in bunch? Would look lovely in bunch. Mouth watering. Even your peaches were good. Thanks sirji Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 09:02:03 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:86573] Rosaceae Week: Prunus emarginata from California *Prunus emarginata* (Dougl. ex Hook.) Walp. Common name: Butter cherry, Oregon cherry Tree with oblong-obovate to elliptic leaves, finely serrulate, 3-5 cm long; flowers in 3-10 flowered corymbs; fruit red, bitter, 6 mm long. Photographed from California -- 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/
Re: [efloraofindia:86607] efloraofindia:''For Id 0810201 1MR1’’ shrub with white and pink flowers and deep pink l eaves Pune
Beautiful flower Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Madhuri Raut itii...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 08:58:07 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:86572] efloraofindia:''For Id 0810201 1MR1’’ shrub with white and pink flowers and deep pink l eaves Pune Request for identification I could not see the whole plant could get picture of the flower only Date/Time-Sep 2011 Location- Place, Altitude, GPS-Pune Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type-Private garden Plant Habit- Tree/ Shrub/ Climber/ Herb- Shrub Height/Length- 4 ft Leaves Type/ Shape/ Size- could see only the pink leaves Flowers Size/ Colour/ Calyx/ Bracts- white and pink Fruits Type/ Shape/ Size Seeds- not seen Regards Bhagyashri
Re: [efloraofindia:86612] Rosaceae Week: Prunus armeniaca L. from Kashmir
Why Shankaracharya? Any relation to our Shankarachrya? Tempting to eat. When can we come to Kashmir to pluck them, cheries, apples from tree directly? And in your company? Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 08:48:40 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:86570] Rosaceae Week: Prunus armeniaca L. from Kashmir *Prunus armeniaca* L. Common name: Apricot Small tree with reddish bark, leaves ovate, glabrous, serrate, pubescent beneath on veins; flowers pinkish, 2-2.5 cm across; fruit pubescent when young smooth and yellow often flushed with red when mature, slightly flattened. Photographed from Shankeracharya hill, Srinagar Kashmir -- 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/
Re: [efloraofindia:86615] Rosaceae Week: Prunus domestica from Kashmir
Mouth watering. Thanks for sharing. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 08:55:44 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:86571] Rosaceae Week: Prunus domestica from Kashmir *Prunus domestica* L. Common name: Plum Small tree with dull green ovate crenate-serrate leaves, up to 10 cm long; flowers; flowers whitish, 2-2.5 cm across; fruit 3-8 cm long, variously coloured, ovoid-oblong. Photographed from slopes above Cheshmashahi in Srinagar, Kashmir -- 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/
Re: [efloraofindia:85966] Rosaceae Week: Malus prunifolia from California
Wooow! Last day of Navratra fast. Breakfast of apples. Mouth watering. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 08:18:22 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:85955] Rosaceae Week: Malus prunifolia from California Malus prunifolia (Willd.) Borkh. syn: Pyrus prunifolia Willd. *Common names: Chinese apple*, *crab apple*, *plum-leaf apple* * * *Small tree with elliptic to ovate, up to 10 cm long acuminate serrate leaves, ciliate beneath; flowers 3-4 cm across, white with long glabrous sepals; fruit yellow or red, 2-2.5 cm long, long-persistent on tree * Photographed from California, commonly planted in private houses. -- 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/
Re: [efloraofindia:85967] Rosaceae Week: Malus domestica from Kashmir and California
Is Malus the genus of all apples? Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 08:17:53 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:85954] Rosaceae Week: Malus domestica from Kashmir and California *Malus domestica* Borkh., Theor. prakt. Handb. Forstbot. 2:1272. 1803, nom. cons. prop. Syn: Malus pumila auct.; *Malus malus* (L.) Britton, nom. inval.; *Malus pumila var. domestica* (Borkh.); *Malus sylvestris var. domestica* (Borkh.) ; *Pyrus malus* L. Common name: Apple Commonly cultivated species with numerous cultivars. Photographed from Kashmir and California -- 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/
Re: [efloraofindia:85968] Rosaceae Week: Malus 'Mary Potter' from SFO, California
Massst! Thanks Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 08:18:39 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:85956] Rosaceae Week: Malus 'Mary Potter' from SFO, California *Malus *'Harry Potter Common name: Harry Potter Crabapple A low-growing crabapple, broad-spreading, densely-branched, deciduous tree up to 4 m tall and 6 m broad; ovales ovate, sometimes lobed, dark green; buds reddish-pink buds open to form fragrant white flowers 2.5 cm across; fruits 1.2 cm, red maturing in autumn. The fruits are persistent and attractive to birds. Photographed from SFO Botanical Garden, California -- 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/
Re: [efloraofindia:82408] efloraindia: 200911 BRS36
We have a very long thread of F. Krishni existing on eflora site. Rather that was atopic of discussion then. I don't know how to find old threads, and may not get time to search. Pl go through it. It explains about propagation too. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Rathinasabapathy Bhuvaragasamy brspa...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:48:04 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:82406] efloraindia: 200911 BRS36 If any one attempted the propagation of F. krishane, I shall be happy to have the details. I have tried through cuttings, but not succesful. After going through some literature I found that this sp. can be propagated through seeds only. Photos are avialable in the following link. http://nbranaikatti.blogspot.com/2011/05/ficus.html Thanks B. Rathinasabapathy Project Co-ordinator Nilgiri Biosphere Nature Park 1388, Avinashi Road Peelamedu Coimbatore-641004 http://mail.google.com/subscribe.mhtml
Re: [efloraofindia:82382] efloraofindia:''For Id 19092011MR1’’ peculiar yellow flower with 4 petals Pune
Great! A perfect student for you sirji. After all what is her name! Keep it up Bhagyashree Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Madhuri Raut itii...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:48:17 To: Gurcharan Singhsingh...@gmail.com Cc: Giby Kuriakosegiby.kuriak...@gmail.com; rajdeo singhrajdeo.1...@gmail.com; efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:82374] efloraofindia:''For Id 190 92011MR1’’ peculiar yellow flower with 4 petals Pune Thank you Gurcharanji So the id of the flower is Calyptocapus vialis Less (syn: Synedrella vialis (Less) A. Gray; *Calyptocarpus* *tampicanus* (DC.) Small): straggling daisy Because of the differentiating characteristics mentioned the id was clear and I also went on to see what is the meaning of disc florets and ray florets . It will help me for future understanding. I found that it is also called Lonestar flower quite an apt name. Thank you again Best regards Bhagyashri On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com wrote: Here is the key to differentiate the two genera (Based of Flora of Taiwan and Flora of North America) Synedrellahttp://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=100taxon_id=132087 *Synedrella:* Plants annual, erect or ascending, not rooting at nodes; heads aggregated; disc florets 4-12; cypsellae of ray florets with lacerate winged margins. *Calyptocarpus:* Perennial, prostrate or decumbent, rooting at nodes; heads solitary at each node; disc florets 10-20; cypsellae of ray florets not winged -- 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 Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.comwrote: I think the two species belong to two different genera Calyptocapus vialis Less (syn: Synedrella vialis (Less) A. Gray; * Calyptocarpus* *tampicanus* (DC.) Small): straggling daisy http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/tax_search.pl http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/gcc-88163 Synedrella nodiflora (L.) L. Gaertn (syn: Verbesina nodiflora L.): Synedrella http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/tax_search.pl http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/gcc-32071 -- 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 Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Giby Kuriakose giby.kuriak...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Rajdeo ji for correcting the id. May be the following link of a previous discussion in our group would be helpful. https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/a87025fc328ffc70?hl=en Regards, Giby On 19 September 2011 13:55, rajdeo singh rajdeo.1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, This is Synedrella vialis (Less.) Gray its a small prostrate herb, while Synedrella nodiflora (L.) Gaertn. is a erect herb. *** Rajdeo Singh Project fellow St. Xavier's College, Mumbai -- GIBY KURIAKOSE PhD Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Royal Enclave, Jakkur Post, Srirampura Bangalore- 560064 India Phone - +91 9448714856 (Mobile) visit my pictures @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/giby
Re: [efloraofindia:82387] Dr. Gurcharan Singh- crossed 8000 messages- efiGuru Guide
Great! Sirji, so you are a path leader for teacher like me to follow. I am really proud to be member of eflora becuse that's why I could know you and many others who are dedicated to the cause. My salute and thanks for moulding me too! Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: J.M. Garg jmga...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:02:35 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:82386] Dr. Gurcharan Singh- crossed 8000 messages- efi Guru Guide Dear members, I always wondered at the energy with which he shaped efi since he joined efi in Nov.'2009. It was when indiantreepix (now efi) was in its nascent stage. I know he will even fight for the right cause force the issue on matters of importance like mentioning author citation etc. From his guidance, efi has evolved as an institution on national importance, which is also involved in documentation of Indian Flora in the form of efi website. He is the first member to cross 8000 posts (almost 10% of total messages) on efi. His details can be seen at https://groups.google.com/groups/profile?hl=enenc_user=eXsq6hIAAABtPVFqUivGRZQfFgdlDyQm8rhlH0Pnl47z4AZhN98BFggroup=indiantreepix On this teachers day, we privately deliberated about him. Lot of epithets came to our mind for him like Pitamaha, Sarathi, Guide, Guru, Mahaguru, Living/Walking Encyclopedia of Indian Plants etc. However, we decided let something automatically stick to him on efi rather than we imposing ourselves. My salute to him on being a fatherly figure a great guide teacher on efi. -- 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 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 1700 members 79,000 messages on 31/8/11) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of around 5500 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata Common Birds of India'.
Re: [efloraofindia:82251] Names of Plants in India :: QUERY (Marathi)... bhat ghagari
Yes it is called as Khulkhula in Marathi? Then not surname but that aa pronunciation will be correct. Because it means the people who praise God!!! They are the stutipathak of God, Rajas etc. So they will be making some ringing noise isn't it of bell or ghungaru! Thanks for making me think. I hope matter is clear Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Dinesh Valke dinesh.va...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:28:04 To: Madhuri Pejaverformpeja...@yahoo.com Cc: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:82249] Names of Plants in India :: QUERY (Marathi) ... bhat ghagari ... yes, the seedpods make rattle-like noise. Here are seed-pods of *Crotalaria speciosa* which look similar to that of *C. verrucosa* [image: Khulkhula (Marathi: खुळखुळा)]http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F4174379450%2Fsa=Dsntz=1usg=AFrqEzc1QOlwwOZi7wOgNI5K_zQHysdEMQ Some of the meanings of भाट [ bhata ] are: 1 ... A place in the sea or a river which appears at low water; a shoal, shallow, sand- bank. 2 ... An elevated and level spot occurring in arable land; dry therefore and fit only for the inferior grains. 3 ... Ground prepared for sugarcane: also a plantation of sugarcanes. 4 ... A class of people or an individual of it. They are minstrels or bards. 5 ... ... An empty chatterer. Regards. Dinesh On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.comwrote: Had read your other meanings , but could not make anything out of it unless 1, how or what is the shape of the fruit? 2. Does it make any noise when dry?// 3,because all meanings given by you indicate noise. So it has to be related to either noise or shape. Ghagar is the word generally used by Bhats/ dont know but think so, because others use kalashi? This is all scrathing brain not knowlege. but trying to get it. --- On *Mon, 19/9/11, Dinesh Valke dinesh.va...@gmail.com* wrote: From: Dinesh Valke dinesh.va...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:82175] Names of Plants in India :: QUERY (Marathi) ... bhat ghagari To: Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.com Cc: efloraofindia indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Monday, 19 September, 2011, 1:15 AM Many thanks Madhuri ji. But what does भट in भट घागरी mean ? any idea ? Other than घागरी being plural of घागर meaning a vessel or pot (made of copper, brass, or earth) to hold water, ... the other meanings of घागरी are: a bell or jingling ball (as of a child's girdle, or as worn on the toes by dancing girls c.); the fruit of a plant commonly known as घागरा. Regards. Dinesh On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.comhttp://in.mc947.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: perfect! will try, time is a great constrain. isnt Ghagri means the pot called ghagar? plural of it? So pot like appearence? --- On *Sun, 18/9/11, Dinesh Valke dinesh.va...@gmail.comhttp://in.mc947.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dinesh.va...@gmail.com * wrote: From: Dinesh Valke dinesh.va...@gmail.comhttp://in.mc947.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dinesh.va...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:82175] Names of Plants in India :: QUERY (Marathi) ... bhat ghagari To: Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.comhttp://in.mc947.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=formpeja...@yahoo.com Cc: efloraofindia indiantreepix@googlegroups.comhttp://in.mc947.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sunday, 18 September, 2011, 3:49 PM Madhuri ji ... did you mean to say भट घागरी ? ... any meaning for this भटas a prefix to घागरी Meaning of घागरी 1 ... A bell or jingling ball (as of a child's girdle, or as worn on the toes by dancing girls c.) 2 ... The fruit of घागरा. 3 ... The plant commonly घागरा Have attached a javascrpted-HTML for generating Devanagari script ... you may try your hand at it. Regards. Dinesh On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.comhttp://in.mc947.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: would have to try once that Marathi font. will do soon. Pronounce it as Marathi surname. Madhuri --- On *Sun, 18/9/11, Dinesh Valke dinesh.va...@gmail.comhttp://in.mc947.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dinesh.va...@gmail.com * wrote: From: Dinesh Valke dinesh.va...@gmail.comhttp://in.mc947.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dinesh.va...@gmail.com Subject: [efloraofindia:82154] Names of Plants in India :: QUERY (Marathi) ... bhat ghagari To: efloraofindia indiantreepix@googlegroups.comhttp://in.mc947.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sunday, 18 September, 2011, 1:20 PM Dear Marathi-knowing friends, [image: Crotalaria verrucosa
Re: [efloraofindia:82137] Re: ORCHIDACEAE: Spathoglottis pubescens Lindl.
That's fun and joy u get when u r amongst nature, it gives a life long experience, memories, all positi ve energy to live. I am missing it really. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Dr Pankaj Kumar sahanipan...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:12:05 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:82125] Re: ORCHIDACEAE: Spathoglottis pubescens Lindl. Thanks a lot for appreciating mam. I went on a walk and reached this place and found some Curculigo like leaves on the slopes. I was thinking, it has to be orchid and I took some pic, didnt want to dig out, but just checked by inserted my fingers in soil. And I was so foolish, the flowers were blooming just next to it at 1 distance. I laughed at myself :P. Pankaj On Sep 18, 3:38 am, Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: REALLY BEAUTIFUL Madhuri --- On Sat, 17/9/11, Pankaj Kumar sahanipan...@gmail.com wrote: From: Pankaj Kumar sahanipan...@gmail.com Subject: [efloraofindia:82080] ORCHIDACEAE: Spathoglottis pubescens Lindl. To: indiantreepix indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Saturday, 17 September, 2011, 3:21 PM Spathoglottis pubescens Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 120 (1831). Synonyms: Spathoglottis plicata var. pubescens (Lindl.) M.Hiroe, Orchid Flowers 2: 89 (1971). Epipactis graminifolia Roxb., Fl. Ind. ed. 1832, 3: 456 (1832). Pogonia graminifolia (Roxb.) Voigt, Hort. Suburb. Calcutt.: 632 (1845). Spathoglottis fortunei Lindl., Edwards's Bot. Reg. 31: t. 19 (1845). Spathoglottis parvifolia Lindl., Edwards's Bot. Reg. 31: t. 19 (1845). Spathoglottis khasyana Griff., Not. Pl. Asiat. 3: 323 (1851). Spathoglottis bensonii Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 814 (1890). Spathoglottis pubescens var. berkleyi Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 814 (1890). Spathoglottis pubescens var. parvifolia (Lindl.) Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 814 (1890). Family: ORCHIDACEAE Distribution: Arunachal Pradesh to South China and Indo-China Current Location: On the hill slopes in Tai Po, New Territories, at around 600m in KFBG campus but wild, Hong Kong. Camera used: IPHONE4 (I am a poor photographer as I have no other camera right now :P) Regards Pankaj -- *** Taxonomists getting Extinct and Species Data Deficient !! Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) Conservation Officer Flora Conservation Department Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG) Corporation Lam Kam Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong email: pku...@kbfg.org sahanipan...@gmail.com pankajsah...@rediffmail.com Phone: +852 2483 7128 (office - 8:30am to 5:30pm) +852 5431 6094 (mobile)
Re: [efloraofindia:81977] Re: Slender Climber
Pudiji related to identifying the sps experts will be able to help you. Thank you Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Pudji Widodo pudjiuns...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:39:26 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:81976] Re: Slender Climber Dear Dinesh Ji and Madhuri Ji What about Clematis smilacifolia Wall.? Thank you for helping. Regards, Pudji Widodo Fakultas Biologi Universitas Jenderal Soedirman PURWOKERTO 53122 INDONESIA
Re: [efloraofindia:82049] flora-australia-30
Great Great great! Page madam Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: ushaprabha page ushaprabhap...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:50:45 To: indiantreepixindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:82036] flora-australia-30 Sprengelia incarnata-an endamic shrub of Australia`s bush-land. F-Ericaceae.
Re: [efloraofindia:82050] Flora-Australia-29
Too good! What great efforts of nature! Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: ushaprabha page ushaprabhap...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:45:19 To: indiantreepixindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:82035] Flora-Australia-29 A beautiful sp. from Malvaceae. seen inthe campus garden, may be cultivated.-Pl confirm.
Re: [efloraofindia:81840] Chakrata trip from tomorrow for Five days
I wish the very very best to the stalverts of the group. Its going to be one more hectic week or fortnight when all of you return and start posting your findings. Again happy journey and happy sighting. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:14:18 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:81838] Chakrata trip from tomorrow for Five days Dear members We are going for five day trip to Chakrata and surrounding areas from tomorrow. We will return back on 19th. Hope to bring back photographs of some interesting plants. Myself, Shrikant ji, Balkar ji and Nidhan ji are part of this trip. May not be able to interact on this group during these days. -- 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/
Re: [efloraofindia:81874] Re: Flora-Australia-27
I realized it after sending the mail. Thought of correcting today. Thanks for doing it for me. Yes she is a great devoted botanist, senior by age and knowlegde too. I think she is a direct or indirect teacher of many eflora members. She is highly respected in circle. Unfortunately I never got an apportunity to meet her though I have heard a lot about her. So thank you Page madam for sending such a beautiful flower. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Ushadi micromini microminipho...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:13:56 To: Madhuri Pejaverformpeja...@yahoo.com Cc: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:81865] Re: Flora-Australia-27 Madhui/Bhagyashri... this picture set is sent in by one of our senior members... Ushaprapha Page ji... and member for a long time I think...older member .. I dont mean age... not me... I am too junior and new...big difference So You are thanking Ushaprabha ji... Thanks ... Usha di ... Ushaprabha ji... I am enjoying and learning from your series, thank you for taking time to send things to us to see... Usha (as in Usha di micromini) == On Sep 14, 5:50 pm, Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: Beautiful flower. what an art of nature. fantastic symmetry, thanks for sharing Ushadi Madhuri --- On Wed, 14/9/11, ushaprabha page ushaprabhap...@gmail.com wrote: From: ushaprabha page ushaprabhap...@gmail.com Subject: [efloraofindia:81744] Flora-Australia-27 To: indiantreepix indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Wednesday, 14 September, 2011, 1:05 PM a member from Sterculiaceae -shrub widely spread among sand and grass,-a weed.
Re: [efloraofindia:81878] Flora-Australia-27
It happened to many of us mam. But since the week had just ended I thought can be a good addition for Malvaceae. Another part I forgot to mention I had never seen bushes of Sterculiaceae. They were always trees. Anyway beautiful flowers. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: ushaprabha page ushaprabhap...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:48:33 To: Madhuri Pejaverformpeja...@yahoo.com Cc: indiantreepixindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:81860] Flora-Australia-27 I think so, as I came to know that Sterculiaceae now comes under Malvaceae. Thanks. On 14 September 2011 18:21, Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: one more thing forgot to write . will this be included now in Malvaceae? Madhuri --- On *Wed, 14/9/11, ushaprabha page ushaprabhap...@gmail.com* wrote: From: ushaprabha page ushaprabhap...@gmail.com Subject: [efloraofindia:81744] Flora-Australia-27 To: indiantreepix indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Wednesday, 14 September, 2011, 1:05 PM a member from Sterculiaceae -shrub widely spread among sand and grass,-a weed.
Re: [efloraofindia:81879] Re: Flora of Panipat: Zizyphus nummulariafrom village vaisari Panipat
Chaniya maniya in Marathi. Seen outside all schools. LoOve it. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Balkar Arya balkara...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:39:58 To: Ushadi microminimicrominipho...@gmail.com Cc: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:81712] Re: Flora of Panipat: Zizyphus nummularia from village vaisari Panipat Well said Ushadi Ji We eat this with addition of little black salt On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Ushadi micromini microminipho...@gmail.com wrote: very nice to see the flowers... Its called chanibor..ચણીબોર in Gujarati. a small dark red ber... I remember this was our favorite to eat as my dad took us trekking along the country roads to introduce us to our native state... we used pick them right off the tree, and in those days.. there was not the black soot along country roads that I saw in 2002... so back then we could eat them right off the tree..now one has to wash them well Balkarjiyou can enjoy these for next few months.. I believe they ripen in December at least in Gujarat ... Eat a handful on my behalf... just see that you stay away from the thorns... well done, usha di oh I forgot... show us the red fruits when you eat themha ha.. = On Sep 14, 5:55 am, Balkar Arya balkara...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All Zizyphus nummularia from village vaisari Panipat Wild shrub growing in roadside area -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964 Zizyphus nummularia (1).JPG 120KViewDownload Zizyphus nummularia (2).JPG 293KViewDownload Zizyphus nummularia (3).JPG 115KViewDownload Zizyphus nummularia (4).JPG 118KViewDownload Zizyphus nummularia (5).JPG 134KViewDownload Zizyphus nummularia (6).JPG 152KViewDownload Zizyphus nummularia (7).JPG 286KViewDownload -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
Re: [efloraofindia:81640] Flora of Panipat: Clitoria tarnatea fromArya P G College Panipat
Dear All Ok. Don't know the correct answer. But no harm in scraching the head. 1. Sometimes the pigments are bad, r also found to be carcinogenic 2. A case was found of albino pig. Here when the albino pig was fed with some specific plant and was exposed to sunlight it developed skin rashes, which latter developed skin cancers. But Black pig if fed was not affected. It was found that the plant pigments were bad as when exposed to sunlight were reacting with UV and were producing some toxins resulting into skin cancers. In black pigs the melanin pigments were absorbing those UV hence no bad effect was seen. 3. Plant spents energy in pigment formation, hence production of other material can/will be less. Where as in white flower plant, less expenditure of enrgy on pigment formation hence more production of other materials. These other materials can be the alkaoids produced,or the secondary metabolities, which actually have the medicinal values. Hence in white revolution the milking cow is made to stand at one place so that gives more milk. 4. Some pigments like red / orange are of Tamasi type that is they increase the temperament. Which may affect hormone production in body creating bad effects. Any other gueses Thanks for $making me tjink. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:26:35 To: H Shemsan...@gmail.com Cc: Tanay Bosetanaybos...@gmail.com; Balkar Aryabalkara...@gmail.com; indiantreepixindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:81556] Flora of Panipat: Clitoria tarnatea from Arya P G College Panipat Error in parsing this message. Couldn't display the body part!!!
Re: [efloraofindia:81381] Re: Joined KFBG, Hong Kong
Then the treat will be chochlets. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Dr Pankaj Kumar sahanipan...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:05:53 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:81368] Re: Joined KFBG, Hong Kong Thanks a lot Ajinkya, Vijay, Gurcharan sir, Tanay, Oudhia sir, Smita, Dinesh Sir, Madhrui Mam, Prasad, Garg sir and Sathish sir for all your good wishes. All credit goes to your blessings and encouragements. Oudhia sir, mithai to banti hai sir, but idhar mithai milti nahi, aapko udhar se khana hoga, meri taraf se:P... or next time i come to india, then treat is due. Pankaj On Sep 12, 1:58 pm, Satish Phadke drsmpha...@gmail.com wrote: My good wishes to you as always. Dr Satish Phadke On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Pankaj Kumar sahanipan...@gmail.comwrote: Respected Sirs and dear friends Just to inform you all that, with the blessings of all seniors and friends, today I officially joined Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Gardens at Hong Kong. It is supposed to be a permanent job (though nothing is permanent in life) but first 6 months is probation period. I would be surveying parts of Indo-China and Indo-Malaya Region for Orchids and also for other plants. I will also like to inform you that from now onwards, I may not be able to devote a lot of time as the work is hectic but I will certainly keep checking the posts and replying where ever needed and I would also be checking the website for editing purpose. Regards Pankaj -- *** Taxonomists getting Extinct and Species Data Deficient !! Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) Conservation Officer Flora Conservation Department Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG) Corporation Lam Kam Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong email: pku...@kbfg.org sahanipan...@gmail.com pankajsah...@rediffmail.com Phone: +852 2483 7128 (office - 8:30am to 5:30pm) +852 5431 6094 (mobile)
Re: [efloraofindia:81383] Hero of Malvaceae Week: Mr. Dinesh Valke
You forgot one more point that people like me don't send our photos. Nahi to Just kidding Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: J.M. Garg jmga...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:17:51 To: Dinesh Valkedinesh.va...@gmail.com Cc: formpeja...@yahoo.com; Gurcharan Singhsingh...@gmail.com; Efloraindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:81357] Hero of Malvaceae Week: Mr. Dinesh Valke Wonderful work, Dinesh ji others. On 12 September 2011 11:07, Dinesh Valke dinesh.va...@gmail.com wrote: Good to find myself as the Hero of Malvaceae Week ... and it was slightly surprising ... because all the while, thought Gurcharan ji is far ahead with his plants in this family. But may not be wrong to say that for all the family weeks that have been conducted, in aggregate, his plants could be the most. Satish Phadke ji may have started late during the week owing to his busy schedules, else he could be having all the plants that are posted by me. There are many others who did not had the chance of posting due to their busy times. Was luck enough to have these many plants in my collection, also that the plant authorities fused a few families with Malavaceae. Many thanks once again to all, for this honour. Regards. Dinesh On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:53 AM, formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: **Can we award the title as Hero-- Malvaceae? And then further families? So may I congratulate Dineshji as Hero Malvaceae? Congrats to other members too. I have yet to see many many posts of Malvaceae. So appreciation for those will come over a period of time. It was a rocking week and could not keep pace with postings. Thanks to all contributers for keeping me bussy. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -- *From: *Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com *Sender: *indiantreepix@googlegroups.com *Date: *Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:25:49 +0530 *To: *efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com *Subject: *[efloraofindia:81341] Hero of Malvaceae Week: Mr. Dinesh Valke Malvaceae Week was a great success with more than 170 uploads, of which nearly 95 percent were duly identified. We could not have asked for more. Thanks Dr. Balkar Singh for conducting it so well. Truly the Hero of Malvaceae Week is Mr. Dinesh Valke with more than 55 uploads of high quality photographs with relevant data especially on vernacular names. Congratulations Dinesh ji. Congratulations also to the following members for being among the leading contributors: Dr. Gurcharan Singh: 45 Dr. Satish Phadke: 40 Dr. Ushadi Micromini (Desai): 32 Dr. Balkar Singh: 20 Other leading contributors with uploads in (or nearing) double figures include: Prashant Awale Raju Das Narendra Joshi Ranjini Kamath Muthu Kartik Nidhan Singh Ritesh Kumar Choudhary Raghu Ananth Thanks also to others who contributed by providing appreciation, useful comments, identification and useful information Congratulations once again -- 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/ -- 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 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 1700 members 79,000 messages on 31/8/11) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of around 5500 species)
Re: [efloraofindia:81384] Re: Joined KFBG, Hong Kong
Then the treat will be chochlets. Madhuri --Original Message-- From: Dr Pankaj Kumar Sender: Efloraindia To: Efloraindia Subject: [efloraofindia:81368] Re: Joined KFBG, Hong Kong Sent: Sep 12, 2011 11:35 AM Thanks a lot Ajinkya, Vijay, Gurcharan sir, Tanay, Oudhia sir, Smita, Dinesh Sir, Madhrui Mam, Prasad, Garg sir and Sathish sir for all your good wishes. All credit goes to your blessings and encouragements. Oudhia sir, mithai to banti hai sir, but idhar mithai milti nahi, aapko udhar se khana hoga, meri taraf se:P... or next time i come to india, then treat is due. Pankaj On Sep 12, 1:58 pm, Satish Phadke drsmpha...@gmail.com wrote: My good wishes to you as always. Dr Satish Phadke On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Pankaj Kumar sahanipan...@gmail.comwrote: Respected Sirs and dear friends Just to inform you all that, with the blessings of all seniors and friends, today I officially joined Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Gardens at Hong Kong. It is supposed to be a permanent job (though nothing is permanent in life) but first 6 months is probation period. I would be surveying parts of Indo-China and Indo-Malaya Region for Orchids and also for other plants. I will also like to inform you that from now onwards, I may not be able to devote a lot of time as the work is hectic but I will certainly keep checking the posts and replying where ever needed and I would also be checking the website for editing purpose. Regards Pankaj -- *** Taxonomists getting Extinct and Species Data Deficient !! Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) Conservation Officer Flora Conservation Department Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG) Corporation Lam Kam Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong email: pku...@kbfg.org sahanipan...@gmail.com pankajsah...@rediffmail.com Phone: +852 2483 7128 (office - 8:30am to 5:30pm) +852 5431 6094 (mobile) Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel
Re: [efloraofindia:81386] Malvaceae Week- Thanks To All
Totally agreed. I feel not only the episode but you are sreering the whole group itslf. Setting the landmarks in photography and directing the group to specifications required. Congrats Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Vijayasankar vijay.botan...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:24:37 To: Balkar Aryabalkara...@gmail.com Cc: indiantreepixindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:81353] Malvaceae Week- Thanks To All Congrats, Balkar ji for successfully coordinating the Malvaceae week episode. It was a real feast for eyes and also very informative. The episode, like the previous ones, showcased enormous team spirit and overwhelming responses. Though I couldn't contribute much due to time constraints, I enjoyed viewing/reading the posts. Thanks to all who made the episode a grand success. Regards Vijayasankar Raman National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Balkar Arya balkara...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Members 2-3 Months before when Dr Gurcharan Singh Ji proposed the name of families for coming week of families, I decided to co-ordinate Malvaceae Week. at That time my choice was just by Chance. I was not expecting such a huge response. Contribution of Gurcharan Ji, Dinesh ji, Satish Ji, Ushadi ji, Raghu Ji, Ranjini Ji, Nalini Ji, Madhuri Ji, Vijayasankar Ji, Mani Ji, Ritesh Ji, Narender Ji, Muthu Ji, Mohina Ji, Shrikant Ji, Prashant Ji and a few names i might have missed, by there lots of pics made this week a grand Success. More than 2000 posts in Malvaceae week in about 310 threads has covered about 170-180 plants and made this week an interesting week. Although Me in this week also could not contribute much due to paucity of time. Even some pics of this family still remain unidentified with me. I will try to post some of them today. I thank you all for your whole hearted efforts for making this week a colorful, successful week. Specially, continuous efforts of Gurcharan Ji, Dinesh Ji, Satish Ji and Ushadi Ji were a great source of Inspiration for all of us. Many many thanks and hats off to you -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
Re: [efloraofindia:81388] Malvaceae week 0905- 9112011 UD 024Brachichiton acerifolius
It had occured to me too. Except stigma is smaller. Madhuri --Original Message-- From: Satish Phadke Sender: Efloraindia To: ushadi Micromini Cc: Efloraindia Cc: Gurcharan Singh Cc: Balkar Arya Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:81359] Malvaceae week 0905- 9112011 UD 024Brachichiton acerifolius Sent: Sep 12, 2011 11:09 AM Oh what a beauty!. Thanks for sharing. Thoughts came to mind The tree shares some characters with our native Firmiana colorata. Both have acer like leaves. Flowers same colour and pattern (Tepals)though size shape differs. Both from Malvaceae (Sterculiaceae) Dr Phadke On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:21 AM, ushadi Micromini microminipho...@gmail.com wrote: Malvaceae week 0905 9112011 UD 024 Brachichiton acerifolius Dear All: Family: Malvaceae Genus: Brachychiton Species: B. acerifolius This also called Illawarra flame tree, is from Australia, But I found it in Sandiego, Souther California , driving past park… could stop only for a few seconds… and grabbed these pictures… came home took me a while to track down what it was.. this intensely crimson tree is not so common… looking through images of hundreds of red flowered tree yielded results… it’s a Brachychiton acerifolius… the story ended there, I had a beautiful curiosity on my hands, so what… but then I joined eflora … and one day Mr Raman submitted one to ID from Bangalore… lo And he even sent me some seeds.. I have planted 6 of these , will update when I have something to show … In the mean time the thread that helped me /us to see that it also grows in India is here: http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/f03d01e57c2c8baf/6d2edcf81d8b4801?#6d2edcf81d8b4801 Even in Australia I have been told that its widely cultivated… in parks….and in San Diego does not seem to have been invasive so far… not seen any reports to suggest it is.. Enjoy Usha di Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel
Re: [efloraofindia:81443] Malvaceae week 0905- 9112011 UD024Brachichiton acerifolius
Yes mam! But it was a real treat to eyes. madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: ushadi Micromini microminipho...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:14:58 To: formpeja...@yahoo.com Cc: Satish Phadkedrsmpha...@gmail.com; Efloraindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com; Gurcharan Singhsingh...@gmail.com; Balkar Aryabalkara...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:81400] Malvaceae week 0905- 9112011 UD 024Brachichiton acerifolius Yes, Satish ji and Madhuri...that's what I thought this week when the Firmiana came up... like minds think alike, ? :) ... usha di Thanks Tanay On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:32 PM, formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: It had occured to me too. Except stigma is smaller. Madhuri --Original Message-- From: Satish Phadke Sender: Efloraindia To: ushadi Micromini Cc: Efloraindia Cc: Gurcharan Singh Cc: Balkar Arya Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:81359] Malvaceae week 0905- 9112011 UD 024Brachichiton acerifolius Sent: Sep 12, 2011 11:09 AM Oh what a beauty!. Thanks for sharing. Thoughts came to mind The tree shares some characters with our native Firmiana colorata. Both have acer like leaves. Flowers same colour and pattern (Tepals)though size shape differs. Both from Malvaceae (Sterculiaceae) Dr Phadke On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:21 AM, ushadi Micromini microminipho...@gmail.com wrote: Malvaceae week 0905 9112011 UD 024 Brachichiton acerifolius Dear All: Family: Malvaceae Genus: Brachychiton Species: B. acerifolius This also called Illawarra flame tree, is from Australia, But I found it in Sandiego, Souther California , driving past park… could stop only for a few seconds… and grabbed these pictures… came home took me a while to track down what it was.. this intensely crimson tree is not so common… looking through images of hundreds of red flowered tree yielded results… it’s a Brachychiton acerifolius… the story ended there, I had a beautiful curiosity on my hands, so what… but then I joined eflora … and one day Mr Raman submitted one to ID from Bangalore… lo And he even sent me some seeds.. I have planted 6 of these , will update when I have something to show … In the mean time the thread that helped me /us to see that it also grows in India is here: http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/f03d01e57c2c8baf/6d2edcf81d8b4801?#6d2edcf81d8b4801 Even in Australia I have been told that its widely cultivated… in parks….and in San Diego does not seem to have been invasive so far… not seen any reports to suggest it is.. Enjoy Usha di Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel
Re: [efloraofindia:81192] Kalatope id al100911
This Hypericum have heard in Homeopath medicine. Madhuri --Original Message-- From: Gurcharan Singh Sender: Efloraindia To: Tanay Bose Cc: Alok Mahendroo Cc: Efloraindia Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:81142] Kalatope id al100911 Sent: Sep 11, 2011 8:08 AM I hope Hypericum patulum -- 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 Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Tanay Bose tanaybos...@gmail.com wrote: Yes this is Hypericum Tanay On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Alok Mahendroo alokisabe...@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends, This seems to be from the St. John's wart family.. Location Kalatope Altitude 2100 mts Habit Shrub...?? Habitat wild Height 4 feet Regards Alok -- Himalayan Village Education Trust Village Khudgot, P.O. Dalhousie District Chamba H.P. 176304, India www.hivetrust.wordpress.com www.forwildlife.wordpress.com http://mushroomobserver.org/observer/observations_by_user?_js=on_new=trueid=2186 -- 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 Webpages: http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/mberbee.html http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/gradstud.html https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel
Re: [efloraofindia:81196] My apologies
Great to have a bird watcher on the group. Welcome sir. Don't worry about wrong postings you will get used to it as soon as you start posting more. Nice to hear that you found the group Knowledgebale. You will be happy for joining. We will also be able to get enlightened about the association of birds with flora. Pl post that story too, say if you find any bird feeding, resting, nesting on any specific plant which you want to get identified. So we are going to expect great photos from you and stories for those photos too. Welcome again sir. (Name is misleading for the gender). Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: kaajal dasgupta kaydeegee...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:00:15 To: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:81179] My apologies Dear UshaDi and Dr. Gurcharan, Firstly let me apologise for not adhering to your format for posting and getting information. However this was because I am was not aware and this was my first post. I am a Birdwatcher from Bareilly and during my many trips and otherwise I come across many flora and fauna which I used to just admire and preserve.After I got an invite from Shri J.M Garg and seeing the intense knowledge sharing on this forum I got tempted to ask for id of few flowers.There are many more and I will try to search in indi net as suggested by you. Also for your info. I am the Administrator of St. Xavier's College,Bareilly and am a Male. My regards to all Kaajal Dasgupta Bareilly 9837375212
Re: [efloraofindia:81197] efloraofindia:''For Id 11092011MR2’’ ?Coreopsis grandiflora Pune
Can we call it as E Gurukul. We have distance education classes. Haha Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Madhuri Raut itii...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:54:12 To: Gurcharan Singhsingh...@gmail.com Cc: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:81195] efloraofindia:''For Id 110 92011MR2’’ ?Coreopsis grandiflora Pune Thank you Gurcharanji. It is possible because of experts like you. I equate experts like you to our Rishis in the past who had vast knowledge about the subject and eflora group like a Gurukul. The only difference being that students like me do not have to be present physically with the experts because of the modern day technology. Its a perfect combination of our old tradition of selfless impartment of knowledge and modern day technology. Of course some Rishis are strict but kind too so it gives a good feeling . Ha ha. Best regards Bhagyashri On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.comwrote: Yes Madhuri ji You are very correct. Good to know that you have learnt so many plants. -- 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 Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Madhuri Raut itii...@gmail.com wrote: Request for identification is this Coreopsis grandiflora? This is what I got closest after searching the net. Regards Bhagyashri
Re: [efloraofindia:81220] Malvaceae Week: Ladies Finger - Abelmoschusesculentus (MW-AR09)
Cut the lady finger near its stem joint and keep erect in water overnight. Drink water in morning and eat the fruit too. For first part I want the answer. Any way eating Bhendi has kept me brainy. Haha Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:54:39 To: Madhuri Pejaverformpeja...@yahoo.com Cc: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com; raghu ananthraghu_...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:81217] Malvaceae Week: Ladies Finger - Abelmoschus esculentus (MW-AR09) Madhuri ji Should brainy people use it, or those those who need to improve it? Any way I being diabetic would find it useful bothways. -- 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 Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.comwrote: Have heard that it is good for diabetes and also brainy people like it? or good brain tonic? True? beautiful photo. Good you reminded of food. Madhuri --- On *Sun, 11/9/11, raghu ananth raghu_...@yahoo.com* wrote: From: raghu ananth raghu_...@yahoo.com Subject: [efloraofindia:81175] Malvaceae Week: Ladies Finger - Abelmoschus esculentus (MW-AR09) To: efloraofindia indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sunday, 11 September, 2011, 10:28 AM Malvaceae Week: Ladies Finger - Abelmoschus esculentus (MW-AR09) Bhindi, Kannada: Bende Kai (Bende Kai Gojju is a mouth watering recipe served with steaming Rice/Ragi roti) Shrub Native Kela hanumanti village, Uttara Kannada dist. Karnataka Home Garden,
Re: [efloraofindia:81221] efloraofindia:''For Id 11092011MR2’’ ?Coreopsis grandiflora Pune
Thank you Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:52:38 To: Madhuri Pejaverformpeja...@yahoo.com; itpm...@googlegroups.com Cc: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com; Madhuri Rautitii...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:81216] efloraofindia:''For Id 110 92011MR2’’ ?Coreopsis grandiflora Pune E Gurukul A nice word from Madhuri + Madhuri Garg ji, we can use it somewhere. -- 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 Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.comwrote: Beautiful. The flowers are so heavy and stem so week, how could so many of them stand? The emergence from the ground too is as if they are arranged for ekebana Madhuri --- On *Sun, 11/9/11, Madhuri Raut itii...@gmail.com* wrote: From: Madhuri Raut itii...@gmail.com Subject: [efloraofindia:81183] efloraofindia:''For Id 11092011MR2’’ ?Coreopsis grandiflora Pune To: efloraofindia indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sunday, 11 September, 2011, 11:49 AM Request for identification is this Coreopsis grandiflora? This is what I got closest after searching the net. Regards Bhagyashri
Re: [efloraofindia:81239] efloraofindia:''For Id 11092011MR2’’ ?Coreopsis grandiflora Pune
Thought so. Anyway the arrangement was good. And the flowers too Thanks Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Madhuri Raut itii...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:31:21 To: formpeja...@yahoo.com Cc: Gurcharan Singhsingh...@gmail.com; Efloraindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com; itpm...@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:81235] efloraofindia:''For Id 110 92011MR2’’ ?Coreopsis grandiflora Pune Thank you Madhuriji and Gurcharanji. I liked the name eGurukul. @Madhuriji you have an apt observation. Yes the stem could not hold the flowers . I had to support them by a stick from behind. It is not seen in this pic Regards Bhagyashri On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 2:08 PM, formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: ** Thank you Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -- *From: * Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com *Sender: * indiantreepix@googlegroups.com *Date: *Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:52:38 +0530 *To: *Madhuri Pejaverformpeja...@yahoo.com; itpm...@googlegroups.com *Cc: *efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com; Madhuri Raut itii...@gmail.com *Subject: *Re: [efloraofindia:81216] efloraofindia:''For Id 110 92011MR2’’ ?Coreopsis grandiflora Pune E Gurukul A nice word from Madhuri + Madhuri Garg ji, we can use it somewhere. -- 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 Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.comwrote: Beautiful. The flowers are so heavy and stem so week, how could so many of them stand? The emergence from the ground too is as if they are arranged for ekebana Madhuri --- On *Sun, 11/9/11, Madhuri Raut itii...@gmail.com* wrote: From: Madhuri Raut itii...@gmail.com Subject: [efloraofindia:81183] efloraofindia:''For Id 11092011MR2’’ ?Coreopsis grandiflora Pune To: efloraofindia indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sunday, 11 September, 2011, 11:49 AM Request for identification is this Coreopsis grandiflora? This is what I got closest after searching the net. Regards Bhagyashri
Re: [efloraofindia:81240] Re: Malvaceae Week: Malvaviscus arboreus var.drummondii from Kukke (MW-AR10)
Thanks. No ji. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Ushadi micromini microminipho...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 03:00:04 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:81234] Re: Malvaceae Week: Malvaviscus arboreus var. drummondii from Kukke (MW-AR10) MAdhuri ji... thats var. drummondii for youthat's the difference http://www.smith.edu/gardens/bgilib/web/imageFrameset.php?latin_name=Malvaviscus+arboreus+var.+drummondiicat=2 read, look nice pics.. Usha di == On Sep 11, 12:43 pm, Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: till now most of the flowers seen on mail in this family were drooping or facing side ways. This one saw erect. Nice flower Madhuri --- On Sun, 11/9/11, raghu ananth raghu_...@yahoo.com wrote: From: raghu ananth raghu_...@yahoo.com Subject: [efloraofindia:81199] Malvaceae Week: Malvaviscus arboreus var. drummondii from Kukke (MW-AR10) To: efloraofindia indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sunday, 11 September, 2011, 1:06 PM Malvaceae Week:Malvaviscus arboreus var. drummondii from Kukke (MW-AR10) Wax Mallow Malvaceae 8th Nov 2010 07.40 AMKukke, South Canara dist., Karnataka, Western ghatsGarden, Shrub, https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/c6... RegardsRaghu
Re: [efloraofindia:81251] efloraofindia:''For Id 11092011MR2’’ ?Coreopsis grandiflora Pune
Would love to have it. Does it has bulbs? Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:56:05 To: formpeja...@yahoo.com Cc: Madhuri Rautitii...@gmail.com; Efloraindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com; itpm...@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:81235] efloraofindia:''For Id 110 92011MR2’’ ?Coreopsis grandiflora Pune Oh yes that reminds me. This plant is growing in our house in Srinagar Kashmir. It was vegetative by the time we reached Kashmir in June. It started flowering in July and by the time we were coming back in August, the branches (generally so many in a cluster and often growing to more than 1.5 m tall) were finding difficult to hold together several heads, and we managed by tying together the stems with a thread. Thanks Madhuri ji for your keen observation and reminding me. -- 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 Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 3:55 PM, formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: ** Thought so. Anyway the arrangement was good. And the flowers too Thanks Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -- *From: * Madhuri Raut itii...@gmail.com *Sender: * indiantreepix@googlegroups.com *Date: *Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:31:21 +0530 *To: *formpeja...@yahoo.com *Cc: *Gurcharan Singhsingh...@gmail.com; Efloraindia indiantreepix@googlegroups.com; itpm...@googlegroups.com *Subject: *Re: [efloraofindia:81235] efloraofindia:''For Id 110 92011MR2’’ ?Coreopsis grandiflora Pune Thank you Madhuriji and Gurcharanji. I liked the name eGurukul. @Madhuriji you have an apt observation. Yes the stem could not hold the flowers . I had to support them by a stick from behind. It is not seen in this pic Regards Bhagyashri On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 2:08 PM, formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: ** Thank you Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -- *From: * Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com *Sender: * indiantreepix@googlegroups.com *Date: *Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:52:38 +0530 *To: *Madhuri Pejaverformpeja...@yahoo.com; itpm...@googlegroups.com *Cc: *efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com; Madhuri Raut itii...@gmail.com *Subject: *Re: [efloraofindia:81216] efloraofindia:''For Id 110 92011MR2’’ ?Coreopsis grandiflora Pune E Gurukul A nice word from Madhuri + Madhuri Garg ji, we can use it somewhere. -- 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 Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.comwrote: Beautiful. The flowers are so heavy and stem so week, how could so many of them stand? The emergence from the ground too is as if they are arranged for ekebana Madhuri --- On *Sun, 11/9/11, Madhuri Raut itii...@gmail.com* wrote: From: Madhuri Raut itii...@gmail.com Subject: [efloraofindia:81183] efloraofindia:''For Id 11092011MR2’’ ?Coreopsis grandiflora Pune To: efloraofindia indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sunday, 11 September, 2011, 11:49 AM Request for identification is this Coreopsis grandiflora? This is what I got closest after searching the net. Regards Bhagyashri -- 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/
Re: [efloraofindia:81323] Malvaceae Week: Tilia platyphyllos from Kashmir
Ok. Not much familiar with examples from Botany in evolution. Thanks. Madhuri --Original Message-- From: Gurcharan Singh Sender: Efloraindia To: Dr Pejaver Madhuri Cc: Efloraindia Cc: Flowers of India Cc: Tabish Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:81252] Malvaceae Week: Tilia platyphyllos from Kashmir Sent: Sep 11, 2011 5:02 PM They remind more of a fossil group Glossopteridae which was common in Jurassic along with Dinosaurs and perished at the same time, having its inflorescence attached to the petiole of leaf, a structure known as gonophyll, which at least one author (Melville) thought gave rise to angiosperms. The fossils of this group are met in all present day splits of original Gondwana land of which India was once a part. -- 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 Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: flowers/ fruits give the appearence of fig Madhuri --- On Sun, 11/9/11, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com wrote: From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Subject: [efloraofindia:81130] Malvaceae Week: Tilia platyphyllos from Kashmir To: efloraofindia indiantreepix@googlegroups.com, Flowers of India flowersofin...@gmail.com, Tabish tabi...@gmail.com Date: Sunday, 11 September, 2011, 7:33 AM Tilia platyphyllos Scop., Fl. Carniol. ed. 2, 1: 373 1771. Common names: big-leaf linden, broadleaf lime, large-leaf lime, large-leaf linden Tree with pubescent young branches; leaves broadly ovate, up to 12 cm long, obliquely cordate, regularly serrate, pubescent beneath especially along veins; flowers creamish in drooping cymes, usually 3, rarely 4-6 flowered, peduncle united for half its length to the ligulate bract; sepals and petals five each; stamens many; fruit pear-shaped. Photographed from Emporium Garden in Srinagar, Kashmir. -- 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/ -- 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/ Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel
Re: [efloraofindia:81352] Hero of Malvaceae Week: Mr. Dinesh Valke
Can we award the title as Hero-- Malvaceae? And then further families? So may I congratulate Dineshji as Hero Malvaceae? Congrats to other members too. I have yet to see many many posts of Malvaceae. So appreciation for those will come over a period of time. It was a rocking week and could not keep pace with postings. Thanks to all contributers for keeping me bussy. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:25:49 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:81341] Hero of Malvaceae Week: Mr. Dinesh Valke Malvaceae Week was a great success with more than 170 uploads, of which nearly 95 percent were duly identified. We could not have asked for more. Thanks Dr. Balkar Singh for conducting it so well. Truly the Hero of Malvaceae Week is Mr. Dinesh Valke with more than 55 uploads of high quality photographs with relevant data especially on vernacular names. Congratulations Dinesh ji. Congratulations also to the following members for being among the leading contributors: Dr. Gurcharan Singh: 45 Dr. Satish Phadke: 40 Dr. Ushadi Micromini (Desai): 32 Dr. Balkar Singh: 20 Other leading contributors with uploads in (or nearing) double figures include: Prashant Awale Raju Das Narendra Joshi Ranjini Kamath Muthu Kartik Nidhan Singh Ritesh Kumar Choudhary Raghu Ananth Thanks also to others who contributed by providing appreciation, useful comments, identification and useful information Congratulations once again -- 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/
Re: [efloraofindia:81355] Joined KFBG, Hong Kong
Heartiest congratulations dear Pankaj. May you have all success in your work, findind and iding Orchids and all your research. Let us see some new plants from the region. Congrats once again Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Pankaj Kumar sahanipan...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:55:52 To: indiantreepixindiantreepix@googlegroups.com; plantecologists-in...@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:81343] Joined KFBG, Hong Kong Respected Sirs and dear friends Just to inform you all that, with the blessings of all seniors and friends, today I officially joined Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Gardens at Hong Kong. It is supposed to be a permanent job (though nothing is permanent in life) but first 6 months is probation period. I would be surveying parts of Indo-China and Indo-Malaya Region for Orchids and also for other plants. I will also like to inform you that from now onwards, I may not be able to devote a lot of time as the work is hectic but I will certainly keep checking the posts and replying where ever needed and I would also be checking the website for editing purpose. Regards Pankaj -- *** Taxonomists getting Extinct and Species Data Deficient !! Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) Conservation Officer Flora Conservation Department Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG) Corporation Lam Kam Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong email: pku...@kbfg.org sahanipan...@gmail.com pankajsah...@rediffmail.com Phone: +852 2483 7128 (office - 8:30am to 5:30pm) +852 5431 6094 (mobile)
Re: [efloraofindia:81042] Malvaceae week: RVS6: Hibiscus sp.
This in Marathi is called as Dupari. Madhuri --Original Message-- From: Vijayasankar Sender: Efloraindia To: Efloraindia Subject: [efloraofindia:80975] Malvaceae week: RVS6: Hibiscus sp. Sent: Sep 10, 2011 12:25 PM Is this a cultivar of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis? pl help to id. I saw this plant in my friend's home garden in Madurai, TN. Regards Vijayasankar Raman National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel
Re: [efloraofindia:81060] Malvaceae week - Deccan Hemp? - Bot IDplease - 100911 - RK2
Thought so. Thank you. Wanted to ask the experts whether the Ran Bhendi also has varities? Because I have noticed whitish, creamish and yellowish flowers. Sometimes the red colour too varies. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: ranjini kamath ranjin...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:05:53 To: Madhuri Pejaverformpeja...@yahoo.com Cc: indiatreepixindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:81059] Malvaceae week - Deccan Hemp? - Bot ID please - 100911 - RK2 Thank you Madhuri ji.This was growing wild in all the usual litter strewn around on the lake bank but ofcourse i found it beautiful all the same!! As far as i recall [ pic has been taken some time back] the flower is more whitish. Regards On 9/10/11, Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: beautiful Ranjini ji Was the flower whitish or creamish? Madhuri --- On Sat, 10/9/11, ranjini kamath ranjin...@gmail.com wrote: From: ranjini kamath ranjin...@gmail.com Subject: [efloraofindia:81054] Malvaceae week - Deccan Hemp? - Bot ID please - 100911 - RK2 To: indiatreepix indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Saturday, 10 September, 2011, 5:31 PM Pic taken at Hebbal Lake,Bangalore on 01-02-09 at 8am.Request Bot ID Thank you Ranjini Kamath
Re: [efloraofindia:81068] Malvaceae week : Hibiscus rosa-sinensis 'White Wing'
Too good. Soothing to the eyes. Thanks. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: mani nair mani.na...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:46:37 To: indiantreepixindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:81063] Malvaceae week : Hibiscus rosa-sinensis 'White Wing' Dear friends, Sending a photo of Hibiscus rosa-senensis 'White Wing' Place : Murbad, Maharashtra Date : Dec.. 2010 Habitat : Cultivated Regards,
Re: [efloraofindia:81069] efloraofindia:''10092011MR2’’ Crysanthemum Pune
What a beauty. A little relaxation from shocks of Malvaceae I hope. Thank you Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Madhuri Raut itii...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 08:56:16 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:80910] efloraofindia:''10092011MR2’ ’ Crysanthemum Pune Sharing picture of Crysanthemum Regards Bhagyashri
Re: [efloraofindia:81070] Malvaceae week : Grewia flavescens
So you have started sending Griwias. Masta flowers. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Satish Phadke drsmpha...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 15:25:31 To: indiantreepixindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:81032] Malvaceae week : Grewia flavescens Malvaceae week : *Grewia flavescens* These are the pictures of a plant I believe as *Grewia flavescens.* Vetal Tekdi Pune. Dr Phadke
Re: [efloraofindia:81072] Malvaceae week : Grewia hirsuta.
Beautiful Chandanis Satishji. Can ckearly understand why it is called hirsuta. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Satish Phadke drsmpha...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 15:23:12 To: indiantreepixindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:81031] Malvaceae week : Grewia hirsuta. Malvaceae week : *Grewia hirsuta*. Another Tiliaceae member now included in Malvaceae. Presently flowering on Vetal Tekdi Pune. Dr Phadke
Re: [efloraofindia:81074] Malvaceae week : Grewia tiliifolia
Yes have seen it. Is it called Ghoti? Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Satish Phadke drsmpha...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 15:21:11 To: indiantreepixindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:81029] Malvaceae week : Grewia tiliifolia Malvaceae week : *Grewia tiliifolia* Former Tiliaceae member. A common plant around Pune growing wild especially on nearby hills. Dr Phadke
Re: [efloraofindia:81075] Malvaceae week : Triumfetta rhomboidea
Very nice colour and flower too. Madhuri --Original Message-- From: Satish Phadke Sender: Efloraindia To: Efloraindia Subject: [efloraofindia:81028] Malvaceae week : Triumfetta rhomboidea Sent: Sep 10, 2011 3:00 PM Malvaceae week : Triumfetta rhomboidea Dr Phadke Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel
Re: [efloraofindia:81151] Re: Malvaceae week: Linde (Tilia) from KnoopsPark in Bremen
Oh! Great. Till now had heard about trees getting names from scientists who I'd them, or place where they are found. Hearing first time scientist getting name from plant. Though it is common in common people like in Marathi Aboli, Jai, Jui and so on. But a scientist that to a geneus or father of Taxonomy getting a name. But why so? Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Ushadi micromini microminipho...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:21:28 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:81145] Re: Malvaceae week: Linde (Tilia) from Knoops Park in Bremen On Sep 11, 7:26 am, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com wrote: Our famous naturalist Carolus Linnaeus got his name from Linden tree (his earler name Linne) -- 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: 9810359089http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Na Bha nabha-megh...@gmx.de wrote: Linde (Tilia) Tilioideae within the family Malvaceae. Fotos taken on 15.6.2011 in Knoops Park in Bremen. The tree is 10 meter (or higher?) The flowers have a very pleasent fragrance and attracts not only human beings but many insects. Wood is soft and is used in carving, used in churches especially for Altars, for making furniture or veneers. Flowers attract honeybees and the goldcolor honey has typical flavour of Linde. Dried flowers are used to prepare tea which is good against cold. Linden-tea with a little bit of lindenhoney, a good book to read, in a rocking chair near the fireplace, listening to the crackling of the fire. Winter can come. In former days there used to be at least one Linde in every village. The village court was held under the lindentree, so the tree was called court-tree. After an epidemy or a war a peace-linde was planted. In one of the tree-walks I learnt that many existing lindentrees in our area were planted to commemorate the german-french war in 1870/71. In Schluttenbach in Southgermany there is one linde supposed to be more than 1000 years old. Linde is a very popular avenue tree. and the road is typically called unter den Linden (under the lindentrees) More or less in every city or village there is one unter den Linden. Lindenallee, atleast a drugstore linden apotheke. One of the very famous unter den Linden is in Berlin. Festivals, Demonstrations, Talks by politicians, public viewing Football, everything takes place unter den Linden Berlin-portal says: Unter den Linden is the oldest shopping street of the city and stretches from the Brandenburg Gate to the castle bridge. The first trees were planted in 1647 on order of the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm. One finds many stories and poems dedicated to Linde. One very famous volksong is Am Brunnen vor dem Tore, da steht ein Lindenbaum and more or less everyone can sing it. Regards Nalini
Re: [efloraofindia:80772] Re: Malvaceae week 952011-9112011 UD 020Bombaxceiba Lal Sheemul
Liked the idea of merger like the caporates. But would have preferred individual entity. They have there own characters, speciaities. Why merge? Ayway who am I to even cast the vote infront of the gaints among the scientists? But I feel everyone should have there own space. Madhuri --Original Message-- From: Satish Phadke Sender: Efloraindia To: Dr Pejaver Madhuri Cc: Ushadi micromini Cc: Efloraindia Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:80757] Re: Malvaceae week 952011-9112011 UD 020Bombaxceiba Lal Sheemul Sent: Sep 9, 2011 4:04 PM Yes Madhuri ji I was reluctant to post initially as I had very limited quota from Malvaceae. But after looking at some posts I came to know about this business of mergers and acquisitions similar to large corporate groups. I was happy later to include all my Bombacaceae and Sterculiaceae pictures. By the way Tiliaceae with many Grewias are still there. Let us see how much one can post... Dr Satish Phadke On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:56 AM, formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: You and me r sailing in same boat. I knew a little Botany prior. You r learning it now. But to be frank in my jr BSc. I use to like Botany very much. But there were 33 families for study. I did not like Taxonomy much then, if I had taken Botany as my major I would have to learn 66 families. So went for Zoology. I give the entire credit to this heterogenous group which made me take interest in taxonomy. The credit goes to Gargji too who invited me on the group. Thanks again Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Ushadi micromini microminipho...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 20:24:39 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:80657] Re: Malvaceae week 952011-9112011 UD 020 Bombax ceiba Lal Sheemul On Sep 9, 7:44 am, ushadi Micromini microminipho...@gmail.com wrote: yes Madhuri keep it open... this family is in a great flux... APG APGII and Thorne systems come to mind... each system it seems keeps moving the chess pieces aroundin subfamily, and tribes... so one never knows (esp people like me semi serious non-botanist-botanist types... for me this was a source of confusion and apprehension,) May be as the data is coordinated... Balkarji would give us his take on the classification!! ha ha Balkarji one more job!! usha di = On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.comwrote:hey some reorientation is occuring in brain. Again never occured that Katesavari i Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel
Re: [efloraofindia:80773] Malvaceae Week: Malva verticillata fromBaramulla, Kashmir
Agreed, agreed, agreed. Should say we are lucky to be there with you. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Satish Phadke drsmpha...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 15:52:25 To: Gurcharan Singhsingh...@gmail.com Cc: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com; Flowers of Indiaflowersofin...@gmail.com; Tabishtabi...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:80751] Malvaceae Week: Malva verticillata from Baramulla, Kashmir Thanks Sir ji We always learn many new plants from you. Not only good illustrations but the clearly mentioned character description makes your posts truly complete. We are really lucky to have you with us. On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com wrote: *Malva verticillata* Linn., Sp.Pl. 689. 1753 Common names: Whorled mallow, curly mallow Tall annual or biennial herb reaching 2.5 m; leaves orbicular, up to 25 cm long and as broad, usually 5-lobed; stipules lanceolate 5 mm long; petiole up to 25 cm long; flowers many, on almost invisible pedicels; epicalyx segments linear or linear-lanceolate, 3-6 mm long; calyx 5-6 mm long, enlarged in fruit; petals pinkish, 7-9 mm long, slightly notched; fruit enclosed in calyx, 5-7 mm across, mericarps 10-12, glabrous. Photographed from Baramulla, Kashmir, grown as vegetable (Sonchal, sotsul) Often cultivated as vegetable -- 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/
Re: [efloraofindia:80523] Malvaceae Week- Abutilon pictum
I really wish such photos-- front and side view of flower-- should have been there to make me understand the estivation. What beuaty to study. Thanks Balkar ji Madhuri --Original Message-- From: Balkar Arya To: Dr Pejaver Madhuri Cc: Efloraindia Cc: Prashant awale Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:80043] Malvaceae Week- Abutilon pictum Sent: Sep 7, 2011 5:54 AM Sorry skipped pics On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Balkar Arya balkara...@gmail.com wrote: Nice one Prashant Ji here are mines from shimla On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: Great!! Pictum? By any chance is it related to picture? It being so pictureque? Madhuri --- On Tue, 6/9/11, Prashant awale pkaw...@gmail.com wrote: From: Prashant awale pkaw...@gmail.com Subject: [efloraofindia:80039] Malvaceae Week- Abutilon pictum To: indiantreepix indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, 6 September, 2011, 11:06 PM Dear Friends, Seen this Shrub at Cherapunjee (Sohra region). Bot name: Abutilon pictum Family: Malvaceae Date/Time: 14-11-2008 / 12:15PM Regards Prashant -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964 -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964 Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel
Re: [efloraofindia:80674] Re: Malvaceae week 952011-9112011 UD 020 Bombaxceiba Lal Sheemul
You and me r sailing in same boat. I knew a little Botany prior. You r learning it now. But to be frank in my jr BSc. I use to like Botany very much. But there were 33 families for study. I did not like Taxonomy much then, if I had taken Botany as my major I would have to learn 66 families. So went for Zoology. I give the entire credit to this heterogenous group which made me take interest in taxonomy. The credit goes to Gargji too who invited me on the group. Thanks again Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Ushadi micromini microminipho...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 20:24:39 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:80657] Re: Malvaceae week 952011-9112011 UD 020 Bombax ceiba Lal Sheemul On Sep 9, 7:44 am, ushadi Micromini microminipho...@gmail.com wrote: yes Madhuri keep it open... this family is in a great flux... APG APGII and Thorne systems come to mind... each system it seems keeps moving the chess pieces aroundin subfamily, and tribes... so one never knows (esp people like me semi serious non-botanist-botanist types... for me this was a source of confusion and apprehension,) May be as the data is coordinated... Balkarji would give us his take on the classification!! ha ha Balkarji one more job!! usha di = On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.comwrote: hey some reorientation is occuring in brain. Again never occured that Katesavari is Malvaceae Madhuri --- On *Thu, 8/9/11, ushadi Micromini microminipho...@gmail.com* wrote: From: ushadi Micromini microminipho...@gmail.com Subject: [efloraofindia:80524] Malvaceae week 952011-9112011 UD 020 Bombax ceiba Lal Sheemul To: efloraofindia indiantreepix@googlegroups.com, Balkar Arya balkara...@gmail.com, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com, J.M. Garg jmga...@gmail.com, Dinesh Valke dinesh.va...@gmail.com, Satish Phadke drsmpha...@gmail.com, Neil Soares drneilsoa...@yahoo.com Date: Thursday, 8 September, 2011, 9:11 PM Malvaceae week 952011-9112011 UD 020 Bombax ceiba Lal sheemul Dear All: For about 8 to 10 day at the very beginning of spring in Kolkata there is a bright red spot among the bare branched tree tops… and if you pay attention you can count numerous birds, esp bulbuls and sunbirds etc drinking nectar and eting away something…. I believe Bimal da had done a series this year to document the species of birds visiting the red Sheemul flowers… The two pictures I am sending in are from a tree whose branches come down to my eye level… near where we go for morning walks…. Family: Malvaceae Subfamily: Bombacoideae Genus: Bombax L. Species : Bombax ceiba Colloquial names : red sheemul, shimul, shalmali etc Enjoy USha di
Re: [efloraofindia:80181] Malvaceae week 09 05 2011 UD 004 Ban KapasThespesia lampas Jungli Paras Piplo Kolkata 08
Thanks Usha di. Will prefer Madhuri from you. Requested others. They don't listen. I learnt my Botany from my grand ma. She and me had a habit of bringing cutting of any dam plant available in near visinity and plant it around our house. It was a jungle in the area of around 100 feet by 20 feet. All Malvaceaes and Aposynaceae, paps and what not were there. Most of the plants for which I have told vernacular names were in my jungle, healthy and flowering. For Gauri, Ganapati and Mangalagauri we use to collect all patries (leaves), from near by. So had to know the names. Nice were those days. Thanks again. Will surely collect the seeds and photos too! Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: ushadi Micromini microminipho...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 09:15:33 To: Madhuri Pejaverformpeja...@yahoo.com Cc: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com; Gurcharan Singhsingh...@gmail.com; J.M. Gargjmga...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:80100] Malvaceae week 09 05 2011 UD 004 Ban Kapas Thespesia lampas Jungli Paras Piplo Kolkata 08 Madhuri ji: what an acute observation as a child... smart have you seen similar plants now? if you do... please get some pics and seeds... that would be lovely... usha di == On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.comwrote: Dear Ushadi In my childhood we had a cotton plant in our garden, I do not know the genus and sps. But it was called as Dev kapus. The cotton balles have seeds inside. In one variety all seeeds are joined togather to form one bundle. This is considered as good cotton? While the second one has its seeds seperate. For seperating the seeds the first one is better, Because cleaning is easy. we use to make the battis in lamps from this cotton. the plant was there atleast for 10 to 11 years as per my memory. We use to cut it to keep the proper height so that we can remove the cotton. One day it fail in rain Madhuri --- On *Tue, 6/9/11, ushadi Micromini microminipho...@gmail.com* wrote: From: ushadi Micromini microminipho...@gmail.com Subject: [efloraofindia:79982] Malvaceae week 09 05 2011 UD 004 Ban Kapas Thespesia lampas Jungli Paras Piplo Kolkata 08 To: efloraofindia indiantreepix@googlegroups.com, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com, J.M. Garg jmga...@gmail.com Date: Tuesday, 6 September, 2011, 6:02 PM Dear All: This is a new plant for me... never knew cotton plants would go on and on for years... this one does apparently... look at its stem... its about 8 - 9 inches in diameter... I always thought cotton plants were a yearly affair... may be the agricultural pathos had brainwashed me/us... This was in a well tended herbal Garden ... for demonstration purposes to Ethnomedicine and other students.. Family : Malvaceae * * *Species: Thespesia lampus* (Cav.) Dalz. Ex. Dalz. Gibs. ; Syn: *Azanzas lampas* (Cav.) Alef.; *Thespesia macrophylla* Blume Vernacular names :Bengali: Ban Kapas * *বন* *কাপাস Gujarati: Jungli Para piplo જંગલી* *પ।રસ પીપળો This specimen was about 9-10 feet tall, grew kinda straight up, had a few flowers, I went in 4 pm , so the flowers were closing, but the petal color was still beautiful pink... and a few pods high up had opened up to reveal the cotton. The leaves were varied in size... largest were 7-8 inches long. What is used is: Various tribes use differently... Some use flower paste for burn, root paste for eczema, juice of young pods on Scabies. I found it very curious that Santhals of Bengal mix juice of its stem bark and Aristolochia indica root paste on snake bite this we learned in class. But along a Bengal village by the Damodar river we found an old lady who said she had in the past used the root bark juice to induce miscarriage ( this is quite opposite to the effect of Thepesia populinea root bark paste effect... which says it helps women get pregnant, esp get a male child... curiouser and curiouser!!!) Come to think of it ... similar plant had been growing beyond the wall of students' garden at a Ayurvedic college... and the local young gardeners, very sheepishly asked us not to photograph it... there was so much else to learn that we did not pursue that tree... but I distinctly remember it had cotton pods.. round ones , just like this one... Thanks.. Usha di
Re: [efloraofindia:80260] Malvaceae Week- Abutilon pictum
I really wish such photos-- front and side view of flower-- should have been there to make me understand the estivation. What beuaty to study. Thanks Balkar ji Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Balkar Arya balkara...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 05:54:46 To: Madhuri Pejaverformpeja...@yahoo.com Cc: indiantreepixindiantreepix@googlegroups.com; Prashant awalepkaw...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:80043] Malvaceae Week- Abutilon pictum Sorry skipped pics On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Balkar Arya balkara...@gmail.com wrote: Nice one Prashant Ji here are mines from shimla On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.comwrote: Great!! Pictum? By any chance is it related to picture? It being so pictureque? Madhuri --- On *Tue, 6/9/11, Prashant awale pkaw...@gmail.com* wrote: From: Prashant awale pkaw...@gmail.com Subject: [efloraofindia:80039] Malvaceae Week- Abutilon pictum To: indiantreepix indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, 6 September, 2011, 11:06 PM Dear Friends, Seen this Shrub at Cherapunjee (Sohra region). Bot name: *Abutilon pictum* Family: Malvaceae Date/Time: 14-11-2008 / 12:15PM Regards Prashant -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964 -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
Re: [efloraofindia:79550] Gutter beauty -Flower for ID - 21Jun11AR01
See the epicalyx is important. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 18:19:42 To: Vijayadas Ddvijaya...@gmail.com Cc: H Shemsan...@gmail.com; mani nairmani.na...@gmail.com; raghu ananthraghu_...@yahoo.com; efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:79549] Gutter beauty -Flower for ID - 21Jun11AR01 The two species really very close, the main difference being that epicalyx sebments are forked in H. radiatus, http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/29463/ http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/29465/ not so in H. cannabinus http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/55666/ http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/30149/ on that count the above is H. cannabinus -- 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 Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Vijayadas D dvijaya...@gmail.com wrote: Cannabis plant ? On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 4:05 PM, H S hemsan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, its Hibiscus cannabinus On 6/21/11, mani nair mani.na...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Raghuji, beautiful flower. I had the same plant with me. It is a type of hibiscus and propagated from seeds and cuttings. Regards, Mani. -- - H.S. A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone -- *Vijayadas **Electro Saudi Services Ltd. * *Salwa Garden Village, PB -7210 Riyadh -11462 , KSA *
Re: [efloraofindia:79373] Request for Species Id DKV 070611-1 Cactus fruit....
Actually I always admire Sirji and Gargji for their dedication. I think that they must have kept seperate folder for unidentified sps from where they must be taking out mails for unidentified plants. Something like Pandoras box you know. Very paitiently they resurface the mails, with full dedication, hope that a new member joined may be able to identify it. Or some non botanist if has taken interest in taxanomy may take up the task. Or some botanist may take the lead again to search in their knowledge box and find out the name!!! I really appreciate the efforts, hope, love, dedication and! As for me I am not a botanist and will never be able to a taxanomist. So its of no use to open the mail and read the content. So what I do? When I open the inbox and see the mails on sirji and Garji's name with 'fwd' as prefix I DELETE the mail by just marking them all togather in one stroke. It doesn't take time. But I know at that time someone else is breaking the head to identify the plant. For the photo which requires some details are taken by some enthusiast for the love of beauty and then feel that the name should be known. Hence sent to the group. If the hard core Botanist can explain that person what is needed he/she may take other photo and will sent. If can't may say so. Then the photo can be eliminated for ever. But I know many members of group who are non botanist have become the leading personalities of the group by improving upon suggesstions given. Since I am a teacher myself I feel that improvements can be brought in students if we wish too. My request to members will be give suggestions for improvement if you have patience or else don't react. But don't show your frustetion. Similarly see the 'fwd' short form of forwaded as prefix to mails from sirji and Gargji and open only if youwant to see the resurfaced mail. Else delete it with a click of mouse. Don't hurt the person with your overethusiasum. Bye. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 16:16:49 To: H Shemsan...@gmail.com Cc: ushadi Microminimicrominipho...@gmail.com; Dev Kumardev.kumar.vasude...@gmail.com; efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com; Mahadeswaraswamy.c...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:79362] Request for Species Id DKV 070611-1 Cactus fruit Dear H S For me all 1700 members are equally important, although experts are especially marked. Resurfacing job is a thankless job which myself and Garg ji has undertaken. No one volunteered when I was out to Kashmir for two months. Let us volunteer for jobs rather than criticizing others who do it for the sake of the group. On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 4:08 PM, H S hemsan...@gmail.com wrote: In this photo we can only say that its an Opuntia species... get more photo to identify the species level.. agree with Usha di ..., here lots of photos which are not even a quality of identifying the family are posted again and again for identification (resurfing) ... and also resurfing for the identified species pls find some solution for these.. or send it to only experts, bcoz every one do not have so much time to read the same post again and again.. regards, On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:19 PM, ushadi Micromini microminipho...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All: I honor Dr. Gurucharan ji' s opinion... but since he is sending it out again means... he is not convinced himself, is that it, Guruchran ji? I do not wish to contradict you or other erstwhile botanists, BUT in Medicine If we did diagnosis a picture of a lump ... we would be nowhere... same must be true for other branches of science including botany... and the botany specialist/s should not be put into a situation such as this... it behooves anybody asking for ID ... to show the mother plant... especially since its in your own garden! Whatever its worth , that's my opinion I am not convinced of the diagnosis ... many cactus derived fruits may look similar... I think I had voiced my doubts earlier... why is it surfacing again? Usha di == On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.comwrote: Resurfacing again for ID Earlier feedback Me..Opuntia sp. Dev Kumar ji...Opuntia indica ficus (ficus indica) Mahadeshwara ji.Could be Opuntia dillennii -- 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/ -- Forwarded message -- From: Dev Kumar dev.kumar.vasude...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:36 PM Subject:
Re: [efloraofindia:79396] Request for Species Id DKV 070611-1 Cactus fruit....
Sirji I respect every member of the group so much that I can't tolerate the complaints. Everyone is doing their job so well. All are so dedicated to the tasks they have taken by their wish. Every person has his/her specialty and I respect it. When I say I delete the forwarded mails by you or Gargji, is because I will not be of any help there. But I respect the joy of getting the unidentified sps identified. Sirji I was planning to write a thanks letter to group. I could not. But I am happy to tell that Dr has allowed me to join my duties. Of course I do have to take lot of precautions. I have to wear a special socks with supporting rods to support my ankle,walk slow, climb stair very carefully, but I am back on my feet. I joined college on 24th August and could not get a single minute to express my feelings. But I will like to confess every member of eflora has helped me to keep myself cool, joyful, happy, tolerent, etc etc. I enjoyed the Himalayan flora, Panipat flora, name of plants, Valmiki and all other threads. It made me forget my pain. It was a remedy on my home asylum. I wish someday I will be able to meet everyone of you. Thanks a lot for keeping me as fresh as I was. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 17:20:21 To: formpeja...@yahoo.com Cc: Efloraindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com; H Shemsan...@gmail.com; ushadi Microminimicrominipho...@gmail.com; Dev Kumardev.kumar.vasude...@gmail.com; Mahadeswaraswamy.c...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:79375] Request for Species Id DKV 070611-1 Cactus fruit Madhuri ji You have said it all. There are two ways of using delete buttons. mark all mails that you want to delete and press delete button. Otherwise click delete all, unmark few that you want to retain, and press delete button. Either way it takes few seconds. Only Aarti ji, Alok ji, Prashant ji, Muthu ji, Ritesh ji, and others whose mails are resurfaced regularly know the importance of resurfacing. You would be surprised to know that most of good ideas come from persons who are supposed to be non-experts. I remember a plant resurfaced several times with no conclusion, till Aarti ji came up with identification which we could have never imagined. Similarly I have seen the growth of Alok ji in recent months. He is a real asset to the group sending us photographs from Western Himalayas. I love this group for heterogeneity. I am more happy when an identification comes from Yazdy ji, Aarti ji, Alok ji, Dinesh ji (although he is more expert than many of us), Tabish ji, Garg ji,etc. I love that, many of us love that, and let us allow it to remain like this. We are all one big family and let us not make distinction between experts and ordinary members time and again. As Garg ji has been writing regularly. There is lot of work on our website and experts can definitely help in process of building eFlora of India in our website. -- 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 Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 4:47 PM, formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: ** Actually I always admire Sirji and Gargji for their dedication. I think that they must have kept seperate folder for unidentified sps from where they must be taking out mails for unidentified plants. Something like Pandoras box you know. Very paitiently they resurface the mails, with full dedication, hope that a new member joined may be able to identify it. Or some non botanist if has taken interest in taxanomy may take up the task. Or some botanist may take the lead again to search in their knowledge box and find out the name!!! I really appreciate the efforts, hope, love, dedication and! As for me I am not a botanist and will never be able to a taxanomist. So its of no use to open the mail and read the content. So what I do? When I open the inbox and see the mails on sirji and Garji's name with 'fwd' as prefix I DELETE the mail by just marking them all togather in one stroke. It doesn't take time. But I know at that time someone else is breaking the head to identify the plant. For the photo which requires some details are taken by some enthusiast for the love of beauty and then feel that the name should be known. Hence sent to the group. If the hard core Botanist can explain that person what is needed he/she may take other photo and will sent. If can't may say so. Then the photo can be eliminated for ever. But I know many members of group who are non botanist have become the leading personalities of the group by improving upon suggesstions given. Since I am a teacher myself I feel that improvements can be brought in students if we wish too. My request to members will be give suggestions for
Re: [efloraofindia:79418] Malvaceae Week: 05.09.11 to 11.09.11
Great! Remembered my Inter science. Presence of Epicalyx in some genera? Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Balkar Arya balkara...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 21:20:08 To: indiantreepixindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:79408] Malvaceae Week: 05.09.11 to 11.09.11 Dear All Welcome you all to the coming Malvaceae Week. To make this coming week from 05.09.11 to 11.09.11 a great success I need your best wishes and Co-operation in terms of uploading of maximum Identified or unidentified pics of plants from family Malvaceae. Here I am sharing some information about the family. Your suggestions to improve the event are Most Welcome. Hope for the maximum contribution from all *Malvaceae Also called as Mallow family is a dicotyledonous family comprising about 82 genera and 1500 species, distributed * *almost throughout the world and particularly abundant in tropics. * * * *In India, this family is represented by 25 genera and about 110 species.These include Annual or perennial herbs to shrubs or small trees.* * * * * *Some important floral characters of the family are:* * * * * *Plant parts often mucilaginous, leaves stipulated, young stem/ branches often with stellate trichomes* * * *Flowers axillary, solitary, or in fascicles, racemes or panicles, actinomorphic, usually bisexual, pentamerous. * * * *Calyx, free or connate, valvate aestivation* * * *Corolla free, adnate at the base to the staminal tube and falling off with it, twisted; petals 5. * * * *Stamens usually numerous, monadelphous to form staminal tube which at apex divided into numerous filaments* * * *Carpels 1 to many, usually in a single whorl, placentation axile; style usually branched into as many as the number of carpels or * * * *sometimes twice the number of carpels * * * *Fruit a dry capsule or schizocarp, rarely baccate, usually dehiscent. * * * *Seeds with a little endosperm* * * *Genera represented in India include Hibiscus, Pavonia, Thespesia, Kydia, Gossypium, Alcea, Malva, Abutilon, **Malvastrum, * * * *Malvaviscus, Sida, Urena, Abelmoschus, Sidastrum,Herissantia, Wissadula, Modiola, Anoda, Decaschistia, Nayariophyton, Fioria, * * * *Senra, Lavatera, Althaea and Malachra* * * *Hibiscus and pavonia are large sp represented by about 300 sp and 200 sp worldwide* * * *Some important Plant include Gossypium sp (Cotton yielding), Abelmoschus esculentus (Vegetable) Thespesia populnea* * * *(Avenue Tree), Hibiscus sp, Alcea rosea (Ornamental) etc. * * * *Thanks* *-- * Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
Re: [efloraofindia:79420] Request for Species Id DKV 070611-1 Cactus fruit....
Thank you so much Balkar ji. Sure I will join. I will love it. You know the best part of plant hunting is they don't fly away. So every member in the group can enjoy the treasure. Thanks for the offer. Best luck for the Malvaceae week. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Balkar Arya balkara...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 20:23:17 To: Gurcharan Singhsingh...@gmail.com Cc: formpeja...@yahoo.com; Efloraindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com; H Shemsan...@gmail.com; ushadi Microminimicrominipho...@gmail.com; Dev Kumardev.kumar.vasude...@gmail.com; Mahadeswaraswamy.c...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:79405] Request for Species Id DKV 070611-1 Cactus fruit Yes Madhuri ji thanks for your respect and affection with the group. We all wish your quick recovery. By the way if you wish you can join us on any of the flower hunting tour after you recovery. On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com wrote: Madhuri ji We have all been wishing for your speedy recovery and hope you are soon completely recovered to forget the previous pains. Efl is a big family where we feel and share sorrows and happiness of every other member. -- 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 Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 7:33 PM, formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: ** Sirji I respect every member of the group so much that I can't tolerate the complaints. Everyone is doing their job so well. All are so dedicated to the tasks they have taken by their wish. Every person has his/her specialty and I respect it. When I say I delete the forwarded mails by you or Gargji, is because I will not be of any help there. But I respect the joy of getting the unidentified sps identified. Sirji I was planning to write a thanks letter to group. I could not. But I am happy to tell that Dr has allowed me to join my duties. Of course I do have to take lot of precautions. I have to wear a special socks with supporting rods to support my ankle,walk slow, climb stair very carefully, but I am back on my feet. I joined college on 24th August and could not get a single minute to express my feelings. But I will like to confess every member of eflora has helped me to keep myself cool, joyful, happy, tolerent, etc etc. I enjoyed the Himalayan flora, Panipat flora, name of plants, Valmiki and all other threads. It made me forget my pain. It was a remedy on my home asylum. I wish someday I will be able to meet everyone of you. Thanks a lot for keeping me as fresh as I was. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -- *From: * Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com *Sender: * indiantreepix@googlegroups.com *Date: *Sat, 3 Sep 2011 17:20:21 +0530 *To: *formpeja...@yahoo.com *Cc: *Efloraindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com; H S hemsan...@gmail.com; ushadi Microminimicrominipho...@gmail.com; Dev Kumardev.kumar.vasude...@gmail.com; Mahadeswaraswamy.c...@gmail.com *Subject: *Re: [efloraofindia:79375] Request for Species Id DKV 070611-1 Cactus fruit Madhuri ji You have said it all. There are two ways of using delete buttons. mark all mails that you want to delete and press delete button. Otherwise click delete all, unmark few that you want to retain, and press delete button. Either way it takes few seconds. Only Aarti ji, Alok ji, Prashant ji, Muthu ji, Ritesh ji, and others whose mails are resurfaced regularly know the importance of resurfacing. You would be surprised to know that most of good ideas come from persons who are supposed to be non-experts. I remember a plant resurfaced several times with no conclusion, till Aarti ji came up with identification which we could have never imagined. Similarly I have seen the growth of Alok ji in recent months. He is a real asset to the group sending us photographs from Western Himalayas. I love this group for heterogeneity. I am more happy when an identification comes from Yazdy ji, Aarti ji, Alok ji, Dinesh ji (although he is more expert than many of us), Tabish ji, Garg ji,etc. I love that, many of us love that, and let us allow it to remain like this. We are all one big family and let us not make distinction between experts and ordinary members time and again. As Garg ji has been writing regularly. There is lot of work on our website and experts can definitely help in process of building eFlora of India in our website. -- 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 Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 4:47 PM, formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: ** Actually I always admire
Re: [efloraofindia:79423] Request for Species Id DKV 070611-1 Cactus fruit....
Dear dear Ushadi For sure the thread should stop here. But what I will like to tell is I was just talking about resurfing the mails. The very respected member objected on resurfing again and again. It was not any specific mail but resurfing in general. I agree that taxonomy should not be based on any painted picture. And I know that how much efforts you and every other hard core taxonomist of this group take. So every member should try to improve quality of photos, details of the plant part, diff angles, habit/habitat, location etc. No objection for that. But whatever has been sent on mail if not identified gets resurfed by some respected members with the wish that let it get identified. For this objection should not be raised. That's all. Di pl take of your head. Don't break it as I broke my anckle. Was home locked for 72 days to be precised. Now joined the duties. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: ushadi Micromini microminipho...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 21:30:02 To: Balkar Aryabalkara...@gmail.com Cc: Gurcharan Singhsingh...@gmail.com; formpeja...@yahoo.com; Efloraindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com; H Shemsan...@gmail.com; ushadi Microminimicrominipho...@gmail.com; Mahadeswaraswamy.c...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:79413] Request for Species Id DKV 070611-1 Cactus fruit Appreciate what Madhuriji, and Gurucharanji are saying... about the group and its working and goodness all around... we can make a different thread for that it would be memorable and become part of our hall of fame BUT. this particular thread should have remained as a glowing example of what not to do if one is asking for a diagnosis but ... we got side tracked... where is the original sender... Dev kumar in all this...??/ I for one am not happy to agree to a diagnosis based on a painting at the wiki site or a flicker photo whose authorship is not showing up... whose copyright is it? what continent of the god's green earth did that particular photo originate from? what season, what is the size of the plant or the fruit? how do we know the mother plant is really the same as what's in the flicker photo or the wiki illustration all that is conjecture and NOT SCIENTIFIC TAXONOMY IS SERIOUS SCIENCE AFTER ALL. If Dev kumar ji can not submit a foto of the original mother plant that produced this fruit... may be this thread can stop right here and be as is that's my 2 cents worth Usha di == Madhuri ji you said this, I quote But I know at that time someone else is breaking the head to identify the plant. its absolutely truly, I am compulsive and look at all, and do break my head over trying to id the plant... so it behooves the sender to respect my (and all other members' and especially the experts' ) time and be as explicit and elaborate as possible when sending in an item ... PS WHAT RECOVERY, Madhuri ji... did I miss something? hope all is well Usha di = On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Balkar Arya balkara...@gmail.com wrote: Yes Madhuri ji thanks for your respect and affection with the group. We all wish your quick recovery. By the way if you wish you can join us on any of the flower hunting tour after you recovery. On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.comwrote: Madhuri ji We have all been wishing for your speedy recovery and hope you are soon completely recovered to forget the previous pains. Efl is a big family where we feel and share sorrows and happiness of every other member. -- 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 Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 7:33 PM, formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: ** Sirji I respect every member of the group so much that I can't tolerate the complaints. Everyone is doing their job so well. All are so dedicated to the tasks they have taken by their wish. Every person has his/her specialty and I respect it. When I say I delete the forwarded mails by you or Gargji, is because I will not be of any help there. But I respect the joy of getting the unidentified sps identified. Sirji I was planning to write a thanks letter to group. I could not. But I am happy to tell that Dr has allowed me to join my duties. Of course I do have to take lot of precautions. I have to wear a special socks with supporting rods to support my ankle,walk slow, climb stair very carefully, but I am back on my feet. I joined college on 24th August and could not get a single minute to express my feelings. But I will like to confess every member of eflora has helped me to keep myself cool, joyful, happy, tolerent, etc etc. I enjoyed the Himalayan flora, Panipat flora, name of plants, Valmiki and all
Re: [efloraofindia:79045] eFl women for the month of August, 2011 amongmembers (excluding moderators): Usha Micromini
Do agree Ushadi Congrats. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 06:56:17 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:78984] eFl women for the month of August, 2011 among members (excluding moderators): Usha Micromini Congratulations Ms. Usha Micromini for being the eFl women for the month of August, 2011 among members (excluding moderators), for the second time in a row. Your interactions have been really useful in furthering interest in the group. -- 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/
Re: [efloraofindia:78557] Re: Fruits Vegetables week: Cocciniagrandis the ivy gourd or Kundru
Wow! Thank you Mohan ji. It is so very clear. Especially I really admired the third pair of leg with the pollen sac cover clearly visible. Thanks again Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Mohan V. Chunkath mohan.chunk...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 05:23:38 To: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Reply-To: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Cc: ulachungpaulachun...@gmail.com; Balkar Aryabalkara...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:78539] Re: Fruits Vegetables week: Coccinia grandis the ivy gourd or Kundru Dear Madhuri ji, The bee with blue stripes belongs to Amegilla genus. The colour is natural :-) Cheers, Mohan
Re: [efloraofindia:77844] Trichosanthes cucumerina
Ajinkya ji will be able to help you. He resides in pune and has related business. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Na Bha nabha-megh...@gmx.de Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:08:16 To: Prashant awalepkaw...@gmail.com Cc: indiantreepixindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:77822] Trichosanthes cucumerina Thanks Pravin ji, I wonder, if someone knows if I can buy seeds in Pune? The flowers are really beautiful. Regards Nalini Am 21.08.2011 08:50, schrieb Prashant awale: Dear Friends, Another Climber from CBD Hills. Bot. name: *Trichosanthes cucumerina* Family: Cucurbitaceae Date/Time: 20-08-2011 / 10:50AM Location: CBD Hills, Navi Mumbai Habitat: Wild Plant Habit: Climber. Regards Prashant/ /
[efloraofindia:77870] Krishnashtami
Radhe-Krishna Just speak the word. Radhe very slowly 'Raah- de' That means give me direction Raah-de-Krishna Krishna Please show me the path. Happy birthday of Lord Krishna! Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel
Re: [efloraofindia:77681] Re: ID of passiflora species!
Sheetal try the access on J store.
Madam
Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel
-Original Message-
From: Ushadi micromini microminipho...@gmail.com
Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:30:01
To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com
Cc: J. M. Gargjmga...@gmail.com; Gurcharan Singhsingh...@gmail.com
Subject: [efloraofindia:77669] Re: ID of passiflora species!
Not native to India...AND NEWLY OPENED FLOWER LOOKS VERY PRETTY LIKE
ANY GARDEN variety PASSIFLORA species...
http://www.plantoftheweek.org/image/passifloraf.jpg
Now naturalized in most tropical areas... is on a noxious weed list:
http://www.invasivespecies.net/database/species/ecology.asp?si=341fr=1sts=lang=EN
Though it seems to have some nice redeeming value...
I liked the last sentence in WIKI .. that its saponin richness is
useful in making nondetergent sahmpoo/soap...
love that... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passiflora_foetida
And Australian site that tracks useful plants list it:
http://www.newcrops.uq.edu.au/listing/passiflorafoetida.htm
GO FIGURE...!!!
Edict that Trash of one is gold of othermust be true !!
About the shampoo soapwonder if someone has made it???
WHAT INTRIGUED ME THE MOST IS A PAPER BY DR RADHARAMANI of
Bangalore...
which states that the intricate network of the bracts on the surface
of the fruit makes this plant a protocarnivorous, or borderline
carnivorous... ((Radhamani, T. R., L. Sudarshana, et al. (1995).
Defense and carnivory: Dual role of bracts in Passiflora foetida.
Journal of Biosciences Bangalore 20(5): 657-664. {a} Promotion Res.
Dev. Efforts Selected Crops., PC Unit, Bangalore 560 065, India )) I
could access only the abstract... the pdf needs to be bought at
springerlink site!!!
DOES ANY ONE AT EFLORA HAVE ACCESS TO DR RADHARAMANI or to this
paper??
Usha di
===
On Aug 20, 5:42 am, Balkar Arya balkara...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes P foetida
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Dr Pankaj Kumar
sahanipan...@gmail.comwrote:
Yes this is Passiflora foetida.
Pankaj
On Aug 19, 10:11 pm, Vijayasankar vijay.botan...@gmail.com wrote:
Looks like *Passiflora foetida*.
Regards
Vijayasankar Raman
National Center for Natural Products Research
University of Mississippi
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:51 AM, ravi g ravi251...@gmail.com wrote:
I require your help in identification of this Passiflora species. I
had
photographed it in Bangalore growing wildly along the shores of the
lakes.
It is a wild creeper and it is surely not the passion fruit plant. I
would
be grateful if you could help me in identification of this species!
--
Regards
Dr Balkar Singh
Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology
Arya P G College, Panipat
Haryana-132103
09416262964
Re: [efloraofindia:77369] Flora of Panipat: Homacladium platycladumfrom Arya PG College Panipat Haryana
Thank you so much. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Balkar Arya balkara...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:12:38 To: Madhuri Pejaverformpeja...@yahoo.com Cc: indiantreepixindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:77362] Flora of Panipat: Homacladium platycladum from Arya PG College Panipat Haryana Madhuri ji I have already uploaded them and again i will try to reupload in different thread with name in subject line On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.comwrote: Thanks Balkarji for the beautiful set of photographs. Understood the point related to this plant that is Homacladium. Actually it is used so commonly as an ornamental plant1 But Balkarji for comparison Phyllanthus also will be required is'nt it? So thanks for honouring one request. Now second. Pl resend the Phyllanthus epiphyllanthus photos too. Thank you Madhuri --- On *Tue, 16/8/11, Balkar Arya balkara...@gmail.com* wrote: From: Balkar Arya balkara...@gmail.com Subject: [efloraofindia:77286] Flora of Panipat: Homacladium platycladum from Arya PG College Panipat Haryana To: indiantreepix indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, 16 August, 2011, 11:18 PM Dear All Separately uploading Homacladium platycladum Shot from Arya PG College Panipat Thanks -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964 -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
Re: [efloraofindia:77213] Re: Cedrus deodara
So these are the cones which they paint with diff colours for decoration? Beautiful intricate arrangement. Is any further close up available? Are the ovules in each bract like structure? Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:30:04 To: formpeja...@yahoo.com Cc: Ushadi microminimicrominipho...@gmail.com; Efloraindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:77195] Re: Cedrus deodara Ushadi Please elaborate your joke on this. Deodar as important a timber plant in Himalayas, as Teak in plains. Madhuri ji The photograph from the top can be taken if you are standing higher on the slope and taking photograph of a branch of a tree growing lower than you. Yes male and female cones are separate, male are much smaller rarely more than 5 cm long and less than 1 cm in breadth. They fall off soon after pollination. The female cones are much longer, woody and stay on the tree for a long time. -- 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, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:59 AM, formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: Well Nudrat ji its a real beauty seen. How could you get the photo from top? Because the trees I have seen are quite tall. Ushadi they are the cones of Cedrus. I will like to know sirji whether the male and female cones are seperate or same? In Cedrus? If seperate how do they look? Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Ushadi micromini microminipho...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:38:05 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:77182] Re: Cedrus deodara WILL SOME ONE SHARE THE JOKE??? WHAT IS IT??? Usha di On Aug 16, 6:20 am, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com wrote: Yes nice 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: 9810359089http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Dr Pankaj Kumar sahanipan...@gmail.comwrote: Yes, doc it is certainly beautiful. Thanks for sharing. Pankaj On Aug 15, 11:08 pm, Nudrat Sayed nudrat@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, Sharing a picture of my favorite and the most beautiful tree (well in my opinion) -- Warm Regards Sayed Nudrat Zawar Cedrus Deodara.JPG 639KViewDownload
Re: [efloraofindia:77215] Re: Cedrus deodara
So these are the cones which they paint with diff colours for decoration? Beautiful intricate arrangement. Is any further close up available? Are the ovules in each bract like structure? Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:30:04 To: formpeja...@yahoo.com Cc: Ushadi microminimicrominipho...@gmail.com; Efloraindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:77195] Re: Cedrus deodara Ushadi Please elaborate your joke on this. Deodar as important a timber plant in Himalayas, as Teak in plains. Madhuri ji The photograph from the top can be taken if you are standing higher on the slope and taking photograph of a branch of a tree growing lower than you. Yes male and female cones are separate, male are much smaller rarely more than 5 cm long and less than 1 cm in breadth. They fall off soon after pollination. The female cones are much longer, woody and stay on the tree for a long time. -- 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, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:59 AM, formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: Well Nudrat ji its a real beauty seen. How could you get the photo from top? Because the trees I have seen are quite tall. Ushadi they are the cones of Cedrus. I will like to know sirji whether the male and female cones are seperate or same? In Cedrus? If seperate how do they look? Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Ushadi micromini microminipho...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:38:05 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:77182] Re: Cedrus deodara WILL SOME ONE SHARE THE JOKE??? WHAT IS IT??? Usha di On Aug 16, 6:20 am, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com wrote: Yes nice 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: 9810359089http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Dr Pankaj Kumar sahanipan...@gmail.comwrote: Yes, doc it is certainly beautiful. Thanks for sharing. Pankaj On Aug 15, 11:08 pm, Nudrat Sayed nudrat@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, Sharing a picture of my favorite and the most beautiful tree (well in my opinion) -- Warm Regards Sayed Nudrat Zawar Cedrus Deodara.JPG 639KViewDownload
Re: [efloraofindia:77231] Re: Cedrus deodara
So these are the cones which they paint with diff colours for decoration? Beautiful intricate arrangement. Is any further close up available? Are the ovules in each bract like structure? Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:30:04 To: formpeja...@yahoo.com Cc: Ushadi microminimicrominipho...@gmail.com; Efloraindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:77195] Re: Cedrus deodara Ushadi Please elaborate your joke on this. Deodar as important a timber plant in Himalayas, as Teak in plains. Madhuri ji The photograph from the top can be taken if you are standing higher on the slope and taking photograph of a branch of a tree growing lower than you. Yes male and female cones are separate, male are much smaller rarely more than 5 cm long and less than 1 cm in breadth. They fall off soon after pollination. The female cones are much longer, woody and stay on the tree for a long time. -- 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, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:59 AM, formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: Well Nudrat ji its a real beauty seen. How could you get the photo from top? Because the trees I have seen are quite tall. Ushadi they are the cones of Cedrus. I will like to know sirji whether the male and female cones are seperate or same? In Cedrus? If seperate how do they look? Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Ushadi micromini microminipho...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:38:05 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:77182] Re: Cedrus deodara WILL SOME ONE SHARE THE JOKE??? WHAT IS IT??? Usha di On Aug 16, 6:20 am, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com wrote: Yes nice 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: 9810359089http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Dr Pankaj Kumar sahanipan...@gmail.comwrote: Yes, doc it is certainly beautiful. Thanks for sharing. Pankaj On Aug 15, 11:08 pm, Nudrat Sayed nudrat@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, Sharing a picture of my favorite and the most beautiful tree (well in my opinion) -- Warm Regards Sayed Nudrat Zawar Cedrus Deodara.JPG 639KViewDownload
Re: [efloraofindia:77191] Re: Cedrus deodara
Well Nudrat ji its a real beauty seen. How could you get the photo from top? Because the trees I have seen are quite tall. Ushadi they are the cones of Cedrus. I will like to know sirji whether the male and female cones are seperate or same? In Cedrus? If seperate how do they look? Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Ushadi micromini microminipho...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:38:05 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:77182] Re: Cedrus deodara WILL SOME ONE SHARE THE JOKE??? WHAT IS IT??? Usha di On Aug 16, 6:20 am, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com wrote: Yes nice 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: 9810359089http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Dr Pankaj Kumar sahanipan...@gmail.comwrote: Yes, doc it is certainly beautiful. Thanks for sharing. Pankaj On Aug 15, 11:08 pm, Nudrat Sayed nudrat@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, Sharing a picture of my favorite and the most beautiful tree (well in my opinion) -- Warm Regards Sayed Nudrat Zawar Cedrus Deodara.JPG 639KViewDownload
Re: [efloraofindia:77206] Re: 19072011-BS-1 Shrub from Karnal for Id
Could get the explaination properly. But photos are gone. Is it possible to put back the 1st set with discription and 2nd set with discription. Am I asking too much? Thank you. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:11:29 To: Mahadeswaraswamy.c...@gmail.com; Ushadi micrminimicrominipho...@gmail.com Cc: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:77192] Re: 19072011-BS-1 Shrub from Karnal for Id Ushadi Although the two plants look similar superficially, and I also got confused earlier, they are quite distinct although the stem is flattened in both. First and third set of photographs belong to Phyllanthus epiphyllanthus. Note continuous stem with flowers along the margin. The second set of photographs belong to Homacladium platycladum (syn *Muehlenbeckia platyclados*, *Polygonum* *platycladum* F.Muell.), a member of Polygonaceae, note jointed stem divided into flattened sepments, a modification of stem known as phylloclad, also seen in Opuntia. -- 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, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Mahadeswara swamy.c...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like sword bush. Phyllanthus epiphyllanthus syn. Xylophylla epiphyllantha. On Aug 15, 5:57 pm, Balkar Arya balkara...@gmail.com wrote: Any way can it be Phyllanthus epiphyllanthus? On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Ushadi micromini microminipho...@gmail.com wrote: last picture (number 10, it would be) reminds me of what we called tapeworm plant... usha di . On Jul 19, 6:56 pm, Balkar Arya balkara...@gmail.com wrote: Sending I think the attached snaps are Homacladium platycladum syn Muehlenbeckia platyclados these were shot today from the Garden of My College this is in cemented pot planted by me 3 months back. Pls correct me if i am wrong On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Balkar Arya balkara...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Tanay i mean plant posted by me and id given by Gurcharan Sir i will share pics of both two today itself On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:18 AM, tanay bose tanaybos...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Balkar ji , Firstly note the typo in the spelling Homalocladium platycladum in the post by Sir Ji. Lastly I support the Sir Ji comment of Muehlenbeckia platyclada (F. Muell.) Meisn. being the synonym of Homalocladium platycladum, which is true according to GRIN. Thanks Tanay * * On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Balkar Arya balkara...@gmail.com wrote: Sir I think *Muehlenbeckia* *platyclados is a different plant * *i have both in my college will shot both today again and share* On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com wrote: I hope Homacladium platycladum (F. Muell.) L. H. Bailey (syn: * Muehlenbeckia* *platyclados* (F.Muell.) Meisn..) Family Polygonaceae -- 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, Jul 19, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Balkar Arya balkara...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All pls id this garden shrub shot from a Nursery in Karnal Haryna. Never seen before height was about 4 feet, flowers less than 1 cm. flowers were on leaves? Nurserymen could not provide any name of this plant -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964 -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964 -- *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 *Webpages:* http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/mberbee.html http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/gradstud.html https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964 -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103
Re: [efloraofindia:76212] Re: Pterospermum acerifolium CORRECTION name ,Local name : Kanak champa
This is what I was trying to explain Sarkar ji in one of his Valmiki thread, that Muchkund and Kanakchapa are different. But as I don't remember the Sc. Name and no one else objected I kept quite. Kanakchapa has golden colour thick sepals while Muchkund has white ones. Flowers of Kanakchampa are smaller while of Muchkund larger. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Ushadi micromini microminipho...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 22:48:53 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:76205] Re: Pterospermum acerifolium CORRECTION name , Local name : Kanak champa Neil. small point... Muchakunda in Bengali and Hindi refers to * Pterospermum suberifolim...* (not * P. acerifolium* ...which is Kanak champa in most north indian vernaculars)... Usha di === On Aug 5, 1:20 pm, Neil Soares drneilsoa...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, My photographs of Pterospermum acerofolium. Regards, Neil Soares. --- On Fri, 8/5/11, Neil Soares drneilsoa...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Neil Soares drneilsoa...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:76104] Pterocarpus acerifolium To: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com, Anantanarayan Rajaram rajaram_an...@yahoo.com Date: Friday, August 5, 2011, 1:32 PM Hi, There seems to be a mistake. It should be Pterospermum acerofolium [Kanak Champa, Muchkund]. Will send my photographs of this later. Regards, Neil Soares. --- On Fri, 8/5/11, Anantanarayan Rajaram rajaram_an...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Anantanarayan Rajaram rajaram_an...@yahoo.com Subject: [efloraofindia:76092] Pterocarpus acerifolium To: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, August 5, 2011, 11:53 AM I am attaching a few pics of Pterocarpus acerifolium which I took at the Amrita University campus near Coimbatore last month in July. Searching the efloraofindia group, there does not seem to be any previous mention of this species.Thanks and regards Rajaram Pterospermum acerfolium, Kanak Champa 1.jpg 167KViewDownload Pterospermum acerfolium, Kanak Champa 2.jpg 98KViewDownload
Re: [efloraofindia:76220] Re: Flora of Sahyadri Konkan-Rhamphicarpa Longiflora
Thanks Satishji. On this new site where Hariyali has taken plantation activity conditions are similar to kas. Except it is lowline place and hillocks are comparitively smaller. We see many flowers similar to Kas. On this land we can see pleny of these Tutaries ( Ramphicarpa- is it sophubia or something similar?). We are trying to see whether we can see some Utricularia or Drossera. But not yet seen. I have seen this Ramphicarpa inplenty on the platue of Velneshwar near Guhagar. There we can see Droserra as well as Utricularia sps. But both these places-- one is low line other is at height, I have seen them closed and druping in morning hours. Thank you._ Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Satish Phadke drsmpha...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 14:04:53 To: Madhuri Pejaverformpeja...@yahoo.com Cc: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com; Smilax004giby.kuriak...@gmail.com; Neil Soaresdrneilsoa...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:76216] Re: Flora of Sahyadri Konkan -Rhamphicarpa Longiflora Yes Madhuri ji You are perfectly right. I think we must have discussed this earlier. Some factor of humidity might also be important. The flowers are often seen open in humid dull atmosphere with less sunlight. whereas in bright sunny daytime open flowers are seldom seen.I doubt whether I am guessing or anyone wants to share experience about this? Satish On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.comwrote: As asked to Satishji do these flowers open in evening/night? because mostly in morning have seen them closed, druping. Madhuri --- On *Fri, 5/8/11, Neil Soares drneilsoa...@yahoo.com* wrote: From: Neil Soares drneilsoa...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:76144] Re: Flora of Sahyadri Konkan -Rhamphicarpa Longiflora To: efloraofindia indiantreepix@googlegroups.com, Smilax004 giby.kuriak...@gmail.com Date: Friday, 5 August, 2011, 6:45 PM Hi, Photographed last weekend. As Dr.Giby has pointed out flowering generally occurs on rocky areas [which have a thin layer of soil] between July and September . Sending a few photographs. With regards, Neil Soares. --- On *Fri, 8/5/11, Smilax004 giby.kuriak...@gmail.com* wrote: From: Smilax004 giby.kuriak...@gmail.com Subject: [efloraofindia:76134] Re: Flora of Sahyadri Konkan -Rhamphicarpa Longiflora To: efloraofindia indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, August 5, 2011, 5:54 PM If I am right the leaves of this species is very narrow and grows on thin layer of soil on rocks along with Utricularia spp Drocera spp and all. This plant is active with flowers only during rainy season and getting such nice pictures in the rain is great effort! New name of this plant is Rhamphicarpa fistulosa (Hochst.) Benth. of Scrophulariaceae family. If you could upload a picture of plant with leaves would be useful to understand more about the plant, for people who are new to such kind of plants. Thanks and Regards, Giby On Aug 5, 3:52 pm, Rajesh Sachdev leopard...@gmail.comhttp://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=leopard...@gmail.com wrote: Name of Species: Rhamphicarpa Longiflora Common Name: Tutari Family: Scrophulariaceae Conservation status: NA Photographed: 8th September, 2010 Location: Kas Platue, Western Ghats, Maharashtra Habitat Type : High Elevation Moist Grassland Camera: OLYMPUS SP570UZ Lens: OLYMPUS ED LENS AF ZOOM 4.6 - 92 mm, 1:2.8 - 4.6 Abundence: Known to be occasional in subjected region Kas-2.JPG 51KViewDownload
Re: [efloraofindia:76236] Re: Pterospermum acerifolium CORRECTIONname ,Local name : Kanak champa
Thank you Ushadi. In Mumbai one of it is in Jijamata Udyan. Just on the left where drinking water taps are. The other is planted on the road side from Kanjurmarg till a little further, on Estern express highway on right when we move from Thane to Mumbai. Previously even I was under impression that both of them are only one plant. But once in VJTI in annual flower show I coul see both seperate plants. If not mistaken the size and shape of leaves too differ. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: ushadi Micromini microminipho...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 18:23:43 To: formpeja...@yahoo.com Cc: Efloraindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:76229] Re: Pterospermum acerifolium CORRECTION name ,Local name : Kanak champa Madhuirji: yes you are right... about the colors...and the previous point, I seem to have missed the discussion... and No, you have the size of the flower mixed up... the P. suberifolium flower is about 1.5 to 2.0 inches long, and its fruit/capsule id 2 to 3 inches long... while P. acerifolium flower is about 5 inches long , the capsule is 5-6 inches long... that's a quick way to differentiate... We have several p. acerifolium trees in the streets of my neighbourhood and the Dhaukira lakes... and have to go to the zoo to find the P. suberifolium... next spring I will go deligently and take pictures of both ... would be interesting... Thanks Usha di = On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 12:21 PM, formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: This is what I was trying to explain Sarkar ji in one of his Valmiki thread, that Muchkund and Kanakchapa are different. But as I don't remember the Sc. Name and no one else objected I kept quite. Kanakchapa has golden colour thick sepals while Muchkund has white ones. Flowers of Kanakchampa are smaller while of Muchkund larger. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Ushadi micromini microminipho...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 22:48:53 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:76205] Re: Pterospermum acerifolium CORRECTION name , Local name : Kanak champa Neil. small point... Muchakunda in Bengali and Hindi refers to * Pterospermum suberifolim...* (not * P. acerifolium* ...which is Kanak champa in most north indian vernaculars)... Usha di === On Aug 5, 1:20 pm, Neil Soares drneilsoa...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, My photographs of Pterospermum acerofolium. Regards, Neil Soares. --- On Fri, 8/5/11, Neil Soares drneilsoa...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Neil Soares drneilsoa...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:76104] Pterocarpus acerifolium To: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com, Anantanarayan Rajaram rajaram_an...@yahoo.com Date: Friday, August 5, 2011, 1:32 PM Hi, There seems to be a mistake. It should be Pterospermum acerofolium [Kanak Champa, Muchkund]. Will send my photographs of this later. Regards, Neil Soares. --- On Fri, 8/5/11, Anantanarayan Rajaram rajaram_an...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Anantanarayan Rajaram rajaram_an...@yahoo.com Subject: [efloraofindia:76092] Pterocarpus acerifolium To: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, August 5, 2011, 11:53 AM I am attaching a few pics of Pterocarpus acerifolium which I took at the Amrita University campus near Coimbatore last month in July. Searching the efloraofindia group, there does not seem to be any previous mention of this species.Thanks and regards Rajaram Pterospermum acerfolium, Kanak Champa 1.jpg 167KViewDownload Pterospermum acerfolium, Kanak Champa 2.jpg 98KViewDownload
Re: [efloraofindia:75578] eFI woman of July'11- Dr. Usha Desai (among non-moderators)
Congratulations! The woman of the month. Nice reading it. Yes Gargji I accept she takes a lot of interest in the group, tell nice stories, and gives a prank when needed. She appears to be self made, self moulded lady. Very perticular, and strict. Ushadi this is reading and appreciating you. Don't take it otherwise. Hahahah! Gargji you have included me too. Thank you, thank you! Just wait for my retirement. And then I will identify every flower which comes on eflora. (If till then any are left out! Hahahaha) Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: J.M. Garg jmga...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 11:18:11 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Cc: Ushadi microminimicrominipho...@gmail.com Subject: [efloraofindia:75574] eFI woman of July'11- Dr. Usha Desai (among non-moderators) Dear all, She joined recently in Feb'11. But has taken immense interest since then in eFI. This is what she has to say while joining eFI: Usha Desai, MD Research and Medicine my avocation, done a lot of micro, macro , electron microscopy in past, and now studying Ethnobotany , my motto is Trees Are Our Mashima©. Photographing Trees of Calcutta is one of my ambitions esp tracking down and documenting trees that Benthill wrote about. Just discovered your group through Wikipedia while searching for Ceiba pentandra which is flowering this week 2/25 to 2/28 2011 in Calcutta will be pleased immensely if you allow me to join your groupit seems only member can ask for id of unrecognised trees etc , it would help me if I could ask for advice. Thanks, Usha May be other members know more about her. Already she has sent 140 messages in July'11 is the highest poster among non-moderators. Other top five contributors among non- moderators are Aarti ji, Hemson (Alfred) ji, Mahadeswara ji Madhuri ji. -- 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 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 1630 members 73,000 messages on 30/6/11) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of around 5000 species)
Re: [efloraofindia:75591] eFI woman of July'11- Dr. Usha Desai (among non-moderators)
Thank you, thank you Aha! Gurucharanji, gargji !!! Help help. I am so sorry that since I was the only Madhuri interacting till last few days, I took it for granted that it is me. But it won't be. It must be. Madhuri Raut and not me! I am sorry that I snached away her credit. Dear Madhuri I know you sign as Bhagyashree. But your email I'd says Madhuri raut. Generally when people respond they respond to the mail I'd. It has happened with NaBhaji. Repeatedly poor lady has tried to explain that her name is Nilima, but people like me call her Nabhaji only. Like HS, and so on. The problem is I have only one name from my birth. Not even a pet name or short form. So! I can't change my name. If you can change your mail I'd as Bhagyashree raut things will change. Or else I have to be very careful and concious hence forth. I am really sorry group members and Madhuri raut. Madhuri Pejaver Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 11:51:27 To: formpeja...@yahoo.com Cc: J.M. Gargjmga...@gmail.com; Efloraindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com; Ushadi microminimicrominipho...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:75578] eFI woman of July'11- Dr. Usha Desai (among non-moderators) Congratulations Ushadi for being the eFl women for the month of July Congratulations Aarti ji, Hemson ji, Mahadeswara ji and Madhuri ji for being in the top line up -- 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 Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:35 AM, formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: ** Congratulations! The woman of the month. Nice reading it. Yes Gargji I accept she takes a lot of interest in the group, tell nice stories, and gives a prank when needed. She appears to be self made, self moulded lady. Very perticular, and strict. Ushadi this is reading and appreciating you. Don't take it otherwise. Hahahah! Gargji you have included me too. Thank you, thank you! Just wait for my retirement. And then I will identify every flower which comes on eflora. (If till then any are left out! Hahahaha) Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -- *From: * J.M. Garg jmga...@gmail.com *Sender: * indiantreepix@googlegroups.com *Date: *Mon, 1 Aug 2011 11:18:11 +0530 *To: *efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com *Cc: *Ushadi microminimicrominipho...@gmail.com *Subject: *[efloraofindia:75574] eFI woman of July'11- Dr. Usha Desai (among non-moderators) Dear all, She joined recently in Feb'11. But has taken immense interest since then in eFI. This is what she has to say while joining eFI: Usha Desai, MD Research and Medicine my avocation, done a lot of micro, macro , electron microscopy in past, and now studying Ethnobotany , my motto is Trees Are Our Mashima©. Photographing Trees of Calcutta is one of my ambitions esp tracking down and documenting trees that Benthill wrote about. Just discovered your group through Wikipedia while searching for Ceiba pentandra which is flowering this week 2/25 to 2/28 2011 in Calcutta will be pleased immensely if you allow me to join your groupit seems only member can ask for id of unrecognised trees etc , it would help me if I could ask for advice. Thanks, Usha May be other members know more about her. Already she has sent 140 messages in July'11 is the highest poster among non-moderators. Other top five contributors among non- moderators are Aarti ji, Hemson (Alfred) ji, Mahadeswara ji Madhuri ji. -- 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 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 1630 members 73,000 messages on 30/6/11) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of around 5000 species)
Re: [efloraofindia:75699] Ficus carica from our house in Srinagar, Kashmir
Why not start air layering one more branch? Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 10:15:12 To: mani nairmani.na...@gmail.com Cc: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com; TANAY BOSEtanaybos...@gmail.com; Aarti S. Khaleaarti.kh...@gmail.com; Gurcharan Singhsingh...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:75698] Ficus carica from our house in Srinagar, Kashmir Mani ji, Once i am allowed to move around my first visit should be your balacany. In that place how you manage to grow figs, watermelon, orchids and what not! great Madhuri --- On Tue, 2/8/11, mani nair mani.na...@gmail.com wrote: From: mani nair mani.na...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:75691] Ficus carica from our house in Srinagar, Kashmir To: Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.com Cc: efloraofindia indiantreepix@googlegroups.com, TANAY BOSE tanaybos...@gmail.com, Aarti S. Khale aarti.kh...@gmail.com, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Date: Tuesday, 2 August, 2011, 9:56 AM Beautiful figs Gurcharanji. We have one small fig tree growing in a big container. Like yours we also do not get the fig to eat as the bulbuls like it very much and they first come to know when they are ripe. Thanks for sharing. Regards, Mani. On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks. I have seen the plant, but not fruiting. I twas in the garden in one of relatives house. We use to take the big leaves for eating breakfast on it. Madhuri --- On Mon, 1/8/11, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com wrote: From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Subject: [efloraofindia:75564] Ficus carica from our house in Srinagar, Kashmir To: efloraofindia indiantreepix@googlegroups.com, TANAY BOSE tanaybos...@gmail.com, Aarti S. Khale aarti.kh...@gmail.com Date: Monday, 1 August, 2011, 9:12 AM Our favourite Ficus carica (Fig) tree in our house in Balgarden, Srinagar, Kashmir. Photographed today. Especially for Aarti ji and Tanay. The fruits ripen in succession and if we miss plucking it, they are gone next day. Birds like them more than us. -- 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/
Re: [efloraofindia:75706] Ficus carica from our house in Srinagar, Kashmir
Thank you Maniji. Reminder of Sundays Hariyali outing Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: mani nair mani.na...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 10:24:38 To: formpeja...@yahoo.com Cc: Efloraindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com; TANAY BOSEtanaybos...@gmail.com; Aarti S. Khaleaarti.kh...@gmail.com; Gurcharan Singhsingh...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:75698] Ficus carica from our house in Srinagar, Kashmir Thanks Madhuri ji, It is my pleasure to welcome you to my house to see my plants and trees. Yesterday only I was thinking of air layering one fig branch. I will do this Sunday. Regards, Mani.
Re: [efloraofindia:75569] Re: Shrub No.3 for ID plz. AND HOW TO BEHAVE
Sar ji I also really appreciate Tanay. But I miss his naughtiness now. He should keep his charm as a child, and not to become a old man. In one previous mail also I had commented that he is keeping quite and has reduced interactions. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 09:30:56 To: Ushadi microminimicrominipho...@gmail.com Cc: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:75565] Re: Shrub No.3 for ID plz. AND HOW TO BEHAVE Ushadi We missed your valuable comments. I am, however, becoming a fan of Tanay, seeing his pace of evolution and attainment of maturity since he joined the group. This group is known for high level of cordiality and fellowness. We have often been writing to new members to provide relevant information as per the prescribed format (which every person botanist or non-botanist can provide). True it is not possible for non-botanists to provide technical details but as I have been writing frequently, besides the format if mail is sent with some properly taken photographs, experts may be able to decifer details: 1. A photograph of the twig showing insertion of leaves, inflorescence, with one or more leaves in good view. 2. Side view close up of flower showing insertion of flower (if close up is properly taken, experts can study bract, pedicel, calyx, corolla from this). 3. Top view close up of flower to show stamens and carpels. 4. A photograph of fruit is always a bonus. With these photographs, place, altitude, date of photography, habit and habitat information, the job of the experts would be much more easier. -- 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 Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Ushadi micromini microminipho...@gmail.comwrote: On Jul 31, 8:03 pm, tanay bose tanaybos...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Giby Ji. I appreciate and understand that all the botanist always wants the best information from the plant around them to get it identified if not they feel frustrated. But we should also consider that most of the members in our group are non-botanist and have very little ideas about the technical morphological complexities in the plant. Though some non botanist members have great knowledge about such technical terminologies but still the majority stays unaware of it. Hence I think you can make such non-botanist members aware of what we actually expect from them in a more calm and refined manner rather getting too excited and robust. So that next time they can try to record the data from the field. I have no intentions to hurt you as you are one an assets in your group hence I believe you will take my words sporting without any hard feelings. Thanks Tanay On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Smilax004 giby.kuriak...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I repeatedly inform all who post pictures for id that please provide supporting information along with pictures. Information along with pictures would certainly ease the id process. In the case of the picture in this post we are not sure what is the habit of this plant. Non of the leaves are clearly visible in the picture. It is not clear whether there are thorns on the stem of this plant. It is not very clear that whether leaves are opposite or alternate. Not clear about the size of plant, leaf, flower etc. The number of lobs in the corolla is also crucial that is not clear. The person who take the picture might know all these things. If you provide such information it would be better to confirm the species. Making assumptions might lead to wrong id. Any way, we take several minutes to hours (sometimes) to id a plant. When take pictures please take more than one picture from different angle so as to include more details in one snap. When you download the pictures select the one that has maximum information to post for id. You may please visit Dinesh ji's photos @http://www.flickr.com/photos/ dinesh_valke/ to have an idea on this aspect. Therefore, I request all posters in this group to kindly take little bit of extra effort/time to provide necessary information (please see the format to post pictures for id). This not only would help us in id the plant but also help those who want to learn the species in detail. Regards, Giby On Jul 31, 11:53 am, Mymoon Moghul mogh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Please help with the ID. All taken in Chennai, South India in the month of july. Thanks regards Mymoon ID-3.JPG 133KViewDownload -- *Tanay Bose* Research Assistant Teaching Assistant. Department of Botany. University of
Re: [efloraofindia:75570] Re: Shrub No.3 for ID plz.
Great sirji Without even knowing B of Botany I am getting appreciated in this group! To be very frank a am not and was never a hard core Taxonomist whether it is Botany or Zoology. But a really appreciate nature's wonders. In the long run someone ask me name I won't remember. But photo or actual plant and its wonder I will. What I appreciate is the help rendered by every member to other in every possible small way. I appreciate the love of all of you towards the subject. And I like the sad feeling all of you feel if someone has to leave the group. That is the friendship without expectation. Thanks for Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 09:43:58 To: Ushadi microminimicrominipho...@gmail.com Cc: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com; J. M. Gargjmga...@gmail.com; tanay bosetanaybos...@gmail.com Subject: [efloraofindia:75567] Re: Shrub No.3 for ID plz. Ushadi And yes, In recent days I have developed new technique to judge size of parts that I may confuse later. (I remember once a photograph of Duranta erecta was shown in close up.I missed it for Thunbergia). I put flower, leaf or fruit on my hand/finger/nail and take photograph. This helps me later to know their size (as also size of pedicel, bract, calyx, corolla). This is crucial since many closely related species are often differentiated on the basis of size of these parts. And yes I must admit, you, Madhuri ji and Nalini ji have done a great service to the group through your writings. -- 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 Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com wrote: Ushadi I had sent these comments in another thread, I am repeating them here (We missed your valuable comments-this comment of mine is not relevant now) . I am, however, becoming a fan of Tanay, seeing his pace of evolution and attainment of maturity since he joined the group. This group is known for high level of cordiality and fellowness. We have often been writing to new members to provide relevant information as per the prescribed format (which every person botanist or non-botanist can provide). True it is not possible for non-botanists to provide technical details but as I have been writing frequently, besides the format if mail is sent with some properly taken photographs, experts may be able to decifer details: 1. A photograph of the twig showing insertion of leaves, inflorescence, with one or more leaves in good view. 2. Side view close up of flower showing insertion of flower (if close up is properly taken, experts can study bract, pedicel, calyx, corolla from this). 3. Top view close up of flower to show stamens and carpels. 4. A photograph of fruit is always a bonus. With these photographs, place, altitude, date of photography, habit and habitat information, the job of the experts would be much more easier. -- 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 Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Ushadi micromini microminipho...@gmail.com wrote: DEAR ALL I SECOND TANAY IN THIS WRITE UP. Giby ji: TAKE CARE WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT NOT nice to keep being churlish and telling people off... You have a lot of knowledge... my Grand ma used to say as the mango tree gets full of fruits it bows down more and more... so it is with human beings...as the knowledge increases, truly increases, we should become more humble... Please take your cues from Gurucharanji and Garg ji and Dinesh Valke ji .. .Dr. Vijayashankar Raman et al.. They may correct us from time to time, but they NEVER TELL US OFF. A group like this is only as good as it gets because of the Knowledge base of its members and the members' collegiality, congeniality and friendships that develop among its members PLEASE ALL, LETS KEEP IT THAT WAY... Regards, Usha di === On Jul 31, 8:03 pm, tanay bose tanaybos...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Giby Ji. I appreciate and understand that all the botanist always wants the best information from the plant around them to get it identified if not they feel frustrated. But we should also consider that most of the members in our group are non-botanist and have very little ideas about the technical morphological complexities in the plant. Though some non botanist members have great knowledge about such technical terminologies but still the majority stays unaware of it. Hence I think you can make such non-botanist members aware of what we actually
Re: [efloraofindia:75465] Re: Cryptocoryne retrospiralis
Great! Thanks Raju ji for sharing it. In the photo where those shoot like things are comming out I first thought that they are pnumatophores of mangroves. I doubt that in nature I would have dreamt it to be a plant. Thanks for showing an entirely diff plant. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: raju dasraj...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:23:18 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:75464] Re: Cryptocoryne retrospiralis Dear Muthuji, Madhuriji,Balkarji, Thank you for the appreciation. I have collected this species during my field survey at Assam. The habitat was semi evergreen, and the collection site is a perennial river bank with sand and pebbles. Very interesting to note that, I have seen this sp only from a single location and some mammals are seen to feed on this. I have photographed the phenophases of this species. The flowering was seen (Pic 12) during March-April and fruit (pic 56)during September- October. Regards, Raju Das On Jul 30, 7:32 pm, Balkar Arya balkara...@gmail.com wrote: Realy a new and interesting plant. thanks for sharing Raju ji On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.comwrote: Hello had never seen such plant. In one photo I can see lot of spiral outgroths comming from water. in other the spiral outgrowth has leaves at thr base. In third and next some tips are shown. WHAT ARE THEY? Madhuri --- On *Sat, 30/7/11, raju das dasraj...@gmail.com* wrote: From: raju das dasraj...@gmail.com Subject: [efloraofindia:75419] Cryptocoryne retrospiralis To: indiantreepix indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Saturday, 30 July, 2011, 12:20 PM Dear all, *Cryptocoryne retrospiralis* (Roxb.) Fisch. ex Wydler *(Araceae)* Please validate the ID Regards, -- Raju Das Nature's Foster -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -
Re: [efloraofindia:75364] eFI Man of the July'11- Sh. Gurucharan Singh
I protest! I know I will never win any rank in eflora, but the suggession given by me was not so bad that all members including sir ji, Garg ji, Ushadi should ignore it. Sending the same thread so anybody can follow what I say. At present I am crying with sorrow of getting ignored. Umm. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: formpeja...@yahoo.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:10:53 To: Efloraindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Reply-To: formpeja...@yahoo.com Subject: Fw: [efloraofindia:75324] eFI Man of the July'11- Sh. Gurucharan Singh Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: formpeja...@yahoo.com Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:01:45 To: J.M. Gargjmga...@gmail.com Reply-To: formpeja...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:75298] eFI Man of the July'11- Sh. Gurucharan Singh H!h! Congrats congrats! Time to celebrate sir ji! Balkar ji,Gibi ji, Ushadi ji, HS ji. You r in next line of celebration among the top five. Sooo? What is your idea of celebration? All of you should sent one best shot of your beloved plant? I know it is difficult to select one among all we love. But anyway you all will be repeated over months to come, along with Dineshji, Gargji himself, Pankaj ji, Tanay, Nabha ji , Mani ji, Vijayshankar ji, neil ji, and few more. Sir ji may be a permanent member. So you all will have ample of time to celebrate the lovely ones. S! Waiting. Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: J.M. Garg jmga...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:54:44 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:75298] eFI Man of the July'11- Sh. Gurucharan Singh Dear friends, From this month onwards, we start eFI Man/ Woman of the Month. For July'11, this goes to Singh ji for 307 messages already posted (upto 28/7/11) as per details below ( I think he would have won the maximum number of times since he joined): http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix/about?hl=en_IN Next closest is Balkar ji with 207 messages. And other substantial contributors are Giby ji, Usha di Hemson (Alfred) ji being among top five. -- 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 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 1630 members 73,000 messages on 30/6/11) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of around 5000 species)
Re: [efloraofindia:75369] eFI Man of the July'11- Sh. Gurucharan Singh
Sir ji Aap samze nahi. All your ideas accepted , appreciated. I have seen compilation from Satishji too. Point is celebration of your winning along with other four. Generally how we do celebration? Come togather and give a party, cut cake go for a picnic, hotelling etc. All this is not possible in this situation. Soo celebration to be done by you 5 winners (only) by sending the photograph of your beloved plant. Not best photograph. Can you get the diff in your suggession and mine? Waiting, waiting and waiting! Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:06:51 To: formpeja...@yahoo.com Cc: Efloraindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:75364] eFI Man of the July'11- Sh. Gurucharan Singh Madhuri ji Don't protest so early, otherwise who will entertain us with nice stories, anecdotes, lighthearted comments, etc. We already have a routine of uploading My best photograph of the Year uploaded by most members in the month of December, followed by a compilation of these by Satish Phadke ji in the month of January-February. If all members are willing we may increase frequency to more than one (say twice in year; four times in year; or monthly-though I fear there may not be enough photographs every month). There can be another option. Every month we select best photograph uploaded by a member. For this we can do voting on say first three days of the month (for selection of preceding month). Any nominated member (say Madhuri ji/Ushadi) can compile and declare result on say 5th of every month. Please give a thought to above suggestions. We should find ways to awaken sleeping members, and make awakened members more active. -- 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 Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 6:40 PM, formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: ** I protest! I know I will never win any rank in eflora, but the suggession given by me was not so bad that all members including sir ji, Garg ji, Ushadi should ignore it. Sending the same thread so anybody can follow what I say. At present I am crying with sorrow of getting ignored. Umm. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -- *From: * formpeja...@yahoo.com *Sender: * indiantreepix@googlegroups.com *Date: *Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:10:53 + *To: *Efloraindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com *ReplyTo: * formpeja...@yahoo.com *Subject: *Fw: [efloraofindia:75324] eFI Man of the July'11- Sh. Gurucharan Singh Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -- *From: * formpeja...@yahoo.com *Date: *Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:01:45 + *To: *J.M. Gargjmga...@gmail.com *ReplyTo: * formpeja...@yahoo.com *Subject: *Re: [efloraofindia:75298] eFI Man of the July'11- Sh. Gurucharan Singh H!h! Congrats congrats! Time to celebrate sir ji! Balkar ji,Gibi ji, Ushadi ji, HS ji. You r in next line of celebration among the top five. Sooo? What is your idea of celebration? All of you should sent one best shot of your beloved plant? I know it is difficult to select one among all we love. But anyway you all will be repeated over months to come, along with Dineshji, Gargji himself, Pankaj ji, Tanay, Nabha ji , Mani ji, Vijayshankar ji, neil ji, and few more. Sir ji may be a permanent member. So you all will have ample of time to celebrate the lovely ones. S! Waiting. Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -- *From: * J.M. Garg jmga...@gmail.com *Sender: * indiantreepix@googlegroups.com *Date: *Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:54:44 +0530 *To: *efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com *Subject: *[efloraofindia:75298] eFI Man of the July'11- Sh. Gurucharan Singh Dear friends, From this month onwards, we start eFI Man/ Woman of the Month. For July'11, this goes to Singh ji for 307 messages already posted (upto 28/7/11) as per details below ( I think he would have won the maximum number of times since he joined): http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix/about?hl=en_IN Next closest is Balkar ji with 207 messages. And other substantial contributors are Giby ji, Usha di Hemson (Alfred) ji being among top five. -- 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 Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group:
Re: [efloraofindia:75392] Re: Some suggestion regarding doing Botany
Sorry could not write for long. In Univ of Mumbai when you have to do graduation in science you have to take admission for B.Sc. Course in any college affiliated to Univ and attend the college regularly. We don't have correspondance course in all sc subjects. Though we have distance education B. Sc. course for IT and comp. Unless you do your B.Sc. You can't take admission for M.Sc. Whether by papers or research. So Ph. D. Is next to it. But just aquiring Ph. D. Does not mean you have lot of knowledge or you have gained it. What I feel is, you felt like doing Ph. D. To get knowledge. Actually in the above mentioned courses you will waste (?) Your 3+2+3(?) =8 yrs further. Instead my suggestion will be diff. You can do small courses to acquire basic knowlege of Botany as from BNHS, or UNIV of Mumbai distance education course of tree appreciation, horticulture and gardening, even it is in our college. And study on your own once you know basic terminologies. Wikipedia, google and best is eflora which will help you to understand better. Focus on some aspect of Botany , collect data and can publish your papers in research journals. 75% people on eflora who send best photographs and perfect ids are not botanists but are engineers, doctors, dentists, comp engineers, zoologists etc ect. And they contribute equal to botanists on the group and even write best refered books on flora So for getting knowledge Ph.D is not must. Hence I said why waste(?) Time? Start studying. Some courses on ecology are available for distance learning from Delhi. Best of Luck. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Aparna Watve aparnawat...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 06:31:10 To: Arunaaru_...@hotmail.com Cc: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:75150] Re: Some suggestion regarding doing Botany There is no distant education programme for BSC/MSC degree in botany and there cannot be one in near future too. This is because a science subject requires practicals in laboratories as of now, (almost 50% grading is on practical -laboratory work). If you already have MSC degree (botany), you can try entrance examinations for PHD in any university. If you get through, the PHDs can be carried out as a full scholar or part (from working away from the guide's dept) depending on rules of university and guide's choice. Mumbai univ and Pune univ both have MSC by research (although it is not common). But in both, some coursework is necessary, and a guide and host institute are a must. Only distance education course at the moment in field botany is at BNHS. Another weekly taught course is at ARI Pune Regards Aparna On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Aruna aru_...@hotmail.com wrote: Mumbai University still having the course of MSc in Botany by research. you can get the list of guides and the colleges to which they are affiliated from Fort University, thesis section. On Jul 23, 1:18 pm, Rajesh Sachdev leopard...@gmail.com wrote: Since we have many academics on this group who are from Botany background, I would like to seek kind advice, on if I can (at the age of 32 yrs) enroll for Distance Education Programme in B. Sc., M. Sc and Ph. D in botany? I am Real Estate professional (sales marketing background) and have been living in Distant suburb of Mumbai, which Institutes (specific faculty for Botany), I can apply for? -- Regards Rajesh Sachdevhttp://www.facebook.com/leopardguy -- Dr. Aparna Watve At present : 34/6, Gulawani Maharaj Rd. Pune 411004 9822597288/ 020-25430309 Otherwise: Asha Appt, Shanti Nagar, Ekata Colony Nr. BSNL tower, Akbar Ward, Seoni.480661 tel: 07692-228115 mobile: (0)9755667710
Fw: [efloraofindia:75324] eFI Man of the July'11- Sh. Gurucharan Singh
Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: formpeja...@yahoo.com Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:01:45 To: J.M. Gargjmga...@gmail.com Reply-To: formpeja...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:75298] eFI Man of the July'11- Sh. Gurucharan Singh H!h! Congrats congrats! Time to celebrate sir ji! Balkar ji,Gibi ji, Ushadi ji, HS ji. You r in next line of celebration among the top five. Sooo? What is your idea of celebration? All of you should sent one best shot of your beloved plant? I know it is difficult to select one among all we love. But anyway you all will be repeated over months to come, along with Dineshji, Gargji himself, Pankaj ji, Tanay, Nabha ji , Mani ji, Vijayshankar ji, neil ji, and few more. Sir ji may be a permanent member. So you all will have ample of time to celebrate the lovely ones. S! Waiting. Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: J.M. Garg jmga...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:54:44 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:75298] eFI Man of the July'11- Sh. Gurucharan Singh Dear friends, From this month onwards, we start eFI Man/ Woman of the Month. For July'11, this goes to Singh ji for 307 messages already posted (upto 28/7/11) as per details below ( I think he would have won the maximum number of times since he joined): http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix/about?hl=en_IN Next closest is Balkar ji with 207 messages. And other substantial contributors are Giby ji, Usha di Hemson (Alfred) ji being among top five. -- 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 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 1630 members 73,000 messages on 30/6/11) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of around 5000 species)
Re: [efloraofindia:74948] Re: Calotropis gigantea from Bel pattarHaerbalgarden Samalkha Panipat
Dear HS ji I think the first line of my mail was to be considered. I had written that old thread should exist. Because I remember the discussion on the group of white and purple colour flower Calatropis. Latter a whole series of fruit dehiscence also appeared on the group. Whether to offer to any god is our perseption. But I was more focused on prior scientific discussion. Sorry the discussion got washed away from the main thread. Anyway the photographs of the flowers sent by you are really good. Thanks and regards Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: H S hemsan...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 11:18:33 To: Balkar Aryabalkara...@gmail.com Cc: Mahadeswaraswamy.c...@gmail.com; efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:74944] Re: Calotropis gigantea from Bel pattar Haerbalgarden Samalkha Panipat Its individual perception, regards, On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Balkar Arya balkara...@gmail.com wrote: Yes HS ji But as per theplantlist.org *Calotropis* *gigantea* (L.) Dryand. is an accepted http://www.theplantlist.org/about/#accepted name On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Balkar Arya balkara...@gmail.com wrote: Yes Mahadeswara ji and Madhuri Ji, Offered to Lord Ganesh On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Mahadeswara swamy.c...@gmail.comwrote: In Southeri India especially Tamil Nadu , the flowers are offered to Lord Ganesha during the Ganesha festival as well as in the pullaiyar koils (temple).. On Jul 23, 3:59 pm, formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: I think old thread should exist on it. As in Marathi it is called Mandar, loved by Lord Ganesha. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: H S hemsan...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:14:47 To: Balkar Aryabalkara...@gmail.com Cc: indiantreepixindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:74856] Calotropis gigantea from Bel pattar Haerbal garden Samalkha Panipat some author treat this as var. alba (white flowers) regards, On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Balkar Arya balkara...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All Calotropis gigantea From Herbal garden Samalkha Panipat -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964 -- - H.S. A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964 -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964 -- - H.S. A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone
Re: [efloraofindia:74859] Calotropis gigantea from Bel pattar Haerbalgarden Samalkha Panipat
I think old thread should exist on it. As in Marathi it is called Mandar, loved by Lord Ganesha. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: H S hemsan...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:14:47 To: Balkar Aryabalkara...@gmail.com Cc: indiantreepixindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:74856] Calotropis gigantea from Bel pattar Haerbal garden Samalkha Panipat some author treat this as var. alba (white flowers) regards, On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Balkar Arya balkara...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All Calotropis gigantea From Herbal garden Samalkha Panipat -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964 -- - H.S. A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone
[efloraofindia:74908] Three cheers
Long live eflora! Long live all members! May god give long life to all the members and all the plants on planet Earth so that all of them can be identified and documented! Congrats to old timmers! Welcome to new commers! Hats off to all teachers, photographers, nature lovers, plant lovers, doctors, engineeres, botanists, nonbotanists and Storytellers! Congratulations from the bottom of my heart! Gagji and Gurucharanji pl accept my salute! Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel
Re: [efloraofindia:74681] Re: Flora of Panipat- Gomphrena haageanafrom a nursery in Panipat
Great teacher! Thank u Pankaj ji Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Pankaj Kumar sahanipan...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:15:09 To: Gurcharan Singhsingh...@gmail.com Cc: Balkar Aryabalkara...@gmail.com; efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:74658] Re: Flora of Panipat- Gomphrena haageana from a nursery in Panipat I will give you another example. Lets say Amit is Sumit's father. So if I say, Amit's Sumit or Sumit is as intelligent as Amit. then it does make a difference as first sentence is very casual but second sentence is a praise. Similarly if you say Hooker's Iris and then Iris as handsome as Hooker, then there is a praise in second. Botanically it doesnt change anything, but in grammar they are different. :)) Regards Pankaj On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Pankaj ji I never thought use of -ii or -i does lower the importance of a person. I thought it is personal choice of author to use the name as genitive (possessive) form (-hookeri) or adjective (-hookeriana). I can't imagine Iris of Hooker (Iris hookeri) is less decorative than Hooker Iris (Iris hookeriana). -- 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 Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Pankaj Kumar sahanipan...@gmail.com wrote: According to me the issue is different sir. Haagei could be one option when the word ends in a vowel. Orther such examples are 'hegdei', 'maderoi' and 'rosei' When Haagei is there it means Haage's Gomphrena, which in turn can be ideally or wrongly perceived as the plant was originally collected by Haage but described by someone else. Here 'Haage' is used as a 'Noun'. Haageana means Haagean Gomphrena, which could mean, as beautiful as Haage. Here 'Haage' is used as an 'Adjective'. Some other examples are, 'weddelliana', 'congniauxiana' and 'wallichiana'. It is then followed by 'a' or 'us' or 'um', to denote the gender. In first case, the importance to the person is lessened but in second case you are kind of admiring the person by giving a name after him. Regards Pankaj On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com wrote: Since the name ends in a vowel, -an is added after the person name instead of ian (for names ending in consonant), and then the usual gender ending -a, -um or -us as the case may be. -- 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 Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Balkar Arya balkara...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Pankaj Ji for details On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Dr Pankaj Kumar sahanipan...@gmail.com wrote: That is very peculiar species name and so I just tried to look for information why the plant has been named this way. Actually the species name is to commemorate J.N. Haage (1926-78), a German plant collector and seedsman. Regards Pankaj On Jul 20, 6:00 am, Balkar Arya balkara...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All Gomphrena haageana A Garden Annual Herb shot from a nursery in Panipat pls validate -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964 Gomphrena haageana (1).JPG 330KViewDownload Gomphrena haageana (3).JPG 188KViewDownload Gomphrena haageana (4).JPG 210KViewDownload Gomphrena haageanaSm.JPG 494KViewDownload -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964 -- *** 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 -- *** 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:74566] Trees falling in monsoon
Dear Maniji According to the requirement of plantation we need to have the pit dug minimum 3 feet deep and 2 to 3 feet wide and long. We have to plant the sapling of atleast one to two year old. As you can see most of rhe time the plantation on road side is done by Municipal corporetions of those areas. They give contract, then like typical- the person dig only one foot pit. Even not broad. Many a times it is on lower tat/concrete. The rooting area remains out of the pit. The lower tar prevents penetration of roots. Then the caporation thinks of either digging, repairing, pavemaking etc etc. Where the tree gets futher uprooted, damaged and then can't withstad the wind. When we do plantation on our plantation site you should see the wind vilocity there,its all open barren land but no single plant gets uprooted this and fall down. If you are interested I will forward the Hariyali mail to the group. You can join first time to the group or can go on your own to explore the flora you will love the site. It is similar to Kas. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: mani nair mani.na...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:48:01 To: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:74552] Trees falling in monsoon Dear friends, There was a news day before yesterday that in Mumbai one young lady and her daughter died due to the falling of a tree on them. Very sad news. Because of no falt of theirs they have to suffer. Our Municipality and the theatre owners are passing the buck. Last year also so many trees fell during the monsoon in Mumbai and that too big strong trees are falling. What could be the reason other than strong wind for the falling of trees ? and what we can do from our end to protect them ? Please help. Regards, Mani Nair
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Fw: [efloraofindia:74568] Trees falling in monsoon
Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: formpeja...@yahoo.com Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:13:34 To: mani nairmani.na...@gmail.com; Efloraindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Reply-To: formpeja...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:74552] Trees falling in monsoon Dear Maniji According to the requirement of plantation we need to have the pit dug minimum 3 feet deep and 2 to 3 feet wide and long. We have to plant the sapling of atleast one to two year old. As you can see most of rhe time the plantation on road side is done by Municipal corporetions of those areas. They give contract, then like typical- the person dig only one foot pit. Even not broad. Many a times it is on lower tat/concrete. The rooting area remains out of the pit. The lower tar prevents penetration of roots. Then the caporation thinks of either digging, repairing, pavemaking etc etc. Where the tree gets futher uprooted, damaged and then can't withstad the wind. When we do plantation on our plantation site you should see the wind vilocity there,its all open barren land but no single plant gets uprooted this and fall down. If you are interested I will forward the Hariyali mail to the group. You can join first time to the group or can go on your own to explore the flora you will love the site. It is similar to Kas. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: mani nair mani.na...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:48:01 To: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:74552] Trees falling in monsoon Dear friends, There was a news day before yesterday that in Mumbai one young lady and her daughter died due to the falling of a tree on them. Very sad news. Because of no falt of theirs they have to suffer. Our Municipality and the theatre owners are passing the buck. Last year also so many trees fell during the monsoon in Mumbai and that too big strong trees are falling. What could be the reason other than strong wind for the falling of trees ? and what we can do from our end to protect them ? Please help. Regards, Mani Nair
Re: [efloraofindia:74607] Hello, I am a new member!
Welcome to the group. We also have a subgroup of storytellors hidden among the scientists. So now we have a real story teller. Welcome by the story teller group too Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Sharada Balasubramanian sharadawri...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:39:16 To: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:74592] Hello, I am a new member! Hello everyone, I am Sharada and new to this group. I am a writer by profession and after a 8-yr stint in journalism, I now write actively on environmental issues, specifically on conservation. My aim is to write on conservation education and reach out to the masses to educate through writing. I coordinate and work with different scientists and then understand the essence of what they do and put it across to people to understand what happens. I currently write for TerraGreen on environment and sustainability. I also occasionally write for newspapers on environment. I am happy to be a part of this group! I hope to learn and interact with a lot of people, and gain more knowledge. Thank you! Sharada -- www.sharadabalasubramanian.in wildlifemusings.wordpress.com
Re: [efloraofindia:74621] Re: Hello, I am a new member!
Well said Three cheers to efloraindia! Madhuri --Original Message-- From: Dr Pankaj Kumar Sender: Efloraindia To: Efloraindia Subject: [efloraofindia:74619] Re: Hello, I am a new member! Sent: Jul 20, 2011 8:26 PM Dear Sharada mam, Firstly thanks a lot for joining our group. Now that I know that you are a writer/journalist, I am tempted to ask you for a favour. This is my personal view so please dont misunderstand it. This efloraofindia is the first and only one of its kind that exists in India where members are from varied background but share information on plant diversity. Me sitting on my chair in the foothills of Himalaya at Wildlife Institute of India, with access to internet can know what plants are flowering in South India in the western Ghats and at the same time what is in flowering in the north east Himalaya. Members have been selflessly sharing the information and expertise to each and every posts. This is really getting into a form of an online organisation. So, why dont you write an article about it and let people know about our efforts. Let people know how a common man from various background can get involved in scientific information sharing by making best use of resources available for free. They just need to devote some time out of their usual work. This will help us gain more members as well a expertise and ultimately a better database on indian plants. Regards Pankaj On Jul 20, 7:40 pm, Ushadi micromini microminipho...@gmail.com wrote: Welcome, Sharada ji... there are so many issues that need raising awareness about, that a trained journalist who takes an active interest in the issue and writes/ expresses herself well is very welcome... Usha di = On Jul 20, 7:08 pm, formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: Welcome to the group. We also have a subgroup of storytellors hidden among the scientists. So now we have a real story teller. Welcome by the story teller group too Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Sharada Balasubramanian sharadawri...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:39:16 To: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:74592] Hello, I am a new member! Hello everyone, I am Sharada and new to this group. I am a writer by profession and after a 8-yr stint in journalism, I now write actively on environmental issues, specifically on conservation. My aim is to write on conservation education and reach out to the masses to educate through writing. I coordinate and work with different scientists and then understand the essence of what they do and put it across to people to understand what happens. I currently write for TerraGreen on environment and sustainability. I also occasionally write for newspapers on environment. I am happy to be a part of this group! I hope to learn and interact with a lot of people, and gain more knowledge. Thank you! Sharada -- www.sharadabalasubramanian.in wildlifemusings.wordpress.com Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel
Re: [efloraofindia:74653] Re: VALMIKI : OBSERVER OF NATURE
In Marathi other name Kevada. It is famous for the cobra residing in the thicket of plant growth. The inflorescence made up of small/miniature flowers. (Compound receme?) It is covered by yellow colour bract(??), which actually has great fragrance. This bract is offered to Lord Ganesha. Sold in Mumbai market at the rate of rs 40 to 100 per bract in Ganesh festivel. Kevada attar (permume) is very famous. Pandanus is a typical example of multiple root cap. In Thane on Godbandar road in my child hood acers and acres of land had pandanus plants as this is a marshy area. Now hardly some 50 to 100 plants are seen on road side, as entire area is under costruction (distruction) stage. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Ushadi micromini microminipho...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:49:40 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:74646] Re: VALMIKI : OBSERVER OF NATURE what are/is the indian name besides ketaki that colonel sarkar gave us... i want to know beyond that...like local names? any body? usha di === On Jul 20, 9:59 pm, mchunkat mohan.chunk...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, As usual things are a bit more complicated. This is what I found on the net. --- Short Communication Collection, characterization and olfactory evaluation of Pandanus species in Southern India Rahul L. Zanana1 and Altafhusain B. Nadafa1 c1 a1 Department of Botany, University of Pune, Pune 411007, India Abstract A detailed survey along the coastal regions of Southern India revealed the occurrence of seven Pandanus species, viz. P. kaida Kurz., P. odorifer (Forssk.) Kuntz., P. canaranus Warb., P. furcatus Roxb., P. thwaitesii Mart., P. foetidus Roxb and a new species P. palakkadensis Nadaf, Zanan Wakte. The fragrance of staminate inflorescences of these species was compared with the fragrance of commercial staminate inflorescences of P. odorifer. P. thwaitesii, P. kaida and P. palakkadensis recorded comparable fragrance with that of P. odorifer. The study reveals the fragrance potential of these species, which could be exploited commercially for extraction of essential oil. (Received February 24 2011) (Accepted May 04 2011) --- Could somebody throw more light on this.. Thanks. Mohan Chunkath On Jul 20, 7:40 pm, Col Bimal Sarkar colbimalsar...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear Friend, Valmiki mentioned about Ketak or Ketaki in his Ramayan.It is known as SCREW-PINE in English.Scientifically it is known as Pandanus odoratissimus.Chakravarti S Venkatesh gives some interesting input about the plant. I t appears that the ancient Hindus,like the Babylonians,had some inkling of the presence of sex in plants.For example,the male plants of the Screwpine were called Ketaki viphala or Dhulipushpika,the female as Svarna Ketaki,and the male and female together as Ketakidvayam meaning a pair of Ketakis. Attaching an image of KETAKI. Regards Col (Retd) Bimal Sarkar Mobile: 9434194942 Ketak.jpg 124KViewDownload
Re: [efloraofindia:74401] Bonsai plants
Dear Srivastavji This is what I meant the pleasure given to the creater or owner. I can immagine the joy when the bonsai started fruiting, I can feel the joy of your family when everyday you see those fruits, water the plant etc. By any chance if the plant was allowed to grow in natural condition in mumbai suberb it would have ' gone with the wnd/ road/ building. Can send some photos to view your joy. Thanks. Let me put one point straight. Bonsai is not an alternative to natural condition. It is a parellel system. Otherwise I can't immagine a ficus growing on 18th floor nor watermelons comming in balcony of Maniji. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: kiran srivastava srivastava...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:12:22 To: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:74396] Bonsai plants Frankly I have mixed feelings about bonsai. We have some bonsai growing in my small balcony on the 17th floor in a suburb of Mumbai. We have one 18-year old ficus species that recently fruited for the first time and it gives us great joy to see it flourish like a miniature tree. Our Ficus virens has been fruiting since the last three/four months. A single stalk of Ficus bengalensis has grown almost a foot high with two stems of which one of them has ripe crimson fruits. Although we had initially planned on keeping bonsai we now don't trim the roots. So they are not true bonsai and are quite high. One of our 'bonsai' grew too tall and we gave it to the gardener to plant in the common garden of our residential complex. It is flourishing. Incidentally, a large banyan Tree came crashing down in the business district of south Mumbai, not far from my office. Maybe, it should have been trimmed judiciously by BMC experts considering the stronger velocity of winds during the monsoon period and the roots being truncated whenever there is some pavement/road digging for repairs, etc. A larger-than-life tree gone...forever! Regards, Kiran Srivastava Mumbai On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:48 AM, formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote: Someone has said you are right. Yes in one aspect you are. But other points to consider 1. People keep bonsai in house, balcany, small gardens in front of the house where space restriction comes. 2. No one make bonsai in forests and jungles where lot of space is available for individual plant to grow to full extent. 3. Bonsai are made of generally big growing trees, which are practically imposible to grow in balcany with the size 4' by 6'. 4. Those who have access to open gardens infront of the house can grow max one or two big trees. 5. In such cases I feel bonsai atleast bring some greenary to the house, preserve the genome. 6. They continue to do the function of trees, that is producing oxygen, using carbondioxide etc etc. Neede in cement jungle. 7. Think about the asthetic beauty given by them. 8. Think about the people who are not actually been able to go out and admire the beauty. 9. Think about the creater's joy when a successful bonsai is achieved. 10. Looking at a flowering/ fruting/ prfectly shaped bonsai is soothing to mind, help in reducing BP. gives pleasures etc etc. I think benefits are more. I do have pictures of some beautiful bonsai. Will have to search. May send some time. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Kamal kamal.koth...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:27:59 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:74387] Bonsai plants Namaskaar I had a query for Bonsai plants. I am personally of the opinion that when a tree is grown as a Bonsai, we are actually stunting the growth artificially, virtually like making a pigmy of a human being. I feel sad when I see Bonsai plants. Such wonderful specimens grown in small pots/tubs. I am against this practice but would like some experts' views on my thoughts. Appreciate all inputs. Warm regards to the Group Kamal
Re: [efloraofindia:74403] Please Follow the format for ID
I could follow everything but how to decide post number. Is it my post number or eflora? Eg in your this mail it is efloraofindia 74395 . Does this get gemerated atomatically. Sorry didn't observe before. Now have time at hand, so learning something new. I wanted to tell Gargji too that I learnt resizing the photos too. In 2oo7 version the photoeditor option is fantastic. Learning 2007 version too. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:15:38 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:74395] Please Follow the format for ID This is for the attention of colleagues sending photographs for ID. 1. Subject line should be unique ID (dd+mm++initials+post number for the day) followed by the place (preferably city) where the plant was photographed. 2. Exact locality, its altitude should be indicated 3. Habitat where the plant was growing: cultivated, weed of cultivation, wastelands, roadsides, marshy area, aquatic etc. 4. Habit: Tree, shrub, woody climber, herbaceous climberr, annual herb, perennial herb, etc. 5. Aproximate height of the plant 6. Insersion of leaves, whether alternate (one at each point), opposite (two at each point) or whorled (more than two at each point) 7. Aproximate size of middle leaves 8. Flower diameter and length 9. Fruit size Although some members may find it difficult to provide all details, but they should try to give maximum possible information. For better identification the three photographs accompanying should be : a side view of branch showing clear view of leaves and flowers.; a close up of flower from the side to show bracts, calyx and corolla; a top close up of flower to show stamens and style/s. -- 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/
Re: [efloraofindia:74316] Re: Dashapushpam
He Maniji Great! Thanks! Yes all of them I am familiar with. I knew that there woul be durva and bramhi (bhrungraj). Expected Maka too and terda_ balsum. Thanks again Dinesh ji ur turn. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: mani nair mani.na...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:35:41 To: Satish Phadkedrsmpha...@gmail.com Cc: Smilax004giby.kuriak...@gmail.com; efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:74310] Re: Dashapushpam Dear Madhuri ji, I can give the translation of the following plants names to Marathi. 1. Karuka - Dhruva grass - it is offered to Ganesha. 2. Kayyonni- Brigaraj - it is used in hair oil 3. Nilappana - Kali Musali - used in tonics 4. Mukkutti- Lajwanti For more details of above and translation of remaining over to Dinesh ji. Regards, Mani Nair.
Re: [efloraofindia:74323] Re: Dashapushpam
Great work Gibiji Thanks for sharing. May God give all of you more and more strength to plant more and more trees. Let more and more people join in this ospiceous work Madhuri Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Smilax004 giby.kuriak...@gmail.com Sender: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:19:53 To: efloraofindiaindiantreepix@googlegroups.com Subject: [efloraofindia:74300] Re: Dashapushpam Thanks Deviji for sharing this. May I share my experience in connection with dasapushpam and nakshthra marangal (trees of zodiac signs)? I have been involved in planting dasapushpam, trees of zodiac signs (http://thenmala.info/trees.html) in collaboration with forest department and different temple authorities in different parts of Kerala. It was a good experience as people from different corners (school College) students, teachers, involved in the program to restore a Kavu (sacred forest) last month in Central Kerala (Nagapuzha, near Thodupuzha in Idukki district of Kerala). Here people have realized the fact that they have lost the natural habitat near the pristine Kavu by the activity of different authorities handled the temple for the last 30-40 years. During this period they have renovated and temple (which was just a small idol beneath a tree when the kavu was there) and build new temple and expanded the existing one. Now they realize that unless they get the kavu back, the divinity of the area would not be complete. Now they are planting trees and other plants with local importance. I am in the restoration committee along with experts from different fields. We insisted them plants (only indigenous/endemics) of ethnic and medicinal importance. We suggested trees of zodiac signs (Nakshathra marangal), Dasapushpangal, Dasamoolangal (major plants used in the preparation of Dasamoolarishtam, an ayurvedic preparation). Kerala Forest department and Devaswam Board are showing keen interest in generating awareness by planting trees in such places in collaboration with local people or interested public bodies towards conservation. MS Swaminathan Research Foundation regional station (MSSRF, Waynad, Kerala) is involved in such kind of activities in Kerala. They distribute seedlings of these trees/plants as well! Thanks and Regards, Giby On Jul 17, 8:24 am, Devi Nair tcld...@gmail.com wrote: The month of Karkkidakam has started today as per the Malayalam calendar. This is the wettest month of the season and the ten sacred flowers, 'Dashapushpam', are given a lot of importance in rituals. This is because it is also the season when a lot of illnesses surface due to the damp weather. Even though they are termed as flowers, in reality it is the whole plant and the leaves that are medicinal. The flowers in most cases are small and inconspicuous. Many of these can also be used as pot herbs and added to batters or Dhals to make healthy and tasty dishes. The leaves of of the Mukkutti are crushed and the greenish black juice is used by the women to make a bindi during this month. It is supposed to attract 'Shree' , prosperity. *Dashapushpam* * * * * * * 1. Karuka Cynodon dactylon 2. Valli uzhinja Cardiospermum halicacabum 3. Poovankurunnela Vernonia cinerea 4.Muyalchevian Emilia sonchifolia 5.Kayyonni Eclipta alba 6.Nilappana Curculigo orchioides 7.Vishnukranti Evolvulus alsinoides 8.Mukkutti Biophytum sensitivum 9.Cherula Aerva lanata 10.Thirutali Ipomoea sepiaria Regards, Devi
