Nice discussion ! Thank you.
Saroj Kasaju On Wed, 26 Sep 2018, 11:02 Pankaj Kumar, <sahanipan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, the national plant of Florida should be conserved by Americans and > not the Chinese :)!! > The point is it is not important as is it not native to Asia. Of course > otherwise all plants are important. > Indeed there are lot of people working on conservation of this species in > Florida. > Cypripedium calceolus is so rare in UK that it is protected by police but > obviously it is distributed from Europe to Korea and Japan and Japanese > police dont protect them. > > > On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 at 13:09, Ushadi Micromini <microminipho...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Pankaj: >> Prosthechea cochleata (Encyclia cochleata). >> "Not local plant and hence not so important... " >> well its the national flower of Belize and found in southern swamps of >> Florida. >> <http://flnativeorchids.blogspot.com/search/label/Florida%20Clamshell%20Orchid%20%28Prosthechea%20cochleata%29.> >> (this blog also says that its population has dwindled drastically >> even though available freely from cultivators.) >> >> it comes from swamps of florida, so perhaps the glass box protected it >> from the a/c air? >> >> there is a fantastic bw photograph on this page >> <https://clydebutcher.com/pc/photographs/flowers-collection/>. about >> halfway down... love his photographs. >> >> enjoy >> usha di >> >> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 4:40 AM, Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Not local plant and hence not so important... >>> >>> >>> On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 at 00:12, Ushadi Micromini < >>> microminipho...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> may be it's pollen is precious >>>> i have seen people swab pollen from orchid flowers in botanical gardens >>>> like vanilla flowers, nobody can see them plucking flowers, >>>> yet the have just stolen most important genetic material. >>>> >>>> before that thieves would carry wire cutters to cut snips of vanilla >>>> vines >>>> or some tree dwelling ferns or orchids. now they cant, so they were one >>>> step ahead..... >>>> so on and so forth... >>>> >>>> or may be it needs different humidity and temp or can't tolerate air >>>> conditioning or breeze >>>> who knows? >>>> >>>> usha di >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 8:49 PM, Saroj Kasaju <kasajusa...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Thank you Amritpal Ji! >>>>> >>>>> Prosthechea cochleata (L.) W.E.Higgins >>>>> >>>>> Thank you Pankaj you are right. >>>>> However, looks like the park people need to >>>>> correct the ID! By the way why did they >>>>> keep in a glass encloser ? Precious? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Thank you. >>>>> >>>>> Saroj Kasaju >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 6:42 PM Amritpal singh < >>>>> amritsingh0...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Nice photographs sir.. >>>>>> On 24-Sep-2018 11:23 PM, "Saroj Kasaju" <kasajusa...@gmail.com> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Dear Members, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Location: Hong Kong Park >>>>>>> Date: 15 August 2018 >>>>>>> Elevation: 200 ft. >>>>>>> Habit : Cultivated >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Syn : Encyclia radiata (Lindl.) Dressler >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thank you. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Saroj Kasaju >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>>> Groups "efloraofindia" group. >>>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>>>> send an email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>>> To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. >>>>>>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >>>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "efloraofindia" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. >>>>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Usha di >>>> =========== >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ****************************************************** >>> **************************************************************** >>> *Pankaj Kumar*, Ph.D. >>> *IUCN-SSC Orchid Specialist Group Asia* >>> >>> *Office*: >>> >>> Orchid Conservation Section >>> >>> Flora Conservation Department >>> >>> Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG) Corporation >>> Lam Kam Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong S.A.R., China >>> >>> *email*: pku...@kfbg.org; sahanipan...@gmail.com >>> *Phone*: +852 2483 7128 (office - 8:30am to 5:00pm); +852 9436 6251 >>> (mobile); *Fax*: +852 2483 7194 >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Usha di >> =========== >> > > > -- > ****************************************************** > **************************************************************** > *Pankaj Kumar*, Ph.D. > *IUCN-SSC Orchid Specialist Group Asia* > > *Office*: > > Orchid Conservation Section > > Flora Conservation Department > > Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG) Corporation > Lam Kam Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong S.A.R., China > > *email*: pku...@kfbg.org; sahanipan...@gmail.com > *Phone*: +852 2483 7128 (office - 8:30am to 5:00pm); +852 9436 6251 > (mobile); *Fax*: +852 2483 7194 > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. 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