Wonderful photo and story, Sandhya ji. Regards. Dinesh On Sunday, 29 May 2022 at 19:29:05 UTC+5:30 JM Garg wrote:
> Published on > > https://efloraofindia.com/2022/05/29/sandhya-sasidharan-best-flora-photograph-to-celebrate-15-years-of-completion-of-efloraofindia-on-17-6-22/ > Posted it in the efloraofindia Facebook page > <https://www.facebook.com/efloraofindia/posts/1769636296707104?__cft__[0]=AZX4s7-g4ulsuA8bsiEq2-e9DHfZVk6glpT_i_uL7efmjeRbn6See5zl8GR775-Sg7-a-o_3HVt2KrLA29GA5o17Io3F2d4hCHrNKJdTkuiB8K0DzXbRz3x1zx6xygT2yu-4IF_AxOj0vsoYpuDoctr7EjhSqr7vuqIGk0mPNsOQ2g&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R> > . > Pl. give it wide publicity in Social media, by posting it in your profile/ > groups/ Instagram etc. > > On Sun, 29 May 2022 at 16:51, J.M. Garg <jmg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I would like to share the picture and the story of a little plant that >> came to me unbidden. Years ago it had sprouted in a grow bag in which I >> used to grow vegetables on my terrace. I still wonder how those tiny seeds >> made its way into the bag. This was a plant I had never seen before. I was >> sure that it belonged to Rubiaceae. I sought the help of my botanist friend >> Dr. Kunhikannan. At first he said he couldn’t identify it and asked me to >> keep a herbarium specimen for him which I did. Later he came up with the >> identification. It was Oldenlandia attenuata (Hedyotis attenuata) which >> apparently has been identified from two districts in Kerala, one of which >> was Trivandrum where I was living. Another location of identification was >> Maharashtra. I tried the internet for more information but nothing much was >> available. It just says it is a native of India and perhaps Vietnam. >> >> I was on the look out for the plant since then but I never found the >> plant in my neighbourhood. I came across it in other parts of the city >> only a couple of times, that too a tiny cluster clinging on to the recess >> of a wall. I had wanted to post it in eflora but somehow I didn’t ( I had >> photographed the plant in 2013). Looking at the eflora database now I can’t >> find this species. >> >> So I thought I would share this plant with you friends hoping that we can >> get to know more about the plant from our experts. Celebrating the 15 >> wonderful years of eflora with the story of this tiny plant, with lovely >> tiny white flowers, nothing flamboyant or glamorous… but silently >> continuing its journey with the sheer power of survival. >> - >> Sandhya Sasidharan >> > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > -- 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/7d448bef-98c6-477f-8bce-6cb3e8d4dd0an%40googlegroups.com.
