Thanks, Taffazull ji -- With regards, J. M. Garg
On Sun, 23 Oct, 2022, 10:58 am taffa...@gmail.com, <taffazu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Am posting another photo of red roots and orange buds characteristic of > this plant in autumn. In spring the buds will elongate very rapidly and > the climbing stems completely enfold any adjacent supporting structure like > a fence or a rose bush. For this reason gardeners consider it a > troublesome weed. It is striking that though madder was cultivated in > Kashmir till 1866 A.D. in places like Pampore- famous for its saffron- > today its use is completely forgotten and as far as my enquiries go people > here do not even have a Kashmiri name for this plant. > > On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 1:35:49 PM UTC+5:30 taffa...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> Kindly confirm if the plant is *Rubia wallichiana* .It was growing in a >> lawn* in *Srinagar .The stem is aciculate and square.The corolla of the >> flowers is white and most of the fruits are black and tiny 2-3 mm in dia >> though a very few were upto 5 mm in dia. >> >> Walter R.Lawrence in “The Valley of Kashmir” (1895) Chapter XIII p >> 344 writes that till Samvat 1923 ( 1866 A.D.) madder was cultivated in >> Kashmir and its roots sold at 8 Annas per Seer (at present rates about >> Rs350/Kg.).Rubia wallichiana is even today in use by Monpa people of Tibet >> and Arunachal Paradesh >> >> Yang R et al in their paper published in the *Nature *family Open Access >> Journal *Science Reports* write that: >> >> “ Synthetic dyes not only pollute the environment and damage ecosystems >> but can also be harmful to human health..Thus, an “eco-efficiency” concept >> has come into existence to bring economic and environmental viability >> together.. As a biodegradable and recyclable resource, natural dyes are >> gradually beginning to receive more attention*..(** Yang, R., Zhang, Y., >> Ranjitkar, S. et al. Reusing wasteroot of Rubia wallichiana dyeing from >> Monpa of Tibet in China.* *Sci Rep* *11*, 14331 (2021). >> https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93848-8 *)* >> >> Cultivation of *Rubia wallichiana* can be promoted as a sunrise industry >> in Kashmir. >> >> >> > -- > 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/1d2367e8-0553-4d47-9a8c-03f9e68dfb79n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/1d2367e8-0553-4d47-9a8c-03f9e68dfb79n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CA%2BiuSFCn%3DNVGBY28RE0%3DNkDaCHcW72U%3Dhp84%2B4zSUGE9dmVpUg%40mail.gmail.com.
