Good morning Pankaj Sir Isn't it very interesting that present India is full of foreign flora, including our very common vegetables too !?
Have a nice day Regards, surajit On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]>wrote: > When you say native conifers then it is different. If you say conifers are > distributed in wild in India then it means a different thing. India does > have many conifers, including some species of Pinus, Dedrus, Taxus, Picea > etc.... > > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Exactly this type of question I was expecting during the fortnightly >> episode not only about this but other species of gymnosperms too. >> I have gathered some of the information about Gymnosperms from a very >> interesting book : *"The secret Life of Trees" by Colin Tudge.* >> I would like to quote a sentence from the book related to above matter. >> India is strangely deprived of wild,native conifers. Conifers grow very >> well in India - in plantations. But apart from a few Eurasian types on the >> Himalayas, the only living native is *Nageia wallichiana* of the >> southern hemisphere podocarp family in the Western ghats in the southwest >> of the country. >> He further says that..... >> The reson might behistorical. India was wiped clean about 60 million >> years ago by the huge deccan volcanoes, which buried a greater part of the >> subcontinent in lava.The angiosperms, by then well established, seem to >> have been the first to get back in to the devastated land(although this >> idea clearly does not chime well with the conifers' reputation as >> outstanding pioneers. >> >> >> >> Dr Satish Phadke >> >> >> On 10 December 2013 07:49, surajit koley >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Sir, >>> >>> May I know how many and what species of *Araucaria* can be found in our >>> country and how to identify them? >>> >>> Thank you, >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> surajit >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:44 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Forwarding again for Id assistance please. >>>> >>>> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> From: Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> >>>> Date: 3 December 2013 00:27 >>>> Subject: [efloraofindia:176247] Gymnosperms fortnight :: Araucariaceae >>>> » ¿ Araucaria ? in a garden of Mumbai :: DV07 >>>> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Gymnosperms fortnight >>>> Araucariaceae ... araucaria family >>>> ¿ *Araucaria* ? sp. >>>> Dear friends, I hope this burnt photo gives a clue - hoping it to be >>>> species of *Araucaria*.at Chota Kashmir garden, Mumbai on 11 MAR 07 >>>> >>>> >>>> <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F423937081%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzdM6uQRuCTiqadJE0iFDwapSN5eRg> >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards. >>>> Dinesh >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> With regards, >>>> J.M.Garg >>>> 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. 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