I have forwarded your mail to him. On 18 April 2015 at 21:00, Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you Dr Garg. How can we contact Prof Reddy of Thapar Institute as > suggested by Dr Kaviyarasan? > > Regards, > Ashwini > > On 18-Apr-2015, at 8:37 pm, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks, Venkatesan ji. > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Venkatesan Kaviyarasan > Date: 18 April 2015 at 20:20 > Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:220930] Morchella esculenta?/ABAPR09 > To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> > > > Dear Dr.Garg, > > Thank you for the nice picture of an* Morchella sp.* Recently > Prof.Sudhakara Reddy , of Thapar Institute has published an interesting > paper on the biodiversity and molecular taxonomy of Himachal Morchell a spp. > > In his personal communication he said that there is no esculentta spp in > India. Please refer his paper or contact him for further clarification. > > With kind regards > Kavi > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 12:57 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> >> Date: 12 April 2015 at 11:48 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:220930] Morchella esculenta?/ABAPR09 >> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> >> Cc: Narain Singh Chauhan <[email protected]> >> >> >> Friday, on my walk I met a young local boy collecting something on the >> slopes. Curious, I asked him what he was collecting and he was kind enough >> to climb down to show me a mushroom he was collecting with another woman. >> He told me that it was called Jhinjhiri (or chinchiri, I can't say exactly) >> and once dried fetched good price in the medicine market. A kilo of dried >> stuff went for about Rs 2000 he said. He allowed me to photograph it and I >> am sharing it with you. >> >> Another local woman later told me that she had eaten it in a vegetable >> dish but added that it was rare to get. If I am not wrong it looks like a >> Common Morel or *Morchella esculenta*. >> >> Dr Narain Singh Chauhan mentions it in his book for its medicinal >> properties (p. 268, *Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Himachal Pradesh*, >> 2nd ed.) and use as food. >> >> Please advise. >> >> *Morchella esculenta* (Common Morel) >> Above Mcleodganj, Dharamshala, HP >> 1800m >> 10 April 2015 >> >> Thanks. >> Ashwini >> >> <IMG_2974_10Aprl15.jpg><IMG_2977_10Aprl15.jpg> >> >> -- >> 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/d/optout. >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> >> The whole world uses my Image Resource >> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a >> thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. >> (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). 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