Another beautiful set of images. I have not seen it in nature here in Uttarakhand. I. kemaonensis is common here and we have differentiated these two species in eFI. DSRawat Pantnagar
On Monday, December 19, 2016 at 10:49:28 AM UTC+5:30, JM Garg wrote: > > Thanks, Chadwell ji, for your inspiring words. > Pl. accept our good wishes for Merry Christmas. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: C CHADWELL <chrischadwell...@btinternet.com> > Date: 19 December 2016 at 10:13 > Subject: Christmas Gift for eFI google group members Part I: Iris > hookeriana 'Hooker's Iris' in Kashmir > To: "J.M. Garg" <jmga...@gmail.com> > > > Following advice from Mr Garg, it has been decided that members will be > able to view the > images I submit better, if I re-size them as 'Large Documents' rather than > compress, as I was > doing previously. > > As a 'Britisher' I am marking the festive period in the UK > by sending images of selected plants from: > Part I Kashmir; Part II Ladakh; Part III Himachal Pradesh; Part IV Nepal > to celebrate > the mountain flora of the Himalaya - and, hopefully, inspire members to > take LOTS of photos > of Himalayan plants during 2017. Especially, as in my present > circumstances, I cannot afford to travel > to the Himalaya to take any more shots myself! > > See attached images taken on Khelanmarg above Gulmarg on my last visit to > Kashmir a few years ago. > This Iris will be well known to those who visit the mountains of Kashmir > between April and July (though it > was into August when the attached pictures were snapped - flowering was > several weeks behind that year). > I trust my photos will bring back pleasant memories. It was my first time > back in Kashmir for more than 20 years. > > There has been long-standing confusion between Iris hookeriana and Iris > kemaonensis. I shall > comment more about this another time. > > Stewart recorded this as the common purple Iris of alpine meadows in > Kashmir - gregarious and > spreading as it is left alone by grazing animals (as is Euphorbia > wallichii). > > This Iris honours Hooker, a major contributor to knowledge of Indian flora. > > May I also take this opportunity of acknowledging Mr Garg and all those > who contribute to eFI. This project > seems to me to very much be in line with the admirable sentiment's of > India's first Prime Minister inscribed > below his statue in Manali, H.P. > > <https://sites.google.com/a/shpa.org.uk/main/home/14.png?attredirects=0> > > The world would be a better place if every nation and individual citizen > of the world adopted such an approach..... > > > Best Wishes, > > > Chris Chadwell > > > 81 Parlaunt Road > SLOUGH > SL3 8BE > UK > > www.shpa.org.uk > > > > > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> > > Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. > > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the > world- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). > > 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). You can also use them for free as > per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > -- 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 an 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.
