Nice catch of the plant sir ji !!! Tanay On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Pankaj Oudhia <pankajoud...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Let me continue the interesting discussion. > > In wheat fields in India, Anagallis grows with Chenopodium, Melilotus and > Sphaeranthus. As fish poison, the use of Sphaeranthus is preferred. In order > to increase its performance Anagallis, collected before flowering, is added. > To make it more strong remaining two species are added. > > Anagallis is toxic plant. In order to nullify its harmful effects it is > used with Chenopodium. The harmful effects of Melilotus commonly known as > Senji is nullified by Sphaeranthus. All these species are used with Wheat > grass in different combinations. > > The presence of these fives in wheat fields have special purpose. Mother > Nature arranged it for welfare of humanbeings. The greedy humanbeings see > only wheat as crop and destroy other gifts as weed and in this way loose the > golden oppurtuniy to get benefit from it. > > regards > > Pankaj Oudhia > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:35 PM, nabha meghani <nabha-megh...@gmx.de>wrote: > >> Thank you Gurcharan ji, >> for sharing these beautiful fotos. >> These flowers are quite common here and I don't take notice of them. After >> watching your fotos I think I must always carry my fotoapparat with me, >> whenever I go out, even to the grocer for shopping. >> Ther germanname of the plant is Gaukheil (heeling mentalproblems) and was >> used to treat melancholie. Wetterkraut (weatherindicator) or Nebelpflanze >> (fogplant) are other names. >> I read in my book that in india the plant is used by fishers to catch fish >> because it is light toxic. >> Regards >> Nalini >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >> *From:* Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> >> *To:* Tabish <tabi...@gmail.com> >> *Cc:* efloraofindia <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> >> *Sent:* Monday, July 26, 2010 9:51 AM >> *Subject:* Re: [efloraofindia:42340] Re: Anagallis arvensis ssp. arvensis >> >> Thanks Prashant ji, Tabish ji and Pankaj ji for encouraging comments. >> >> >> -- >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Retired Associate Professor >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ <http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Tabish <tabi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> The Blue Pimpernel and the Scarlet Pimpernel both are often called >>> shepherd's weather glass or shepherd's clock because the flowers close >>> before sunset or if it is about to rain. These brightly colored >>> flowers appear as bright dots in the field, which dramatically >>> "disappear" when the flowers close, if the sky is overcast or the sun >>> is about to set. Closed flowers are quite hard to notice because of >>> their dull color. >>> - Tabish >>> >>> On Jul 26, 12:17 pm, Pankaj Oudhia <pankajoud...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > Nice pictures Gurcharan ji. Not sure about the medicinal properties of >>> this >>> > type as blue flowered Anagallis is very common in crop fields specially >>> in >>> > winter season crops in my region. Anagallis is known as Poor man's (or >>> > farmer's) weather clock as its flowers close before bad weather. Again >>> I am >>> > not sure whether your Anagallis is also having same property or not? >>> > >>> > While walk in forest when we get injury from Tribulus or Asteracantha >>> spines >>> > the Healers use local herbs whereas I prefer use of Anagallis as >>> > Homoeo-drug. It acts in miraculous way. >>> > >>> > Anagallis arvensis possess benefical Allelopathic properties. I tried >>> it on >>> > different medicinal and aromatic crops, at first in lab and then in >>> fields, >>> > and now my farmers are using it. >>> > >>> > Accprding to weed researchers it is a curse but for the farmers aware >>> of its >>> > healing properties it is boon. This is the reason in general they >>> ignore >>> > research recommnedations specially in the field of weed management. >>> > >>> > regards >>> > >>> > Pankaj Oudhia >>> > >>> > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com >>> >wrote: >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > > Have seen a lot of blue flowered Anagallis (Anagallis arvensis ssp. >>> > > foemina) in Delhi, usually growing at altitudes below 1500 m or so, >>> but was >>> > > lucky to find both subspecies in Kashmir. This one is A. arvensis >>> ssp. >>> > > arvensis with orange-red flowers fairly common in Kashmir in the >>> valley >>> > > (1600 m and above), photographed in June 26, 2010 from Srinagar. >>> > > -- >>> > > Dr. Gurcharan Singh >>> > > Retired Associate Professor >>> > > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >>> > > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >>> > > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >>> > >http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/<http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/> >>> <http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/> >> >> >> >> >> > -- Tanay Bose +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) 9830439691(Mobile)
