Dear all, I agree, a single close up picture can not show all the details required for ID. The text format suggested to support the single picture has not been found convenient.The format served as a check list of what to look (and note) for, though most reproduced just the blank headings. I have the same experience with the field guides; no one wants to write/read the text. (thanks to the digitals, a note book is byegone) I recollect, giving a link in a post to a foto stream or an album was discouraged some time back. It will be now a better idea to reinstate the link for its obvious convenience if one has to attach several images. Regards, Shrikant
On Oct 23, 3:33 am, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have often been writing on the need for structures other than flower upper > view for proper identification. Last few days we have seen this more often. > Yesterday I saw a photograph sent by Ritesh ji, which I just passed off as > some member of Caryophyllaceae, and was just about to write Arenaria sp. > when I thought of checking it. I downloaded the picture to my desktop, > magnified it using my phot editor and was surprised to find plant with > alternate leaves which are somewhat circuluar with cut margins. It took me > some more time to identify it as Saxifraga sibirica, and hope identification > turns correct. A simple web photo does not show any of these. > > I again request that members who especially go out on photography trips > should bring back at least three snaps: photograph of twig with > inflorescence and insertion of leaves and their shape; a top view of flower > to show petals, stamens and carpels; and a side view of flower to show bract > (if any), calyx and other features. I think with these three photographs, > identification would be a much simpler process. Any additional snaps are > always a bonus. In many plants basal leaves and upper leaves are different, > and always helpful in identification. So is fruit if available. > > -- > 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: 9810359089http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
