Nice work Dinesh sir. Best wishes for the work ahead. Keep it up. Regards Pankaj
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear friends, > > In line with focusing on particular subject of flora, the next month will > concentrate on FRUITS and VEGETABLES. > And, the Monday of the focus week starts almost bang with the start of the > New Year 2011 (assuming that most of us will enjoy the extended celebrations > of the Christmas and New Year vacation). > > Earlier episodes dealt with single family of flora; this would cover any (or > many) families of flora. > > Hopefully, we all know our FRUITS and VEGETABLES ... it is as easy as a > child non-scientifically deciding to differentiate between the two. > Though both of these would be the edible parts of a plant, we would end up > deciding the "sweet" part(s) of the plant to be FRUITS, and all other > appetitive tasting to be VEGETABLES. > > Scientifically, our usual understanding may get straightened and find that > some of the VEGETABLES are in fact "fruits" by definition, or other parts of > the plant like leaves, stem, root ... the FRUITS too, could be any other > part of the plant. > All said, if there is any trouble in differentiation, no worries ... simply > eat and enjoy !! ... because what some people know as VEGETABLE could be > FRUIT to some other. > > Enough of what could be said about FRUITS and VEGETABLES ... more of it can > be found in interesting references: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umami > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piquance > > What is the scope of posting in this episode ? > Per my understanding ... any FRUIT or VEGETABLE that is known to perish in > few days. > > > What do we refrain from ? > To avoid overlapping efforts among past and future episodes, we will refrain > from posting: > DRIED FRUITS ... almond, apricot, cashew, date, figs, peaches, plums, > raisins, walnut > SPICES ... fennel, mustard, black pepper, cinnamon, cloves, saffron, > turmeric, ginger, asafoetida, masalas, ... > CEREALS (GRAINS) ... most of them covered in grasses ... barley, corn, > maize, millets, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, wheat, sugar > PULSES ... beans, peas, lentils, ... in dried form ... (OK, in wet form) > PRESERVED or PROCESSED FOOD ... all that is consumed from cans, tins, > bottles, pickles ... OK, if some of us have keen interest in discussing > flora from preserved food. > > References used: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dried_fruit > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spices > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereals > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulses > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preserved_food > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processed_food > > Most of us would be in the midst of vacations ... wherever you are, go, go, > go steal in broad daylight, every fruit and vegetable that you can get to > see on a road-side seller, with your camera !! > > > Happy posting ... Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all. > -- *********************************************** "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) Research Associate Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project Department of Habitat Ecology Wildlife Institute of India Post Box # 18 Dehradun - 248001, India
