incomparable close up Gurcharan ji On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:14 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wonderful snaps, Singh ji. > > > On 1 January 2012 22:29, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Two years back I had uploaded an insignificant flower of Bauhinia >> roxburghiana that looked great after close up was seen under magnification. >> This year while waiting for Cable car tickets at Gulmarg I strolled into >> the forest to find an interesting looking, though not very attractive >> plant, that I knew was Aconitum. Only after I sat to process my photographs >> and I identified it that I was impressed by great architecture of its dull >> looking flowers, and subsequently identified it as Aconitum heterophyllum >> Wall. ex Royle, the Atis Root plant and a very important medicinal plant. >> Roots yield a number of alkaloids such as atisine, heteratisine, >> histisine, heterophyllisine, heterophylline, heterophyllidine, atidine, >> hetidine, benzotheteratisine, F-dihydroatisine, and hetisinone. Plant is >> considered as valuable febrifuge and bitter tonic. Roots are also used for >> hysteria, throat infections, dyspepsia and vomiting, abdominal pain and >> diabetes. >> It purifies blood and also acts as anti-inflammatory agent. It decreases >> fever and also cures malarial fever. >> >> I am uploading two photographs of this useful plant. >> >> -- >> 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/ >> >> > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg ([email protected]) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use > them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1760 members & > 1,00,000 messages on 21/12/11) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database > of more than 6000 species). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > -- Regards Dr.Bhagyashri Ranade
