Welcome back, Usha di! Well, this is going to be a tough quiz, at least to me, without any clue. It looks more like a valve of dehisced capsule, something like in this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shubhada_nikharge/5309163036/in/set-72157625586833475/ I am not sure, so I quit from the quiz... However, I got the 'price' 'in it'!! Thanks and...Happy Valentine's day!
Regards Vijayasankar Raman National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:30 AM, ushadi Micromini <[email protected] > wrote: > Dear All: > Gosh, came to email account today... after several weeks of busy busy > days... house guests that wont go... > the Queens cup races and the Horticulture flower show... several very > interesting lecture series and more interesting people who traveled to > Kolkata to give those lectures and the winter music fest .... all > happening at the same time and my exams.... phew ..w...w. ... Several > hundred emails just from eflora and indiatreepix....... just got to skim a > few.... a few in the first week of busy-ness... and a few from the middle > and a few from this last 3 days... > > Seems I missed a few insults, tantrums, some plagiarism cases, an > entire very nicely illustrated week of RUBIACEAE... for which I was saving > pictures and forgot all about it... and a new lingo: using CRICKET > terminology for the photography... sixers, boundary etc... very > interesting..... about time we had new words... was getting bored with > "mesmerizing" comments... > > > AND NOW FOR THE VALENTINE DAY SPECIAL that the title above promises.... > > It was after dark, and begin to drizzle a bit, while walking past a > darkened house... something fluttered to my feet... > habits die hard... even in the faint cool drizzle.. had to stop and > photograph it.... did not seem too promising, but looking at it at home, > it seemed just the thing ..... > > Its a gift from MA Nature to me, and I figured I must share it with you > all.... > > CAN YOU GUESS WHAT IS IT ( I have since then gone back and checked the > tree... I now know its identity) and what tree gave it to us? > > > THERE IS A PRIZE IN IT FOR YOU for guessing its ID CORRECTLY... > GOOD LUCK .... > > > -- > Usha di > =========== > >
