Nice pics and good id, SURAJIT and AJINKYA. used in xeriscaping in texas and arizona among other states.
In its native country Belize ethnic uses includes treating the HAAJA ( fungal skin infection of the mosit skin between the foot toes...) (HAAJA is a bengali word meaning the skin fungal infection of foot and toes) USha di ======= On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:03 PM, surajit koley < surajitnotavaila...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you Ajinkya Ji for the ID of this species. > > Regards, > > Surajit Koley > > > On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:00 PM, ajinkya gadave > <ajinkyagad...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> *this is dwarf Hamelia patens** .* >> >> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:58 PM, surajit koley < >> surajitnotavaila...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Thank you Garg Sir for taking care of this post. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Surajit Koley >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:57 PM, jmgarg1 <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >>>> >>>> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> From: surajit koley <surajitnotavaila...@gmail.com> >>>> Date: 28 May 2012 21:12 >>>> Subject: [efloraofindia:117953] Hamelia sp. from Alipore >>>> To: efloraofindia <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> >>>> >>>> >>>> Sir / Madam, >>>> >>>> This *Hamelia* species is from Alipore Agri-Hort. While searching for >>>> particular species ID i get a number of species from >>>> http://www.theplantlist.org/browse/A/Rubiaceae/Hamelia/ . >>>> Now, which one to choose from... more searches tells me that it could >>>> be *Hamelia patens* var. *glabra* as in - >>>> http://hortsci.ashspublications.org/content/39/6/1224.full.pdf or in >>>> http://www.floridanativenurseries.org/info/plants/the-hamelia-mess/ . >>>> >>>> Species : *Hamelia patens* var. *glabra* ? >>>> Habit & Habitat : garden shrub >>>> Date : 25-05-12, 12.30 p.m. >>>> Place : Agri-Horticultural Society of India, Alipor (Kolkata) >>>> ID help : >>>> http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=220006024 >>>> >>>> Thank you & Regards, >>>> >>>> Surajit Koley >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> With regards, >>>> J.M.Garg >>>> 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 1870 members >>>> & 1,18,000 messages on 31/5/12) or Efloraofindia website: >>>> https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database >>>> of more than 6500 species). >>>> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >>>> India'. >>>> >>>> >>> >> > -- Usha di ===========