---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter Boyce <[email protected]> Date: 4 January 2013 05:35 Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:106232] 030212 BRS 304 - Xanthosoma To: Pudji Widodo <[email protected]> Cc: Matthews <[email protected]>, jmgarg1 <[email protected]>, efloraofindia <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], Rathinasabapathy Bhuvaragasamy <[email protected]>, Vijayasankar Raman < [email protected]>
Dear Pudji, There is some evidence that Xanthosoma reached at least Malaysia in the 17th C, almost certainly as stored tubers on Portuguese boats. Peter On 3 January 2013 23:39, Pudji Widodo <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Matthews, > > Most plants that I saw didn't have any inflorescence, and I have never > seen the fruits. Many plants can be seen along the small rivers and > mountain slope. Everyday, some people carrying the leaves from the foot of > Mt Slamet, may be for fish. I have no information about when it reached > Java Indonesia > > Pudji Widodo > Fakultas Biologi Universitas Jenderal Soedirman > PURWOKERTO 53122 *INDONESIA* > -- 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 2030 members & 1,42,000 messages on 31/12/12) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 7500 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. --
