Re: [efloraofindia:109964] Nomenclature; botanical names versus common names

2012-03-06 Thread Plant Diversity
You might also try the Catalogue of Life web site for names and synonyms. It does not have a complete coverage of names, but the ones it has are usually current, give synonymy and often links to further information. http://www.sp2000.org/ Alastair http://www.facebook.com/PlantDiversity

Re: [efloraofindia:109964] Re: Herbarium Sheets

2012-03-06 Thread H S
Balkar ji, it will be more cheaper if you fallow the suggestion of Singh sir, just purchase a big sheets of Card paper, you can select the quality of paper of your choice, than just get it cut of size 16 1/2 by 11 1/2 inches. i guess it wont go beyond 5 Rs. per sheet regrads, On Mon, Mar 5, 2012

Re: [efloraofindia:109965] Radermachera xylocarpa [Kharsing]

2012-03-06 Thread H S
Awesome pics!! Rare plant regards, On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Prasad Dash prasad.dash2...@gmail.comwrote: Lovely Shot Neil Sir. Thanks for sharing. This is typical character of the bark of Radenmanchera Regards prasad On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Balkar Singh

Re: [efloraofindia:109966] Plant for ID ::Oct 2011 SMP1

2012-03-06 Thread H S
yes Osyris lanceolata, a beautiful shrub, very common in the place sited above. regards, On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Satish Phadke drsmpha...@gmail.com wrote: Many many thanks Shrikant ji, Dinesh ji and Rajdeoji. These pictures were pending with me for long time. On searching earlier

Re: [efloraofindia:109967] Searching for local name for

2012-03-06 Thread H S
The plant is exotic so it becomes very hard to have a traditional local name, when the plants are imported many time we start using the Latin name as common name and some time we end up giving some fancy name according to its character.. well Gliricidia in Maharashtra known by name 'Undir-Maar'

Re: [efloraofindia:109968] Nomenclature; botanical names versus common names

2012-03-06 Thread Pankaj Oudhia
Welcome Michel from Pankaj (surname suppressed). For the said approach, the expenses were much as at that time in my city Raipur not much computer professionals were there. Taking print outs and sending it to you to Austraila through registered surface mail was much expensive for me. Now due to

Re: [efloraofindia:109969] Re: Herbarium Sheets

2012-03-06 Thread Balkar Singh
Thanks HS Ji I am searching local market for large size shhets. I found many but there color was very dull slightly greyish like. So trying more options to get some fine color sheets. On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:12 PM, H S hemsan...@gmail.com wrote: Balkar ji, it will be more cheaper if you fallow

Re: [efloraofindia:109970] Re: Herbarium Sheets

2012-03-06 Thread Gurcharan Singh
Balkar ji the standard size of card sheets is 22 inch by 28 inch, from which you can get three sheets if you are prepared to reduce width from standard 11.5 inchees to 11 inches, or else you can get two 11.5 x 16.6 inches and one 11.5 x 16.5 inch from each card. Alternately you can get two

Re: [efloraofindia:109973] Re: Herbarium Sheets

2012-03-06 Thread Balkar Singh
Yes Sir I think procuring large size card sheets are best option. Pls let me know will there be any problem if color is dull dark or even slightly grey, if to be submitted in any standard national or international herbaria Thanks On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com

Re: [efloraofindia:109974] Re: Herbarium Sheets

2012-03-06 Thread Gurcharan Singh
Why the white card sheets are easily available anywhere. Only you should check the thickness of cards before buying. -- 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

Re: [efloraofindia:109975] Thlaspi sp from Paddar valley JK

2012-03-06 Thread Gurcharan Singh
Fruits look too small for Thlaspi (see link below), also leaves are much narrower. It looks to be Lepidium sativum to me. http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=88185flora_id=800 On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Suresh Kumar Rana envsures...@gmail.comwrote: Request for ID

Re: [efloraofindia:109976] Re: Herbarium Sheets

2012-03-06 Thread Balkar Singh
Sir white sheets available are very smooth may be difficult to handle. Any specific no. size thickness etc you can suggest Sir On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com wrote: Why the white card sheets are easily available anywhere. Only you should check the thickness

Re: [efloraofindia:109977] Re: Herbarium Sheets

2012-03-06 Thread Pankaj Kumar
Dear Balkar sir if you are looking for white one then ask for IVORY SHEET. You wont find anything brighter than that/ You can take one big one and as Gurcharan sir suggested you can make three sheets out of it. Pankaj On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Balkar Singh balkara...@gmail.com wrote: Sir

Re: [efloraofindia:109978] Re: Herbarium Sheets

2012-03-06 Thread Balkar Singh
Thanks Pankaj Ji. Colour of sheet matters for using them as herbariumfor standard herbarium...??? On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Pankaj Kumar sahanipan...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Balkar sir if you are looking for white one then ask for IVORY SHEET. You wont find anything

Re: [efloraofindia:109981] Re: Herbarium Sheets

2012-03-06 Thread Balkar Singh
Thanks for the Detailed information Pankaj Ji. the size of the sheet being used as Herbarium sheet in most of the colleges in Haryana is wrong. even we were also using 11x13.5 size sheets. simply due to the reason that from a standard large size sheet we may get 4 sheets. From This year onwards

Re: [efloraofindia:109982] MERREMIA VITIFOLIA

2012-03-06 Thread Balkar Singh
Lovely Shot Col Bimal ji. this belongs to Convolvulaceae and hope you will post more convolvulaceae members in coming convolvulaceae week. thanks On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Col Bimal Sarkar colbimalsar...@yahoo.comwrote: Dear Friend, Attaching an image of *Merremia

Re: [efloraofindia:109983] Re: Herbarium Sheets

2012-03-06 Thread Pankaj Kumar
Formal size is A3 and is acceptable to all herbaria across the world. But I would not request you to encourage students to make herbarium vouchers unless someone is doing PhD. The better way would be to teach them how to study voucher specimens. At the same time, also teach them how to make field

Re: [efloraofindia:109984] Re: Herbarium Sheets

2012-03-06 Thread Balkar Singh
Interesting Story Pankaj ji. situation here is not good. exposure to field work is very less particularly in Punjab and Haryana Colleges and even in universities. As per syllabi i asked every student to submit only 15-20 sheets of common wild plants only just to teach them how to press, label and

Re: [efloraofindia:109985] Re: Herbarium Sheets

2012-03-06 Thread Vijayasankar
Very good observation indeed, Pankaj. Coming back to the color other specifications of herbarium sheet. While at FRLHT, I had chance to digitize few thousand herbarium specimens from various sources. The ivory or white sheets gave better results with even and clear background (this is important

Re: [efloraofindia:109986] Re: Herbarium Sheets

2012-03-06 Thread Balkar Singh
Thanks Vijayasankar Ji. Good information, I tried with two types of Handmade Papers, both were rough and dull white to little grey. so rejected them. After this good discussion, My search tomorrow will be only for good white Ivory sheets rather than handmade paper. thanks On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at

Re: [efloraofindia:109987] Re: Herbarium Sheets

2012-03-06 Thread Vijayasankar
Balkar ji, From your response ...rather than handmade paper I think I have somewhere conveyed a wrong impression. I didn't mean to avoid handmade sheets, in fact I prefer and suggest handmade sheets, only thing is that we need to select the suitable quality for this purpose. It may be costlier

Re: [efloraofindia:109988] Re: Herbarium Sheets

2012-03-06 Thread Balkar Singh
Yes Vijayasankar ji Hand made paper sheets may be of good quality but in our area good quality sheets were not there, so i thought for ivory sheets. Puna hand made paper Institute supply only bulk orders as per their quotations. I think their quality is good. On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:19 PM,

Re: [efloraofindia:109990] Pink Haut - Flower from Mudigere 03Mar2012AR01

2012-03-06 Thread Sid
Raghuji, Its a species of Rhododendron, most probably the type species *Rhododendron ferrugineum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhododendron_ferrugineum* of Ericaceae Sid. On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 11:14 AM, raghu ananth raghu_...@yahoo.com wrote: Pink Haut - Flower from Mudigere 03Mar2012AR01

Re: [efloraofindia:109991] eFl man for the month of February, 2012 among members (excluding moderators): Mr. Surajit Koley

2012-03-06 Thread Mayur Nandikar
Congratulations Surajit ji. On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:36 PM, surajit koley surajitnotavaila...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Sir for this wonderful message. Your word are my inspiration and motivation. I will strive to better myself in coming days. Regards, Surajit Koley

Re: [efloraofindia:109992] RV 2 Id 29022012

2012-03-06 Thread Mayur Nandikar
Morning Renee ji, This could be some species of *Atlantia *from family Rutaceae. Nice caption. Thank you. On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 6:53 PM, renee vyas Vyas reneevy...@gmail.comwrote: Dear Friends, Please identify this small shrub which I saw in Sunder Nursery, Delhi on 25th Feb,2012. with

Re: [efloraofindia:109993]

2012-03-06 Thread Mayur Nandikar
This could be ...*Tabebuia pentaphylla* On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Dalia Set setda...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Friends Attaching the pics of a pinkish flower and the tree for identification. The tree flowers profously from mid Feb- when it is mostly leafless. Tree Height :

[efloraofindia:109994] Postings allowed giving links, more pictures in reply etc. for time being

2012-03-06 Thread jmgarg1
A thought from Dinesh ji in another thread: Dear all, For a while until Google Groups stabilizes, can we think of uploading images to locations like Google+ / flickr / Picasa / webshots / etc. and carry on posting / responding with links to these images ? My thought: it is better than losing time.

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2012-03-06 Thread PRATIM MAJUMDAR
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Re: [efloraofindia:109996]

2012-03-06 Thread Dalia Set
Can it be *Tabebuia rosea-alba ? .* The flowers are pinkish white . Leaves are palmately divided into 5 unequal leaflets, pointed tips. Do I need to check any other feature of the tree? Thanks Dalia On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Mayur Nandikar mayurnandi...@gmail.comwrote: This could be

[efloraofindia:109998] Re: Lodha tribe customs: The bride will be married to the mahua tree

2012-03-06 Thread manya
Very useful info. We should start this in our cities also and the bride and bridgroom should plant one Mango and Mahua tree respectively. Regards, Mani

[efloraofindia:109998] mail not going

2012-03-06 Thread mani nair
Dear friends, My mails are bouncing back to me. How to know the size of the mail I am sending ? Regards, Mani Nair

Re: [efloraofindia:110000] mail not going

2012-03-06 Thread Gurcharan Singh
Less than 100 kb mail size including attachment Mani ji -- 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://www.gurcharanfamily.com/

[efloraofindia:110001] ID

2012-03-06 Thread Gopinath Mali
Dear all, How do i identify Calotropis procera Calotropis gigantea. Gopinath

Re: [efloraofindia:110002] ID

2012-03-06 Thread Gurcharan Singh
Gopinath ji Please see this mail of mine https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/indiantreepix/Calotropis$20procera$20and$20calotropis$20gigantea$20$20Gurcharan$20Singh/indiantreepix/FzV9a3WeBhQ/v9_rUiY7V50J -- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College,