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*From:* Rakesh Biswas [mailto:rakesh7bis...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* 11 March 2010 04:53 PM
*To:* Robert H. Archer
*Cc:* J.M. Garg; efloraofindia; navendu page; Muthu Karthick; Nayan Singh;
satish phadke; Neil Soares
*Subject:* Re
Thanks a lot Dinesh Ji and Pravin Ji for detailing this plant.
We have been trying to propagate this plant for our garden here in
Bhopal and haven't had any success with stem cuttings till date.
We have recently prepared the dried up fruits for germination and eagerly
await the results.
From Lynn:
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Date: Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:21 AM
Subject: RE: Of stolen plums and hard beatings! Zizyphus jujuba
To: Rakesh Biswas rakesh7bis...@gmail.com
Hi Rakesh,
That is, indeed, a noble tree. And a sobering
Pardon the obscure sounding word arrangement but the link below may make
this clearer ( I hope).
http://www.strategie.net/inhalte_international/cybernetic_thinking.htm
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, 9:51 pm, Rakesh Biswas rakesh7bis...@gmail.com wrote:
Date/Time- Feb 16
Location- Place, Altitude, GPS- Bhopal: near sea level
Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type- Wild near the lakeside in front of a
urban habitat
Plant Habit- Tree/ Shrub/ Climber/ Herb- Tree shrub
Height/Length- 4
What is the average height and width ( size/spread) that Ficus arnotianna is
expected to attain?
Would be grateful to learn from the responses.
regards,
rakesh
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Momordica dioica? commonly known as Teasle Gourd Kakrol, Kankro, Kartoli,
Kantoli, Kantola or Kantroli?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/3780448183/
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com wrote:
Resurfacing again for ID
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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
about this shrub like
family, origins etc.
Thanks again for identifying it.
regards,
rakesh
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Devendra Bhardwaj
devendra_bhard...@yahoo.com wrote:
dombia elegans
REGARD
DEVENDRA
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*From:* Rakesh Biswas rakesh7bis...@gmail.com
.
Regards
Satish Pardeshi
On Jan 26, 4:48 pm, Rakesh Biswas rakesh7bis...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks a lot Devendra ji.
The literature around Dombia Elegans appears to be so sparse in the web
that
google reveals your emailed post as the first and only written reference
to
it other than
Sorry to hear that Gurcharan ji,
May his soul rest in peace.
regards,
rakesh
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Gurcharan Singh singh...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear members
I could not intereact in the group for last one week due to sad demise of
my elder brother in tragic road accident on 3rd
Thanks Everyone for the id.
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Dinesh Valke dinesh.va...@gmail.com wrote:
oh !! ... was almost convinced it was *Polyalthia longifolia* ... now
recollecting that the leaves end in sharp point, and fruits hang in
clusters.
*Putranjiva roxburghii* (syn.
Although my contribution and involvement has been negligible I just wanted
to say that I have enjoyed being a part of this fantastic body of
enthusiastic nature lovers and benefited immensely from it.
Other than those already mentioned I would also like to say that I have been
amazed and
*These days G-mail, yahoo mail etc. provide enough memory for one to delete
any mail for over the years or so.*
Thanks Garg ji,
I can't say the same about my own gmail inbox which is overloaded even after
expanding to 7Gb and I have to delete many messages everyday.
regards,
rakesh
On
Thanks Aparna ji for the inspiring details on Swapna ji.
Would it be possible to have a field trip/course also in MP where we
could have the benefit of her and your guidance (along with other
esteem ed members from MP)?
regards
rakesh
On 11/23/09, Aparna Watve aparnawat...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Janaki, Max and James for this interesting thread.
To add to this I quote from a chapter in the novel linked below:
From Richard:
Yes, almost certainly Macrolepiota procera. However, if its flesh went
bright orange on breaking, it was Lepiota rhacodes.
Richard
--- On Mon, 9/11/09, Rakesh Biswas rakesh7bis...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Rakesh Biswas rakesh7bis...@gmail.com
Subject: Macrolepiota procera
.
Bulter. Meanwhile I'm guessing it's related to our common honey fungus,
Armillaria mellea.
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*From:* Rakesh Biswas rakesh7bis...@gmail.com
*To:* Richard Lehman edgar.leh...@btinternet.com
*Sent:* Thursday, November 05, 2009 5:04 PM
*Subject:* Tree Mushrooms
Synonymous with Ficus Exasperata.
Here's an earlier post by Dinesh Ji:
http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix/web/ficus-exasperata
regards
rakesh
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Dr Santhosh Kumar drsanthosh1...@gmail.com
wrote:
This seems to be Ficus asperrima
Santhosh
Thought I would share this quote which I never tired of reading everyday as
it was put up just on top of the table where we signed our daily attendance:
*...a teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A
lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own
Quoting Rashida:
**
*serious reference work one should do in a library. I feel no amount of
links and material available on the internet can really at this stage,
substitute the research work one needs to carry out from acknowledged
authors, volumes of flora of a state or region, wealth of India
Thanks Singh ji and others for continuing this discussion.
Great to read all this.
Yes I too have experienced the talent and selfless generosity of Kenneth on
a number of occassions and I am grateful to indiantreepix for hosting this
meeting ground of such good people.
rakesh
fromsinghg .
A response from a friend in UK who also writes on UK fungi.
From: Richard Lehman edgar.leh...@btinternet.com
Thanks Rakesh. I haven't a clue about Indian fungi of course and these are
bracket fungi of some kind though there may be three different fungi here
which I can't see very well. Although
No I couldn't get it. I tried saving a word file with pictures under a
different name but it didn't seem to make a change in its size. Perhaps I
didn't do it rightly?
rakesh
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 9:41 AM, JANAKI TURAGA janakitur...@gmail.comwrote:
try the solutions that i have suggested:
Thanks a lot Ketaki and Manasi for your wonderful work.
rakesh
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:06 PM, J.M. Garg jmga...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, Mansi ji Ketki ji.
Your desktop calenders with wonderful brief write ups have always been
wonderfully done.
I never forget to go through them.
Your work
The fruit is poisonous and I remember studying it in forensic medicine.
However I would like to know from others if there are other uses of the
fruit.
rakesh
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 2:57 PM, J.M. Garg jmga...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, Ajinkya ji Satish ji.
Although it has been posted many
Thanks Devipriya,
This explains the mystery of my multicolored Hibisci to a large extent.
While searching more on somatic mutations in Hibisci I came across this
interesting article:
http://www.internationalhibiscussociety.org/HI17_file/hiv1n171-2.htm
It talks a lot more on the color mutations
Thanks Yazdy and Max.
I have seen this phenomenon occuring with other plants having white hibisci
although perhaps in them they appear consistently but in mine they appear
randomly
once in 6 months or one year.
This random appearance after a prolonged absence makes it all the more
curious. So to
Greetings Pankaj Ji,
rakesh
On 8/27/09, Dinesh Valke dinesh.va...@gmail.com wrote:
... salutes and greetings, Pankaj ji !!
Regards.
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:59 PM, kiran srivastava srivastava...@gmail.com
wrote:
...and thus the site grows bigger and better!
Cheers,
Kiran
Beautiful! Garg ji,
rakesh
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 8:33 PM, J.M. Garg jmga...@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/7/09 around Pocharam Lake, Medak district, A.P.
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With regards,
J.M.Garg (jmga...@gmail.com)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1
'Creating awareness of Indian Flora Fauna'
Image
Are the pakodas made from the leaves or the flowers?
rakesh
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Pankaj Oudhia pankajoud...@gmail.comwrote:
I feel that group numbers should not miss the chance to eat tasty
pakodas prepared from Commelina. It is consumed in Chhattisgarh and
much liked by
I wish we could have more of these excursions here in and around Bhopal and
MP.
rakesh
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:23 AM, J.M. Garg jmga...@gmail.com wrote:
Reply from Rajesh ji for assistance pl.
Thanks mr. garg, I need someone to guide me to go there, as this is my
first visit to Kas.
Adesh
I wonder why it is called Candida. Reminds me of a fungal infection with the
same name.
regards,
rakesh
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:48 AM, J.M. Garg jmga...@gmail.com wrote:
On 13/6/09 in Hyderabad, AP.
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With regards,
J.M.Garg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1
'Creating awareness
Thanks Garg Ji,
We are all proud of Dinesh Valke.
regards,
rakesh
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:17 PM, J.M. Garg jmga...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, friends,
*When will ALL the flora and fauna of India get on internet?* i.e. what
I think summarises 'Dinesh Valke'. I was astonished to find his
Had a query about fruiting of diospyros melanoxylon. Will there be fruiting
if there is a single tree in the locality?
How does one ensure fruiting in diospyros melanoxylon if considering
planting it in one's own garden?
rakesh
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Neil Soares
Hi Sanjeev,
Do you want to know where to buy saplings of Ficus Glomerata or where full
grown trees of ficus glomerata are located in various parts of the city of
Hyderabad?
rakesh
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 1:20 PM, J.M. Garg jmga...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, Sanjeev ji,
Your mail is not clear. And
Another similar recent example I came across in a Van Vihar organized nature
study camp is the porcupine eating away at Tendu bark creating girdles.
I agree with Yazdy that the damage is miniscule compared to what 'the most
dangerous animal on this planet' has done.
rakesh
On Sat, May 23, 2009
Looks like some ficus species?
rakesh
http://peoplesgroup.academia.edu/RakeshBiswas
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Sushmita Jha sushmitas...@gmail.comwrote:
Great, Doctorsaab! Seeing this would mean nirvana for me.
Am copying this to Indiatreepix to ask which tree the hornbill is sitting
I had a query:
What does Krishnachura in Bengali represent?
Caeselpinia Pulcherima or Delonix Regia (gulmohar)?
If Radhachura represents peltophorum ferrugineum erroneously then what is
its correct representation?
rakesh
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:01 PM, sibdas ghosh sibdasgh...@gmail.com
Beautiful picture.
regards
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Dinesh Valke dinesh.va...@gmail.comwrote:
Many thanks for showing this plant, Garg ji.
Regards.
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:57 PM, J.M. Garg jmga...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/4/09 in Vanasthalipuram National Park in Hyderabad.
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I feel Indiantreepix database is moving in the correct direction and it may
not be long before the database can expand to include all of Indian Flora.
rakesh
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 7:46 PM, J.M. Garg jmga...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, Kunhikannan ji.
But what we are talking is it put it on the
Cradle to cradle: remaking the way we make things
By William McDonough, Michael Braungart
Edition: illustrated
Published by North Point Press, 2002
ISBN 0865475873, 9780865475878
193 pages
warm regards,
rakesh
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:17 PM, rashida atthar
rashidaatt...@hotmail.comwrote:
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From: Yazdy Palia yazdypa...@gmail.com
To: Rakesh Biswas rakesh7bis...@gmail.com
Cc: indiantreepix indiantreepix@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 12:00 AM
Subject: [indiantreepix:11157] Re: A book on a new industrial model based
on
trees
Well said Mr
of
them seem to mean the same: creeper / climber.
Regards.
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Rakesh Biswas
rakesh7bis...@gmail.comwrote:
Bengali: gaichha lata ... what is gaichha ?
Gaichha or Gecho means tree climber.
regards,
rakesh
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Dinesh
.
Refer: http://www.behindthename.com/name/valli
Common name always denotes the habit or habitat of the plants!!!
Regards,
Stephen...
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Rakesh Biswas
rakesh7bis...@gmail.comwrote:
Gaichha lata would mean tree (Gaichha) climber (lata) to a Bengali.
However
Bengali: gaichha lata ... what is gaichha ?
Gaichha or Gecho means tree climber.
regards,
rakesh
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Dinesh Valke dinesh.va...@gmail.comwrote:
...just as Neil ji says: *Calycopteris floribunda.*
*commonly known as*: the paper-flower climber • Konkani: उस्की
Interesting because the Baobab is an African tree and may not have been
imported more than 500 years back?
However the name Kalpavriksh definitely sounds older than that?
Would like to learn more from you. Also Adittya could confirm if his
sighting matches the pictures of Baobab which he would
I agree with Dinesh.
Learnt a lot from this interesting exchange of information on *Salvadora
persica.*
warm regards,
rakesh
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Dinesh Valke dinesh.va...@gmail.comwrote:
Many thanks to all: Garg ji for triggering this thread, Dhaivat ji for his
*small*
Isn't rain tree also known as the Saman tree? Is the Shirish the same as the
Saman?
rakesh
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:50 PM, satish phadke phadke.sat...@gmail.comwrote:
Both are flowering at present.Native and non native Shirish
Dr Phadke
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Id?
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:07 PM, raghu ananth raghu_...@yahoo.com wrote:
Colourful blossoms of a tree - a mix of Orange, Red, Rose
Theosophical society
Chennai
Sep 2008
Regards
Raghu
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Very well written piece.
rakesh
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:56 AM, J.M. Garg jmga...@gmail.com wrote:
Forwarding pl.
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From: rattus_rattus2003 rattus_rattus2...@yahoo.co.in
Date: 2009/3/3
Subject: [delhibird] please do read and comment
To:
Wish we could have such trips where I stay in Bhopal.
rakesh
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:48 AM, J.M. Garg jmga...@gmail.com wrote:
Forwarding pl.
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From: ashok ashok_s...@yahoo.com
Date: 2009/3/2
Subject: [bnhsfieldbotany] Matheran outing Details
To:
Doesn't match google image pics of Tabernaemontana divaricata, Pinwheel
Jasmine, but I may be wrong.
rakesh
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Barry Stock barryst...@gmail.com wrote:
I believe it is Tabernaemontana divaricata, Pinwheel Jasmine, in the
Apocynaceae.
-bs
On Feb 28, 2009, at
Malaysia and Singapore have been essentially one country at different times
of their political history. Johor is the southern most district of Malaysia
separated from Singapore by a bridge across a small river. The national
language of Singapore is the same as that of Malaysia.
rakesh
PS:For the
Yellow Trumpetbush?
Also *Tecoma* stans?
rakesh
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Suresh C. Sharma bushc...@gmail.comwrote:
Dear Chandan ji,
It is, my memory fails me on many occasions though, - Tecoma australiasis,
or call it Australian Tecoma.
Regards,
Suresh C Sharma
On 2/18/09,
Thanks for all this interesting information in Agave.
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Barry Stock barryst...@gmail.com wrote:
One particular species of Agave, Agave tequilana, is the source of a
very popular liquor, Tequila. It is made from the steamed and
distilled heart of the huge plants.
Thanks Mr Satyendra
I too have this one. However I am still unable to get an answer to my
previous query on how a white hibiscus becomes pink on occasional days of
the year.
Hibiscus mutabilis may be a good case study to follow up on this query.
rakesh
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:27 AM,
Thanks Satyendra Ji,
I had heard so much about adhatoda vasica as a consitituent of bromhexine in
my student life and thanks to you I had a chance to see how it looks like
today.
Would be really great if I could join you or any of the other members on
this list for botanic excursions to learn
Well if it is that then it would be difficult to explain why it is localized
to only a small area of the bark.
rakesh
On 1/25/09, Madhuri Pejaver formpeja...@yahoo.com wrote:
this might be the gum oozing out the trunk.
pejaver
--- On Thu, 1/22/09, Rakesh Biswas rakesh7bis...@gmail.com
) is typically coppery
colored. Mature leaves in second picture look to be of typical thickness.
Regards--
Ken Greby
Broward County, Florida USA
--- On Sun, 1/25/09, Rakesh Biswas rakesh7bis...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Rakesh Biswas rakesh7bis...@gmail.com
Subject: [indiantreepix:7943
: Cause of these leaf changes in a queen's
crepe myrtle (pride of India)
To: Rakesh Biswas rakesh7bis...@gmail.com
Cc: fstf...@yahoo.com, indiantreepix@googlegroups.com
Date: Monday, January 26, 2009, 12:20 AM
I notice a couple of leaves having a sort of
crumpled appearance. It
could
portion of the leaves
and the larvae build some kind of cocoon around themselves. If that is
the case, removing the cocoon should help.
regards
Yazdy Palia.
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Rakesh Biswas rakesh7bis...@gmail.com
wrote:
Thanks Yazdy,
It is not he color I am worried about
by scraping with the finger.
I'd suspect that some sort of boring insect is infesting the stems, or
possibly some sort of canker disease.
Do you know what kind of tree it is?
Regards--
Ken.
--- On *Fri, 1/23/09, Rakesh Biswas rakesh7bis...@gmail.com* wrote:
From: Rakesh Biswas rakesh7bis
keep an eye for increases in the accumulation
or declines to the tree, if possible.
Regards--
Ken.
--- On *Sat, 1/24/09, Rakesh Biswas rakesh7bis...@gmail.com* wrote:
From: Rakesh Biswas rakesh7bis...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [indiantreepix:7878] bark accumulation
To: fstf...@yahoo.com
Cc
Scarlet Spiderling Flowers (Boerhaavia coccineae)?
http://flickr.com/photos/mom-mu/236164239/
-rakesh
On 1/24/09, Swapna Prabhu swapnapra...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Looks like Boerhaavia sp.
-swapna
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 9:51 AM, JANAKI TURAGA janakitur...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi all,
easily
by scraping with the finger.
I'd suspect that some sort of boring insect is infesting the stems, or
possibly some sort of canker disease.
Do you know what kind of tree it is?
Regards--
Ken.
--- On Fri, 1/23/09, Rakesh Biswas rakesh7bis...@gmail.com wrote:
From
-boring insect as well,
though ants seldom collect the gum exudate of most plants.
Regards--
Ken Greby
Palmetto Bay, Florida USA
--- On *Thu, 1/22/09, Rakesh Biswas rakesh7bis...@gmail.com* wrote:
From: Rakesh Biswas rakesh7bis...@gmail.com
Subject: [indiantreepix:7878] bark accumulation
. If that plant has scale,
it is not one with which I am familiar.
Were the ants primarily visiting these lumps. or were they perhaps
foraging on something else in the plant?
Did you try scraping any of the lumps to see if they would detach?
Regards--
Ken.
--- On *Fri, 1/23/09, Rakesh Biswas
I checked Crawfurdia and it appears more common in parts of China etc.
It is possible that the flora of Arunachal has a lot in common with the the
flora of China?
rakesh biswas
Bhopal
http://peoplesgroup.academia.edu/RakeshBiswas
On 1/22/09, Padmanabhan Geetha iye...@gmail.com wrote:
Very
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