Dear Gurcharan ji, The active participation of all members of both the groups and also resolving the mysteries behind scientific names are the best parts. Knowledge about traditional medicines and Ayurveda enlightens us to the extreme level. It has been really a splendid experience to see the involvement many new collegues who has decades of experience in plant science behind them. One of my major insctict was involvement of other plant groups i.e bryophytes, gymnosprems E.tc and fungi in the group through healthy, informative discussions and now members like Raghu Ji, Vijayasankar Ji are posting several fungi photos and information.I wish best of luck to the group in coming years and also to Garg Ji for creating such intellectual platform for us. Regards Tanay
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear members > The last few days on the group have been really exciting with active > participation of new experts Tanay, Satish Chile ji and Balkar ji, renewed > increased activity of less active members and joining in of members > practicing traditional healing through plants, and some of us joining the > bodhi-nighantu group. Last few months had seen several instances of conflict > between scientific names and local names, but the past month has shown a > decent correspondance/collaboration between local names and scientific > names. Correct scientific identity of several plants has been easily solved > because a traditional healer provided a unique local name of the plant. In > the same way where same local name was found to be applied to more than one > different plants, and the identity of the plant was doubtful the experts > were able to sort out the correct identity through comparison of scientific > information and description. Perhaps there is no better example > of correspondence between modern version folk taxonomy and modern taxonomy. > I am enjoying this interaction, and I know Dinesh ji, Hari ji and other > members familiar with local names are also enjoying it. It is no wonder the > activity in both the groups is picking up so well. Garg ji, I know you must > be feeling very satisfied, and so are some of us assigned the job of > resurface. There is increasingly so little to resurface. > > -- > 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ <http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/> > > -- Tanay Bose +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) 9830439691(Mobile) 9674221362 (Mobile) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To post to this group, send email to indiantree...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.
