Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise pl. Earlier relevant feedback:
“This doesnt look like Drosera, but most probably Utricularia!! Pankaj” “I also think some Species of Urticularia sp tanay” “I have to make some corrections in my photoes. Yes the red one is D. burmani and green one is D.indica. Just a typing mistake. *The last one added by me is not the drosera but Utricularia sp. at Lavasa. Sorry for the mistakes.* Actually I am not a Botonist, So please forgive. Nice pictures with flowering of D. indica. by Prashantaji. Thank you for this sharing with us. Don't know about the medicinal values of this plant. Plumbago zeylanica is one of the plants I think preveously must be the drosera. Because it is having the bulb with sticky filaments over it. Dr. Kadus Arvind.Pune.” "*Dear Dr. Kadus, Can you elaborate on the habitat where you found the Utricularia species? If you found it growing on vertical rock faces, boulders or tree trunks and if all the leaves are rounded as in the photograph, it is could be Utricularia striatula, the common lithophytic/epiphytic Utricularia in the Western Ghats. *Plumbago zeylanica, and many species of Smithia have sticky glandular hair, where insects get stuck many times. They die there, but the plant has NO mechanism to digest and use their nutrients. Hence the plants are not carnivorous in any sense. However, some scientists, call this condition, "protocarnivory", that means a step before carnivory is achieved. So according to them, such plants might in evolutionary times (say a few million years in future) also develop a mechanism to digest plants and learn to digest the insects, and hence evolve to be truly carnivorous. You can search the wikipedia, which gives more details of this phenomenon. Regards, Aparna" ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: arvind kadus <agastiayur...@yahoo.co.in> Date: 8 August 2010 11:59 Subject: [efloraofindia:43741] Droseras from KAAS.. To: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com Cc: mani nair <mani.na...@gmail.com> Dear Sir, Yes they are *Carnivorus plants*, very little one. one of thos is *Drosera indica* really at the size of the nail of our thumb.We had catched the pictures of the plant with the insects. This plant is having the filaments with the lobes containig the sticky material. When the insect get attracted towards the plant( by its colour or other features), it get stucked on the filaments.Then slowly these filaments get themselve rolled over this insect and by these bulbs starting sucking the proteins from the insect. This process is of around 60 mnts. There is onother variety of drosera we have seen in Lavasa city last year. Attaching the picture of it. Please see. Thanx. *Dr.Kadus arvind,Pune.* -- With regards, J.M.Garg (jmga...@gmail.com) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' Image Resource of more than a thousand species of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg For learning about Indian Flora, visit/ join Google e-group- Efloraofindia: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1360 members & 47,000 messages on 10/9/10)
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