efloraindia:”Fabaceae-Caesalpinioideae (Caesalpiniaceae) Week: Sharing the images of Cassia hybrida from Coimbatore. Location: NBNP Garden Habitat: Garden Habit: Tree This plant has to be looked carefully There is no published name as Cassia hybrida, the only we have is Cassia hybrida Tenore now considered as synonym of Senna floribunda (Cav.) Irwin & Barneby. This plant […]
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Calliandra species- Singapore Botanical Gardens
mimosae week: calliandra: Calliandra species from singapore botanical gardens
HC forms 5 teams to monitor weeding out of invasive tree species
HC forms 5 teams to monitor weeding out of invasive tree species : 1 post by 1 author. HC forms 5 teams to monitor weeding out of invasive tree species
Plant photography – a different approach Part 2 – Sunny and hot conditions
Fwd: Plant photography – a different approach Part 2 – Sunny and hot conditions : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (1) In Part 1 I concentrated about suitable clothing for wet and cold conditions incl. a combination of both. Of course conditions can be bright and sunny. If one does not have the necessary […]
One cannot always identify a plant beyond genus from photos alone
Fwd: One cannot always identify a plant beyond genus from photos alone : 1 post by 1 author. I have just posted about a Cotoneaster specimen thought to be C.microphyllus posted by … from Nepal. I explained that he MUST wait until I have sent these images to J.Fryer for determination. I am still (AS ANTICIPATED) […]
Plant photography – a different approach Part 1 – the camera is the LEAST important consideration
Fwd: Plant photography – a different approach Part 1 – the camera is the LEAST important consideration : 3 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1) I have hesitated to comment much for the whole of the group, knowing that what I shall be saying is likely to come as a surprise, perhaps a shock. It […]
Flowers of the Himalaya
Fwd: Child in Manali looking at Flowers of the Himalaya : 5 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (1) During one of the two botanical tours I led to H.P. in the mid-1980s, I walked up to Old Manali from the guest-house my group were staying in with the doctor on the tour and took this slide. I had […]
Child in Manali looking at Flowers of the Himalaya
Fwd: Child in Manali looking at Flowers of the Himalaya : 5 posts by 4 authors. During one of the two botanical tours I led to H.P. in the mid-1980s, I walked up to Old Manali from the guest-house my group were staying in with the doctor on the tour and took this slide. I had a copy […]
Meconopsis latifolia
Meconopsis latifolia (Prain) Prain, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1915: 146 1915. (syn: Meconopsis sinuata var. latifolia Prain); Jammu & Kashmir (Kashmir) as per Catalogue of Life; Monocarpic erect, herbs, with yellow fluid, about 30-100 cm tall. Stem simple, stout, grooved, covered with spreading or deflexed pale yellowish brown or golden brown bristles throughout, about 2-8 […]
Tragia sanjappae
Tragia sanjappae Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr., Rheedea 16: 25 2006. (syn: Tragia involucrata var. angustifolia Hook.f.); Common name: Narrow-Leaf Climbing Nettle S. India as per WCSP; Climbing herbs, ca 75 cm high; stem and branches flattened and striate towards apices, terete to semiterete towards base, 1-4 mm thick, tawny or brown hispid when young, glabrous in […]
Anemonastrum elongatum
Anemonastrum elongatum (D. Don) Holub, Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 8: 165 1973. (syn: Anemone elongata D. Don; Anemone rivularis Wall. (ambiguous synonym)); India (Uttar Pradesh, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh), Sikkim, N-Burma, Nepal, N-Burma, Tibet, Myanmar [Burma] (Kachin, Sagaing) as per Catalogue of Life; Flora of Uttarakhand- Anemone obtusiloba ?: Captured on 12/8/10 during the trek from […]
Hippophae tibetana
Hippophae tibetana Schltdl., Linnaea 32: 296–297 1863. (syn: Hippophae rhamnoides subsp. tibetana (Schltdl.) Servettaz); China (Gansu, Qinghai), Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal, N-India as per Catalogue of Life; Images by Sonam Tamchos Hippophae tibetana from Chumur area of Leh ladakh : 4 posts by 1 author. Attachments (5) Greeting from Ladakh!!! kindly find herewith the original pictures […]
ALIEN plants – how did they arrive in India?
Fwd: ALIEN plants – how did they arrive in India? : 1 post by 1 author. Following my recent post about ‘Aliens & Adventives’, I wish to comment further, raising the question of HOW are such plants spread? In GCSE Biology in the UK students are taught about means of seed dispersal. Such methods – […]
2016
2016- Members who inserted images at efi site : 4 posts by 4 authors. Following members inserted a large number of images on a large number of efi pages as below: Bhagyashri Ranade- around 790 pages Gurcharan Singh- around 360 pages TSP Kumar- around 270 pages D S Rawat – around 250 pages There were small contributions from many other […]
The INADEQUACIES of images of herbarium specimens at low resolution
Fwd: The INADEQUACIES of images of herbarium specimens at low resolution : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (4) Whilst it is great to have available on the internet images of pressed specimens in herbaria, when they are ONLY of low resolution, their value to CONFIRM identifications can be limited. I appreciate when Institutions FIRST […]
Dec.’2016
Gurcharan Singh- Hero of the efloraofindia site in Dec.’2016 : 3 posts by 3 authors. He is The Pitamah of efloraofindia. He has inserted images in around 64 pages in the previous month. Not only this he has also transferred those images to genera pages for comparative viewing along with correcting Ids, where ever possible. He is the […]
Dec.’2016
2015 & 2016
2015 & 2016 (combined)- Members who inserted images at efi site : 2 posts by 2 authors. Following members inserted a large number of images on a large number of efi pages in 2015 & 2016 (combined) as below: Bhagyashri Ranade- around 1180 pages TSP Kumar- around 600 pages D S Rawat – around 540 pages Surajit Koley- around 390 pages […]
Rosa hybrids- Indonesia
Rosaceae Fortnight: Rosa of Indonesia 1 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) We need the id of the following Rosa please. Thanks, …, Was it cultivated or wild ? When and where in Indonesia ? It is cultivated on the fence in Central Java. Rosaceae Fortnight: Rosa of Indonesia 3 […]
Scutellaria heydei
Scutellaria heydei Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 667 1885. ; E. Afghanistan to Tibet ( as per WCSP); Fwd: Scutellaria heydei Hk.f. – NEW to efi : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (2) I attach 2 images taken as slides in the 1980s of Scutellaria heydei photographed for me in Ladakh. This species […]
