Smita Raskar

Since i was kid i was crazy lover of every green plant both flowering and non flowering  so obviously i have studied Botany in my MSc My first choice for career was to become Plant Taxonomist but destiny made me teacher,  for few years i went on only teaching Biology  Some one said love never […]

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Rosa hybrids- Indonesia

  Rosaceae Fortnight: Rosa of Indonesia 1-PW-020915 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (1) Could you id our Rosa please.    Rosaceae Fortnight: Rosa of Indonesia 2-PW_020915 : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) We need you help to id our Rosa please.  Thank you. We need you help to id our Rosa […]

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Rosa hybrids- Karnala & Manali

  Rosaceae Fortnight :: cultivated roses :: various places :: DVSEP17 : 1 post by 1 author. 7 images. cultivated roses at a nursery in Karnala on October 25, 2008 at Manali on June 2 – 4, 2008

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The Arctic Circle

The Arctic Circle : 3 posts by 3 authors. My new book, The Arctic Circle, has been released recently. It is a collection of 6 short stories mixed with science and personal productivity and is available over at Amazon- free if you have Kindle Unlimited 🙂 (otherwise too it’s cheap, INR 192) http://www.amazon.in/Arctic-Circle-remarkable-covering-productivity-ebook/dp/B013QWIFNC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1441192511&sr=8-1&keywords=arctic+circle Let me […]

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Photinia villosa var. sinica (Cultivated- Poland)

Photinia villosa var. sinica Rehder & E.H.Wilson, Plantae wilsonianae Plantae wilsonianae; 1911 186 1912. (syn: Photinia cardotii F.P.Metcalf; Photinia parvifolia var. kankoensis (Hatus.) T.T.Yu & K.C.Kuan; Photinia subumbellata var. villosa Cardot; Pourthiaea kankoensis Hatus.; Pourthiaea villosa var. sinica (Rehder & E.H.Wilson) Migo);   Rosaceae Fortnight Photenia vilosa-PC-12-02.09.2015 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (4) […]

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Malus ‘Red Jade’

  Rosaceae Fortnight Malus “Red Jade”-PC-11-02.09.2015 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (2) Malus “Red Jade” from Botanical Garden, Warsaw.

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Rosa ‘Tommelise’

  Rosaceae Fortnight Rosa tommelise-PC-07-02.09.2015 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (4) Rose ‘Tommelise’ from Botanical Garden Warsaw. It is a single rose not multi-petal.

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Waldsteinia geoides (Cultivated- Poland)

Waldsteinia geoides Willd., Neue Schriften Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin ii. (1799) 106. (syn: Geum waldsteinia Baill.);   Rosaceae Fortnight Waldesteinia gioides-PC-06-02.09.2015 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (4) Another rosaceae plant Waldesteinia gioides from Botanical garden Warsaw. I could not find any flower on that plant also. References: The Plant List Ver.1.1  IPNI  missouri botanical garden Hortipedia  The Alpine Garden […]

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Ligularia dentata (Cultivated- Poland)

Ligularia dentata (A.Gray) Hara, 318 1939. (syn: Erythrochaete dentata A.Gray; Ligularia clivorum Maxim.; Ligularia japonica var. clivorum (Maxim.) Makino; Senecillis dentata (A.Gray) Kitam.; Senecio clivorum (Maxim.) Maxim.; Senecio japonicus var. integrifolius Matsum.; Senecio labordei Vaniot); Images by Promila Chaturvedi (Id by Alastair Culham) (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the […]

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Symphoricarpos albus (Cultivated- Poland)

Symphoricarpos albus (L.) S.F.Blake, Rhodora 16: 118 1914. (syn: Lonicera alba (L.) Druce; Symphoricarpos albus var. albus ; Vaccinium album L.; Xylosteon album (L.) Moldenke) ; Images by Promila (ID by Alastair Culham) Symphoricarpos albus is a species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family known by the common name common snowberry. It is native […]

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Spathiphyllum hybrids- Warsaw, Poland

  Plant for ID-PC-31-25.08.2015 : 8 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (3) please Identify the plant in this Picture. From Warshaw, Poland. the first two look loke Calla (Bog Arum, Marsh Calla, Wild Calla) though not quite sure. the third one is not the same as the first two, i suppose. All the snaps are […]

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Acalypha alnifolia

Acalypha alnifolia Klein ex Willd., Sp. Pl. 4: 525 1805. (syn: Acalypha alnifolia Wall. [Invalid]; Acalypha capitata Willd.; Acalypha capitata var. ambigua Müll.Arg.; Ricinocarpus alnifolius (Klein ex Willd.) Kuntze; Ricinocarpus capitatus (Willd.) Kuntze); Common name: Alder Leaved Cat Tail • Telugu: Chiru kuppinta, Mirapa kuppinta   Shrubs, branchlets densely hispid. Leaves 2-2.5 x 1.5-2 cm, […]

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Geranium species ?- Wetter, Germany

    Plant from Wetter for ID-PC-47-29.08.2015 : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2) here is another plant from Wetter, Germany. The was clear only for a short time and I ran to take few snaps. I do not have any other photograph of the plant and snaps are not very clear. I think […]

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Viola hederacea (Cultivated- USA)

Viola hederacea Labill., Pl. Nov. Holl. 1: 66 1805.; Viola hederacea is a species of violet which is native to Australia. It is common and widespread in Victoria and Tasmania, along the Great Dividing Range in New South Wales north at least to the Barrington Tops area, in the far south-east of South Australia, and […]

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Rosa hybrids- Wetter, Germany

  Rosaceae Fortnight-Rose from Wetter pavement, Germany-PC-01-01.09 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (2) a Floribunda Rose from a road side pavement, Wetter, Germany. Please identify it.   Rosaceae Fortnight-Rose plant from Wetter-PC-04-01.09 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (3) Here is another rose from a road side at Wetter.   Rosaceae Fortnight Rose for […]

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Journey to & through efi

Idea is to have our members write a page about their journey to & through efloraofindia. And it has been appropriately incorporated in efloraofindia site here.   It shows to the outside world the passion & hard work that has gone into the making of efloraofindia. It also highlights the diversity of the type of persons engaged […]

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Ashwini Bhatia

I have lived and worked in the Himalayan region of upper Dharamshala for almost two decades. When I first arrived here I lived in a wood cabin above a lake surrounded by cedars, oaks, pines and rhododendrons. The woods hosted a large number of birds and I woke up every morning to the song of […]

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Nidhan Singh

Efloraofindia: A Beautiful Voyage through Plant World   Dear Friends of Efloraofindia, It was one fine day of November 2010, I was in Shimla for a refresher course, when I was first introduced to this wonderful group. I joined the group, though hesitating, for so little I knew about Indian flora. I got a hearty […]

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Pankaj Kumar

I was a school student, may be 7th standard, when I started going into forests and nearby streams to see plants and during this time I collected a plant which I could identify as an orchid, Vanda, only when I started my Bachelor Degree. I come from a small town of Ranchi, where my father […]

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