Biophytum veldkampii Shanavas, Santhosh, Binu & Pushpangadan, Rheedea 8: 79 1998. ; endemic species of Kerala state; Biophytum veldkampii : 6 images. Biophytum veldkampii Shanavas, Santhosh, Binu & Pushpangadan, an endemic species of Kerala state. Photo taken from Kerala by E S Santhosh Kumar very nice set of this endemic plant !! What […]
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Aporocactus species ?
Aporocactus species ?; Cactus for ID : Flower Show,Mumbai : 050313 : AK-1 : 1 image. A cactus seen at the flower show in Mumbai during Feb,2011. Cultivated, ornamental, potted plant. Mmmhh, interesting! Some kind of Aporocactus? weird growth pattern…
Aporocactus
Aporocactus species ?
Haageocereus species
Haageocereus species; Cactus for ID : Flower Show,Mumbai : 050313 : AK-2 : 2 images. Another discussion addresses this topic: You were redirected here from a topic that was marked as a duplicate: Another cactus seen at the flower show in Mumbai during Feb,2011. An ornamental, potted plant Looks like one […]
Haageocereus
Haageocereus species
Geranium richardsonii (USA)
Geranium richardsonii Fisch. & Trautv., Index Seminum (LE) 4: 37 1838. (syn: Geranium albiflorum Hook. [Illegitimate]; Geranium hookerianum Walp.; Geranium loloense H.St.John; Geranium pentagynum Engelm.; Geranium richardsonii var. intermedium Kuntze); It is native to western North America from Alaska to New Mexico, where it can be found in a number of habitats, especially mountains […]
Flowering Plants of the Western Ghats
Flowering Plants of the Western Ghats : 4 posts by 4 authors. Have just received my copies of ‘Flowering Plants of the Western Ghats’ by T.S.Nayar, M. Sibi & A. Rasiya Beegam. It is in 2 volumes. The price is Rs.2632 [inclusive of postage]. For those intending to buy them, please be warned […]
Lens culinaris
Lens culinaris Medik. (Syn: Ervum lens Wall.; Vicia lens (L.) Cosson & Germ.; Vicia pisicarpa H. Lév.; Ervum lens L.; Lens esculenta Moench; Lens lens Huth; Vicia lens (L.) Coss. & Germ.; (=) Cicer lens (L.) Willd.; (=) Lentilla lens (L.) W. Wight ex D. Fairchild); The lentil (Lens culinaris) (International Feed Number, 5-02-506) is […]
Lens
Lens culinaris Medik.
Mammillaria species- Flower Show, Mumbai
Cactus for ID : Flower Show,Mumbai : 020313 : AK-3: Another cactus seen at the Flower Show in Mumbai in Feb,2011. Cultivated, potted plant. Mammillaria compressa There are a few that look like this …, And not sure why it is grafted, as they are all easy on their own roots. I […]
Cleistocactus winteri ?
Cleistocactus winteri D.R.Hunt, Bradleya 6: 100 1988. (Syn: Borzicactus aureispinus (F.Ritter) G.D.Rowley; Cleistocactus aureispinus (F.Ritter) D.R.Hunt [Illegitimate]; Loxanthocereus aureispinus (F. Ritter) Buxb.; Winteria aureispina F. Ritter; Winterocereus aureispinus (F. Ritter) Backeb.) ?; Golden Rat Tail; Cactus for ID : Flower Show,Mumbai : 020313 : AK-1: A cactus seen at the Flower […]
Cleistocactus
Cleistocactus icosagonus (Kunth) A.Weber Cleistocactus samaipatanus (Cárdenas) D.R.Hunt ? Cleistocactus species Cleistocactus? Cleistocactus brookeae Cárdenas? – Duars Cleistocactus acanthurus (Vaupel) D.R.Hunt Cleistocactus winteri D.R.Hunt ?
Cobaea scandens (Introduced)
Cobaea scandens Cav., Icon. 1: 11 1791. (syn: Cobaea lasseri Pittier; Rosenbergia scandens (Cav.) House); Mexico (Chiapas, Coahuila, Ciudad de Mexico, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Mexico State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, Veracruz), Honduras (I), Guatemala (I), Costa Rica (I), Australia (I) (New South Wales (I)), Java (I), Peru (I), […]
Cobaea
Cobaea scandens Cav. (Introduced) (Mexico (Chiapas, Coahuila, Ciudad de Mexico, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Mexico State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, Veracruz), Honduras (I), Guatemala (I), Costa Rica (I), Australia (I) (New South Wales (I)), Java (I), Peru (I), Cuba (I), Jamaica (I), Bolivia (I), Ecuador (I), Venezuela (I), Colombia […]
Scientific Plant Names Dictionary- for flora occurring in Western Australia
Scientific Plant Names Dictionary: Scientific Plant Names Dictionary The dictionary file wacensus.dic contains 12,641 entries representing botanical names, at various taxonomic ranks for the native and naturalised flora occurring in Western Australia. Specifically, the names are derived across kingdoms (5), divisions (26), classes and subclasses (46), orders (118), families and subfamilies (816) and […]
Cassia moschata
Cassia moschata Kunth, F. W. H. A. von Humboldt et al., Nov. gen. sp. 6:266[folio]; 6:338[quarto]. 1824 (Syn: Cathartocarpus moschatus (Kunth) G.Don); images by Raman Arunachalam Images by tspkumar Request Tree ID 151 – Lalbagh, Bangalore – RA – What cassia is this?: (10 images). It was a beautiful tree in full bloom. It looks […]
Malabar Whistling Thrush
A question from Matheran!: It is (or it was) perceived that Malabar Whistling Thrushs are breeding visitors in Mumbai wildlife region. Particularly in Monsson they are seen and observed near the flowing streams. They are sometimes located and identified through their typical whistling call adn sometimes through their quick flight type appearance, in […]
Fungi- Chamba, HP
Fungi of Kalatope – Al010112 – Fungi: (4 images) Some of the fungi I came across during my ramblings in Kalatope… Location Kalatope, Chamba, HPAltitude 2100 mtsHabitat wildHeight 3 inchesGrowing on Conifer litter under pine and cedarseason July
Mammillaria species- Flower Show, Mumbai
Cactus for ID : Flower Show,Mumbai : 230213 : AK-3: Another cultivated, ornamental, potted cactus at the flower show in Mumbai, during Feb, 2011. Id please. mammillaria Hard to tell without flowers …, But overall, it looks like Mammillaria rhodantha to me, if the flowers are a deep red, that is probably […]
Mammillaria species- Flower Show, Mumbai
Cactus for ID : Flower Show,Mumbai : 230213 : AK-2: Another cactus seen at the Flower Show in Mumbai, during Feb, 2011. A cultivated, potted plant. That is a Mammillaria cv, monstrose something, can’t remember the species Some kind of Mammillaria monstrose nudum, but I have no accurate id.
