• Bergenia Cultivar- Michigan, USA

      Requesting ID of this plant with pink flowers – Michigan, USA : 17062013 : ARK-03 : Attachments (2). 3 posts by 2 authors. Requesting to please ID this plant with pink flowers captured in Michigan, USA in May 2013. Any Bergenia ?? Bergenia ciliata We would need to view…

  • Androsace globifera

    Androsace globifera Duby, Prodr. 8: 48 1844. (syn: Primula globifera (Duby) Kuntze (ambiguous synonym);  Primula globifera (Duby) S.S.R. Bennet & M.B. Raizada (ambiguous synonym)); . Himalaya to SW. Tibet: East Himalaya, Nepal, Tibet as per POWO; . SW-Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal, India (Indian Punjab, Assam, etc.), Pakistani Kashmir (Nanga Parbat, Gilgit)…

  • Geranium pratense

    Geranium pratense L., Sp. Pl. 681 1753. (Syn: Geranium acknerianum Schur; Geranium alpinum Kit. ex Kanitz [Illegitimate]; Geranium batrachioides Bubani; Geranium caeruleum Gilib. [Invalid]; Geranium coelestinum Schur; Geranium kemulariae Kharadze; Geranium mariae Sennen; Geranium napellifolium Schur; Geranium neapolitanum Nyman; Geranium pratense var. affine (Ledeb.) C.C. Huang & L.R. Xu …………; Geranium…

  • An online resource for the world’s plants

    Plants of the World online portal : 5 posts by 3 authors. I came upon the following link which may be found helpful. http://wfo.kew.org Thanks … for information and the link. Once complete it should be real asset taking us back to versatility of Famous Index Kewensis. The amount of…

  • Fresh survey of Indian orchids need of the hour

    Fresh survey of Indian orchids need of the hour : 1 post by 1 author. This could be of your interest. http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/fresh-survey-of-indian-orchids-need-of-the-hour-116112000201_1.html  

  • Bergenia pacumbis

    Bergenia pacumbis (Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don) C.Y. Wu & J.T. Pan,  Acta Phytotax. Sin. 26: 126 1988. (syn: Bergenia ciliata f. ligulata Yeo; Bergenia himalaica Boriss.; Bergenia ligulata (Wall.) Engl.; Saxifraga ligulata Wall.; Saxifraga ligulata var. densiflora Ser.; Saxifraga ligulata var. minor Wall. ex Ser.; Saxifraga pacumbis Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don);…

  • Syzygium tetragonum

    Syzygium tetragonum (Wight) Wall. ex Walp., Repert. Bot. Syst. 2: 179 1843. (syn: Eugenia subviridis Craib; Eugenia tetragona Wight; Syzygium nienkui Merr. & L.M.Perry); China (Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan), SE-Tibet, Myanmar [Burma] (Kachin, Mandalay, Sagaing), Bhutan, India (Darjeeling), E-Nepal, ?Java, ?Sumatra, Assam, Bangladesh, Thailand as per Catalogue of Life; Nepal to…

  • Heritage Tree Walk @ Vadodara on Sunday 20/11/2016

    Heritage Tree Walk @ Vadodara on Sunday 20/11/2016 : 3 posts by 3 authors. ALL INTERESTED GRUOP MEMBERS ARE INVITED, Great, … I wish I were there. Heritage trees are to be treasured. i love this idea and the effort

  • Eriocaulon species- Mulshi, Maharastra

      Plant for ID 23/11/2011 : SMP2: Is it possible to ID this Eriocaulon species from this photograph.Height 8-10 cm Observed in Mulshi. It was near rice fields on plains Not near waterbody. Similar occasional plants also observed nearby. It is very much difficult to identify a Eriocaulon sp. from…

  • Eriocaulon species- Matheran, Maharastra

        31.08.11.JP.03 – Eriocaulon spp. identification3: The third and final species of Eriocaulon seen at Matheran.The flower size of this one was extremely minute. The photo of the close up is taken with a 55mm lens attached with a +10 magnification filter.

  • Eriocaulon species- Matheran, Maharastra

      31.08.11.JP.02 – Eriocaulon spp. identification2: Another species of Eriocaulon seen at Matheran.This one has prominent (involucral?) bracts beneath the inflorescence. This could be Eriocaulon heterolepis Steudel, which has long exceeding involucral bracts. I have collected this species myself from Maharashtra. However, I can not confirm the identity without seeing…

  • Rhododendron arboreum ?

    Rhododendron arboreum ?; . Is this a ficus tree?: Photograph taken in March in Pangot in the Himalayan Hills. This is Rhododendron sp. Rhododendron sp. may be arboreum Please check    

  • Rhododendron arboreum var. cinnamomeum

    Rhododendron arboreum var. cinnamomeum Wall. ex Lindl., Edwards’s Bot. Reg. 23: , pl. 1982 1837. (syn: Rhododendron arboreum subsp. campbelliae (Hook. fil.) Tagg; Rhododendron arboreum subsp. cinnamomeum (Wall. ex Lindl.) Tagg; Rhododendron arboreum var. cinnamomeum (Wall. ex Lindl.) W.K. Hu; Rhododendron campbelliae Hook. fil.; Rhododendron campbelliae Hook. fil.) ?;    S-Tibet,…

  • Rhododendron/ Azalea- Planted in Medikere, Chikkamagalur, Karnataka

      Pink Haut – Flower from Mudigere 03Mar2012AR01: Leaf -5cms approx, Whorl, elliptic to linear, Flower-3-4cms Habitat Home garden in a coffee estate  Mudigere, Chikkamagalur, Karnataka, Western ghats   13 Dec 2011 05:40PM Its a species of Rhododendron, most probably the type species Rhododendron ferrugineum of Ericaceae This looks like Azalea…

  • Lansium

    Lansium domesticum Corrêa  

  • Gastrochilus flabelliformis ?

    Gastrochilus flabelliformis ?; . Orchidaceae for identification 090213MK01: Please help me to identify this Orchid found in a moist forest (sub-tropical evergreen forest). Date: 27 Dec 2012 Place: Kolli Hills, TN Alt.: 1400 m asl This looks like a Gastrochilus. Will have to see the flowers to confirm the species. Yes its looks like Gastrochilus,…