• 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Tree at Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh

    Tree species for ID 28022013 KSK3-4: Another discussion addresses this topic: You were redirected here from a topic that was marked as a duplicate: Please identified the attached photograph of tree species recorded from Dibang Valley district, Arunachal Pradesh. Details are as below: Date/Time- 28.02.2013 11 am Location- Place, Altitude,…

  • Celtis caucasica

    Celtis caucasica Willd., Sp. Pl., ed. 4. 4: 994 (1806) (syn: Celtis arcata Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. ; Celtis australis subsp. caucasica (Willd.) C.C.Towns. ; Celtis caucasica var. caudata Planch. ; Celtis caucasica subsp. caudata (Planch.) Grudz. ; Celtis caucasica var. cuspidata Planch. ; Celtis caucasica var. tupalangi (Vassilcz.) Bondarenko ; Celtis inglisii Royle ; Celtis tupalangi Vassilcz.) ; . Türkiye to Central Asia and Assam: Afghanistan, Assam, East Himalaya, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Nepal,…

  • 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)…

  • Lens

    Lens culinaris Medik.

  • Pelargonium graveolens

    Pelargonium graveolens L’Hér., Geraniologia , pl. 17 1792. (syn: Pelargonium intermedium Kunth;                             (=) Geranium terebinthinaceum Cav.; (=) Pelargonium terebinthinaceum (Cav.) Desf.); . pe-lar-GO-nee-um — from the Greek for stork – referring to the seed heads … Dave’s Botanary grav-ee-OH-lens — heavy scented, unpleasant smell … Dave’s Botanary . commonly known…

  • Markhamia species ?- Tree at Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh

    Tree species for ID 28022013 KSK1-2: Please identified the attached photograph of tree species recorded from Dibang Valley district, Arunachal Pradesh. Details are as below: Date/Time- 28.02.2013 11 am Location- Place, Altitude, GPS- Dibang Valley District, Arunachal Pradesh , Altitude- 400-800 masl Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type- Wild Plant Habit-…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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),…

  • 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),…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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