• Dracaena terniflora

    Dracaena terniflora Roxb., Fl. Ind. ed. 1832 2: 159 1832. (Syn: Dracaena terniflora var. heyneana Hook.f.; Pleomele terniflora (Roxb.) Merr.); dra-SEE-nah — dragon … Dave’s Botanaryter-ni-FLOR-uh — from the Latin, meaning flowers in threes … Dave’s Botanary  commonly known as: dwarf dracaena, wild dracaena • Kannada: ಕೆಂಪು ಬೇರು kempu beru • Malayalam: മഞ്ഞക്കാന്ത manjakkantha • Tulu: ಕೆಂಪುಥ ಬೇರು kemputha beru  Images by Prasad Dash (inserted…

  • Abutilon × hybridum (Cultivated)

    Abutilon ×hybridum hort. ex Voss, Vilm. Blumengärtn. ed. 3, 1:135. 1894; Images by Gurcharan Singh, Gurcharan Singh, Gurcharan Singh & Gurcharan Singh, (inserted by Bhagyashri Ranade) Shrub up to 2 m tall with soft-wood; leaves usually 3-5 lobed, green or variegated; flowers solitary often nodding like a lantern when young, expanding when mature,…

  • Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus (USA)

    Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus (Hook.) Nutt., 324 1840. (Syn: Aster viscidiflorus Kuntze; Bigelowia douglasii A.Gray; Bigelowia douglasii var. latifolia (D.C.Eaton) A.Gray …; Bigelowia glauca (A.Nelson) K.Schum.; Bigelowia viscidiflora (Hook.) DC.; Brickellia linearifolia Klatt; Chrysothamnus douglasii (A.Gray) Clem. & E.G.Clem.; Chrysothamnus glaucus A.Nelson; Chrysothamnus latifolius (D.C.Eaton) Rydb.; Chrysothamnus leucocladus Greene; Chrysothamnus pumilus Nutt. …; Chrysothamnus…

  • Chrysothamnus

      Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus (Hook.) Nutt. (USA) (Images by Mahadeswara Swamy (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the links))

  • Crucihimalaya mollissima

    Crucihimalaya mollissima (C.A.Mey.) Al-Shehbaz, O’Kane & R.A.Price, Novon 9: 299 1999. (Syn: Arabidopsis mollissima (C.A.Mey.) O.E.Schulz; Arabidopsis mollissima (C.A. Mey.) N. Busch; Arabidopsis mollissima var. dentata O.E. Schulz; Arabidopsis mollissima var. glaberrima (Hook.f. & Thomson) Naqshi & Javeid ………..; Hesperis mollissima (C.A. Mey.) Kuntze; Sisymbrium mollissimum C.A. Mey.; Sisymbrium mollissimum f….

  • Arabis

    Arabis amplexicaulis Edgew. (Images by Alok Mahendroo (Id by Gurcharan Singh & J.M.Garg) (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the links))   Arabis amplexicaulis Edgew.?  (Images by Nidhan Singh, Prashant Awale, Dinesh Valke (All Ids by Gurcharan Singh) (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more photos & complete details,…

  • Veronica species/ hybrids

        flora Australia-12: Pl confirm species of-Veronica– family scrophuliaceae Yes looks like Veronica persica   Jawa Herb 2: A herb, maybe Lamiaceae. ID is requested. Please show close up of flower Could be Lamium album, but needs further study To me this looks more like a Veronica sp….. Perhaps…

  • Madhuca species ?

    Madhuca species ?;     Is this a grafted Madhuca Indica sapling?:  We had visited SFRI, Jabalpur this week for obtaining a grafted ‘Madhuca indica’ sapling but were told this would not be possible for them to provide now as they had to meet their targets for the panchayat etc. So…

  • Crucihimalaya

    Crucihimalaya axillaris (Hook.f. & Thomson) Al-Shehbaz, O’Kane & R.A.Price (Himalaya to Tibet: East Himalaya, Nepal, Tibet, West Himalaya as per POWO)    Crucihimalaya himalaica (Edgew.) Al-Shehbaz, O’Kane & R.A.Price Crucihimalaya mollissima (C.A.Mey.) Al-Shehbaz  Crucihimalaya wallichii (Hook.f. & Thomson) Al-Shehbaz, O’Kane & R.A.Price  

  • Cassiope fastigiata

    Cassiope fastigiata (Wall.) D.Don , Edinburgh New Philos. J. 17: 156 1834. (Syn: Andromeda fastigiata Wall.);   A much-branched tufted shrublet usually less than 20 cm tall with closely packed thick small leaves arranged in four rows; flowers axillary, pendent, white on up to 7 mm long pedicels; calyx with…

  • Cassiope

      Cassiope fastigiata (Wall.) D.Don  

  • Lentinus tigrinus ?

    Lentinus tigrinus (Bull.) Fr., 1825 (syn: Agaricus dunalii DC., 1815 ..; Agaricus tigrinus Bull., 1782; Clitocybe tigrina (Bull.) P. Kumm., 1871; Lentinus dunalii (DC.) Fr., 1825; Lentinus fimbriatus Curr., 1863; Lentinus tigrinus var. dunalii (DC.) Rea, 1922 (ambiguous synonym) ….; Omphalia tigrina (Bull.) Gray, 1821; Panus tigrinus (Bull.) Singer, 1951; Pleurotus…

  • Acanthus leucostachyus

    Acanthus leucostachyus Wall. ex Nees, Pl. Asiat. Rar. 3: 98 1832. (syn: Acanthus leucostachyus Wall.); . E. Himalaya to China (Yunnan) and Indo-China: Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam as per POWO; . Herbs to 1 m tall, erect, unbranched. Stem brown, ca. 4 mm in diam.,…

  • Silene species

        flora-Australia 8 : A herb `Silene.-F-Caryophyllaceae     Caryophyllaceae Week: 08122012GS1 Silene for ID from Kashmir: Please help in the ID of this species. Cultivated annual barely 25 cm tall with pink small flowers barely 5-8 mm broad. Photographed from Garden in Srinagar, Kashmir        

  • Saussurea albescens

    Saussurea albescens (DC.) Sch.Bip., Linnaea 19: 330 1846. (Syn: Aplotaxis albescens DC.; Himalaiella albescens (DC.) (Unresolved)); . Tall perennial herb reaching 3 m with several stems from base; leaves linear, lanceolate, elliptic to oblong, lower petioled and sinuately lobed, upper entire and nearly sessile, up to 30 cm long, white woolly…

  • Opuntia species

    Opuntia mickeyum 922011 – UD 001:  for your perusal …. Date/Time-   9 2 2011 named  Photo from 2008 summer Location- Place, Altitude, GPS-  Sea level Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type-  Nursery Plant Habit- Tree/ Shrub/ Climber/ Herb-  small plant, just starting out Height/Length-  10 inches at the most Leaves Type/…

  • Potamogeton nodosus

    Potamogeton nodosus Poir.,  Encycl. Suppl. 4: 535 1816. (Syn: Potamogeton americanus Cham. & Schltdl., nom.illeg.; Potamogeton americanus subsp. mascarensis (Cham. & Schltdl.) A.Benn.; Potamogeton americanus var. novaeboracensis (Morong) A.Benn.; Potamogeton americanus var. thunbergii (Cham. & Schltdl.) A.Benn.; Potamogeton canariensis Link; Potamogeton drucei Fryer; Potamogeton fluitans subsp. americanus Graebn.; Potamogeton fluitans…