• Gasteria species/ hybrids- Hong Kong

    Gasteria carinata var. verrucosa (Mill.) van Jaarsv. : 12 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (5) Location: Hong Kong Park   Date: 15 August 2018 Elevation: 200 ft. Habit : Cultivated Syn : Gasteria verrucosa (Mill.) Duval. can you show us the label they had for this plant, please Also check at http://succulent-plant.com/families/aloaceae/gasteria.html Attachments (1)…

  • Tillandsia cyanea ?

    Tillandsia cyanea ?;   Air plant (Tillandsia) : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2) Presenting two images taken yesterday.   wonderful, … where was it? Can it be Tillandsia cyanea Linden ex K.Koch as per images herein?

  • efloraofindia (eFI) site completes eight years on 2 Nov. 2018

    efloraofindia (eFI) site completes eight years gon 2 Nov. 2018 : 11 posts by 3 authors. Dear members, Here I would like to recall what Rawat ji said three years back: “It was a great futuristic vision of Dinesh ji who created the efloraofindia site which became operative 5 years back on…

  • Plant Diversity in the Himalaya Hotspot Region

    Fwd: New Publication Plant Diversity in the Himalaya Hotspot Region Edited by Prof. Abhaya Prasad Das and Prof. Subir Bera : 3 posts by 2 authors. we are pleased to inform you about our new publication Plant Diversity in the Himalaya Hotspot Region   Edited by Prof. Abhaya Prasad Das and Prof. Subir BeraVolume 1 Pages :…

  • Cyperus pangorei

    Cyperus pangorei Rottb., Descr. Icon. Rar. Pl. 31 1773. (syn: Cyperus dehiscens Kunth; Cyperus pangorei var. ambiguus C.B.Clarke; Cyperus tegetum Roxb.; Papyrus corymbosus Nees; Papyrus dehiscens Nees); Pakistan to S. China and Sri Lanka as per WCSP; Assam; Bangladesh; China South-Central; China Southeast; East Himalaya; Hainan; India; Mauritius; Myanmar; Nepal;…

  • Schweinfurthia

    Schweinfurthia papilionacea (L.) Boiss. (Yemen (coastal Hadhramaut, Inner Hadhramaut), Iran (EC-Iran, E-Iran, E-Iran, S-Iran, S-Iran, W-Iran), Oman (Dhofar, Mascat & Oman), United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan (Kandahar), NW-India, Pakistan (Sind, Baluchistan, Waziristan) as per Catalogue of Life)  

  • Strobilanthes cruciata ?

    Strobilanthes cruciata (Bremek.) Terao, Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 31: 59 1980. (syn: Strobilanthes nagaensis (Bremek.) W.J.Kress & DeFilipps; Tetragoga cruciata Bremek.; Tetragoga nagaensis Bremek.); . India (NE-India), Sumatra, China (Yunnan), Myanmar [Burma] as per Catalogue of Life; . MS Sept, 2018/21 Strobilanthes sp. for ID : 11 posts by 4 authors. Attachments…

  • Common Mime on Ixora species

    Fwd: SYMBIOSIS :1188 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (1) Attaching a collage of Common Mime visiting flowers of Ixora. I hope I. chinensis

  • Begonia adscendens

    Begonia adscendens C.B.Clarke, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 25: 26 1889. ; Assam to Myanmar, S. Laos as per WCSP;   MS Oct,2018/03 Begonia sp. for ID : Location : Lurh, mizoram Date : 03-10-2018 Habit : Herb Habitat : Wild Mizo : Sekhupthur  Thanks, … Do you have any other…

  • Suaeda species ?- Sonadia Island, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

      Plant ID from Bangladesh_SM_4003 : 6 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Picture take, Sep,2018 from Sonadia Island, Cox’s Bazar Suaeda maritima   I think looks different from Suaeda‎ images herein.

  • Ardisia species- Rajnagar, Kumarghat, Unakoti, Tripura

      Rhodesia ? : 5 posts by 3 authors. 4 images. This is from Rajnagar, Kumarghat, Unakoti, Tripura Kindly identify pictures came thru in this case  Appears so. Pl. check species available at  /species/m—z/po/primulaceae/ardisia Could not find a match as per comparative images at Ardisia‎ Also could not match with…

  • Arachis duranensis (Cultivated- Hong Kong)

    Arachis duranensis Krapov. & W.C.Greg. (syn: Arachis argentinensis Speg.; Arachis spegazzinii M.Greg. & W.C.Greg.); Argentina (N) ; Jujuy ; Salta ; Bolivia (N) ; Paraguay (N) as per ILDIS;   SK1487 04 Oct 2018 : 12 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (5) Location: Kowloon Park, Hong Kong  Date: 16 August 2018…

  • Thumbnail viewing problem in Google e-groups?

    Group viewing problem : Can not see any images on the Group : 15 posts by 5 authors. Since yesterday I cannot See thumbnail, view or download any image on this Group. I get a 404 not found error. I have myself been able to crate a post and post images but…

  • Nerium species ?- Sonadia Island, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

      Plant ID from Bangladesh_SM_4009-2 : 19 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (1)- 637 kb  Picture take, Sep,2018 from Sonadia Island, Cox’s Bazar karabi gaachh Thanks, … What is that?  oleander there is a pic that matches this plants leafing habit

  • Balanophora dioica ?

    Balanophora dioica R.Br. ex Royle ?; .   please identify this plant. : 6 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (3) Balanophora sp. root parasite I tried to identify the species from literature but failed to assign the name from the images.  Was it clicked in Nagaland ? Pl. mention the date…

  • Common Emigrant on Bougainvillea cultivar

      Re: SYMBIOSIS : 1186 : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Attaching a collage of Common Emigrant visiting flowers of Bougainvillea. Bright flowers. yet a lighter butterfly is well hidden until one focuses on locating it 

  • Torenia species- Hong Kong

      SK1457 20 Sep 2018 : 9 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (5)- around 500 kb each.  Location: Lantau, Hong Kong  Date: 14 August 2018 Elevation: 3000 ft. Habit : Wild  Is this too Torenia concolor Lindl.  ?? Yes looks like Torenia concolor. To me looks different from images at https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/559770-Torenia-concolorhttp://www.asianflora.com/Scrophulariaceae/Torenia-concolor.htm http://flowers.la.coocan.jp/Linderniaceae/Torenia%20concolor.htm…

  • Plants of the World Online (POWO)

    http://plantsoftheworldonline.org/ : 27 posts by 7 authors. http://plantsoftheworldonline.org/ POWO now contains all Vascular plant families and is now 97.8% complete for species names.  Worth trying by entering a search. Appears to be better than the Plant List.  Thanks …  This is really a wonderful resource for taxonomists.. great. this is…