• Phalaenopsis hybrids- Kalimpong, West Bengal

      SK1286 14 JUL 2018 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2) Location:  Kalimpong, WB, India Date: 11 May 2018 Altitude: 4000 ft. Habit : Cultivated Phalaenopsis hybrid?? Specific ID ?? Yes Phalaenopsis hybrid.  

  • Paphiopedilum hybrid- Kalimpong, West Bengal

      SK1289 15 JUL 2018 : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2) Location:  Kalimpong, WB, India Date: 11 May 2018 Altitude: 4000 ft. Habit : Cultivated Which Paph is this ?  Why do you have the labellum missing? I am not good in hybrids, but this one looks like a hybrid of…

  • Tautonym

    … some trivial query :: 13 JUL 2018 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Often we find scientific names where genus and species are made of same names, for example: Cajanus cajan, Samanea saman, Sesbania sesban, and so on. Are such scientific names known by some term ? I got…

  • Phalaenopsis hybrid- Kalimpong, West Bengal

      SK1282 13 JUL 2018 : 3 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2) – 1 Mb or more. Location:  Kalimpong, WB, India Date: 11 May 2018 Altitude: 4000 ft. Habit : Cultivated Phalaenopsis cultivar. ID please ? Phalaenopsis hybrid.  

  • Euonymus frigidus

    Euonymus frigidus Wall., Fl. Ind. 2: 409 1824. (syn: Euonymus amygdalifolius Franch.; Euonymus austro-tibetanus Y.R. Li; Euonymus burmanicus Merrill; Euonymus crinitus Pamp.; Euonymus crinitus var. minor Pamp.; Euonymus dasydictyon Loes. & Rehder; Euonymus fugongensis Y.R.Li; Euonymus gongshanensis Y.R.Li; Euonymus porphyreus Loes.; Euonymus porphyreus var. angustifolius L.C. Wang & X.G. Sun;…

  • Heracleum species ?- Assam

      Heracleum sp. from Assam KD 02 2018 : 8 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (4) Attached images are Heracleum sp.. Pl. Id the plant Date :.June, 2018Location: AssamFamily : ApiaceaeGenus & species : Heracleum sp. (?)Habitat: Grows wild on marshy placesHabit : Herb  Pl. check  https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a—l/a/apiaceae/heracleum Does not seem to match with any…

  • Rhododendron cultivar- Kalimpong, West Bengal

      SK1280 12 JUL 2018 : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3)- around 900 kb each.  Location:  Kalimpong, WB, India Date: 11 May 2018 Altitude: 4000 ft. Habit : Cultivated Azalea cultivar ? May be.   

  • Podocarpus species ?- Arunachal Pradesh

      Pls help me identify:  I collected this plant from a lower subtropical semi evergreen forest of Arunachal in the month of February 2011. Your plant looks interesting….. Didn’t u find any flower/fruits? Anyway….. looking for some more fotos of this plant and others too. Any chance for Podocarpus sp.? May…

  • Maianthemum species- Sandakphu, West Bengal

      SK1197 12 JUNE 2018 : 13 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (4) Location: Sandakphu, India Date: 13 May 2018 Altitude: 12000 ft. Habit : Wild Plantago? Does not look like !  I think a plant with similar looking leaves was posted by you very recently from around the same area….

  • Fuchsia hybrid- Munnar, Kerala

      efloraindia: 101011 BRS 57:  Pl. find the attached file contain photos for id. request. Date/Time-Location- 06.10.2011, Place, Altitude, GPS-  Munnar, (Kerala) 1800 MSL Habitat- Garden Plant Habit-  Shrub Flowers Size/ Colour- red.  some Fushcia species. Yes Fuchsia sp Fushcia sp also called /ballerina/

  • Fuchsia ‘Rose of Castile’

    Fuchsia ‘Rose of Castile’;   for ID : (mixed thread): 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1) This was taken in Tumling near Nepal on 14/10/07. This is a Fuchsia hybrid – a garden plant – probably ‘Rose of Castille’. It is Fuchsia Riccartonii.  I have seen them in Gurdum (…

  • Ardisia polysticta

    Ardisia polysticta Miq., Fl. Ned. Ind., Eerste Bijv. 576 1861. (syn: Ardisia evonymifolia Pit.; Ardisia flaviflora C. Chen & D. Fang; Ardisia jagorii Mez; Ardisia lenticellata Fletcher; Ardisia nemorosa Pit.; Ardisia oldhamii Mez; Ardisia pardalina Mez; Ardisia perpunctata Elmer ex Merr.; Ardisia radians Hemsl. & Mez; Ardisia ramosii Merr.; Ardisia…

  • Litsea species- Unnamed place

      litsea species : 4 posts by 2 authors. 2 images. Pl. check at  /species/a—l/l/lauraceae/litsea When and where was it clicked ?  

  • Neuwiedia zollingeri var. singapureana (Hongkong)

    Neuwiedia zollingeri var. singapureana (Wall. ex Baker) de Vogel (Syn: Neuwiedia balansae Baill. ex Gagnep. ; Neuwiedia curtisii Rolfe; Neuwiedia ochracea Ridl.; Neuwiedia singapureana (Wall. ex Baker) Rolfe; Neuwiedia zollingeri var. balansae (Baill. ex Gagnep.) Aver.; Tupistra singapureana Wall. ex Baker); Borneo; China South-Central; China Southeast; Hainan; Malaya; Sumatera; Thailand; Vietnam as per Catalogue Of Life   Neuweidia zollingeri var. singapureana from Hong…

  • Bulbophyllum ocellatum (Phillipines)

    Bulbophyllum ocellatum Cootes & M.A.Clem.;   Bulbophyllum ocellatum from my balcony. : 5 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (1)- 2 MB.  Bulbophyllum ocellatum from my balcony in HK. Endemic to Phillipines. 07.07.2018 References: The Plant List Ver. 1.1  Catalogue of Life

  • 89. Efloraofindia website updated upto 30th June’18

    Efloraofindia website updated upto 30th June’18- more than 12,000 species : 2 posts by 2 authors. It’s heartening to reiterate that Efloraofindia is the largest google e-group/ forum in the world in this field & the largest nature related e-group (and the most constructive) in India with around 2,99,400 messages…

  • Tropidia curculigoides

    Tropidia curculigoides Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl. 497 1840. (syn: Schoenomorphus capitatus Thorel ex Gagnep.; Tropidia assamica Blume; Tropidia graminea Blume; Tropidia hongkongensis Rolfe; Tropidia squamata Blume); E. Himalaya to New Caledonia as per WCSP; Andaman Is.; Assam; Bangladesh; Borneo; Cambodia; China South-Central; China Southeast; East Himalaya; Hainan; India; Jawa;…