Connections = White Flowers = fragrance = Night Blooming: I had read it somewhere, though unable to recollect the source, that most of night blooming flowers are fragrant and are white in colour. Would love to hear efI members view on it. Yes … White and other light coloured flowers shine in moonlight […]
Category: Botany & Taxonomy related
Is leguminosae called Fabaceae ?
is leguminosae now called Fabaceae?: i have an query …though an stupid one…..is leguminosae now called Fabaceae? i thought papilionaceae is called fabaceae…..so whats papilionaceae called then? To understand this you have to first understand what rank we are giving to the three subfamilies 1. If we treat legumes in the broader sense […]
Querry about double fertilisation
querry about double fertilisation.: please clear my doubt about this double fertilisation….Considering double fertilization in angiosperms, how many sperm are involved in the formation of a mature 2-seeded peanut pod? According to my knowledge..double fertiliztion involves 2 male gamete (for every seed)..as follows.. one male gamete fuse female gamete to form zygote..which later […]
Invasive species : threat to local flora
Invasive species : threat to local flora:
Queries about nectaries
Queries about nectaries.: Nectaries may be floral (inside the flower) or extrafloral (nectaries present on the part of the plant other than the flower. eg.nectaries at the meeting point of petiole and the leaf blade of Ricinus).As we all know that floral nectaries have a great role in pollination by attracting insects but […]
Kyd – Roxburgh – Indian Botanic Garden
Kyd – Roxburgh – Indian Botanic Garden – BSI: Tuesday, the 17th July 2012, i was on a time machine and travelled to the days of Colonel Robert Kyd, the founder of “Indian Botanic Garden”, …and to the days of William Roxburgh, “The Father of Indian Botany” who authored “PLANTS of The COAST […]
Describing Flowering Plants
Describing Flowering Plants: Recently I got the set of books as a gift and along with it was this pamplet. I am sure this can be of use to you all in checking and describing your plants following the keys.Enjoy and have a great week ahead
query about saprophytic plants
query about saprophytic plants…: Now all the saprophytic plants are commonly classified as mycoheterothophic plants…Does all the saprophytic plants have an association with a particular fungus???All the members please clear my doubt. I will reply positively to your query. The research on fungal symbiosis shows, without the help of the fungi it becomes […]
Latest classification
Latest classification _Bentham and hookar: i was start to work in the filed of plant taxonomy and ecology since last four year and during this course of time, i was came to know that there is a name of various species, genera and family were changed. in addition, some of the species and […]
Names of plants- mini lexique
Names of plants in India – mini lexique: It would be useful to every one to have a kind of mini lexique covering the basic words which can be found in plant names. Something like this:ASSAMESE:BENGALI :ENGLISH : 1.Leaf, 2. leaves, 3 flower, 4. fruit, 5. treeGUJARATI : HINDI : 1. , 2. […]
Botany related- links
Botany related- links; Threatened ferns of India EXAMPLES OF HOW TO MAKE A PHOTO – DOCUMENTATION SET OF A PLANT How to Save Water in Gardening How to process leaves to skeletalize them for veins Misidentification makes scientific publications worthless – save our taxonomy and taxonomists How much trustworthy is the website theplantlist.org Why do […]