Category: Miscellaneous

    Value of a tree: In one day a human being breathes oxygen equivalent to 3 cylinders. Each oxygen cylinder on an average costs Rs 700, so in a day one uses Oxygen worth Rs 2100 and for a full year it is Rs 7,66,500. If we consider an average life span of 65 […]

Malayalam names-reg.: A help required. I need the malayalam names of the following plants and if possible their availability in and around Alapuzha or Cochin of Kerala. Croton sparsiflorus/tiglium Ocimum basillicum Pedallium murax Acorus salamus Vitex negundo Atlantia monophylla You may have a try at efi site by searching on the species name: /home Or […]

    Seeds of plant:  Indigenous Trees Seeds of India.pdf as attachment.

Bamboo water fountain: I would like to share the pictures of Bamboo Water fountain at NBNP, based on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shishi_odoshi http://nbranaikatti.blogspot.in/2012/01/shishi-odoshi.html. This set up work very well for house garden.      

    Father Santapau – 109th birth anniversary: I have just been informed by a good friend from Spain that today is the 109th birth anniversary of Father Santapau. My friend Miguel’s uncle, also a Jesuit and serious plant aficionado, knew him very well and both of them shared the same birthplace in north-east Spain. […]

Miscellaneous Links;       Worried about our Kashmiri friends   In 2013  Google Impact Challenge Fw: Three-step plan to save the bee Wild Maharashtra Photography Competition by MSBB   RHS Information     In 2012  Link to Matheran Pics indigenous plants for nursery Free Access to Plant Science Journals Till Dec. 2012 from Springer A must […]

Flowers offered to Shiv ji: During recent visit to Chhattisgarh forest I took this picture. Hibiscus and Datura flowers with Marigold were offered to Shiv ji.    I was told that Hibiscus rosa-sinensis is Devi Phool offered to The Goddess only not to Shiv ji. But there is difference in opinion. … can throw more […]