List of flowers most butterflies visit

  Fwd: SYMBIOSIS : FLOWER 1/ BUTTERFLY : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) As you all know I am in the process of documenting butterfly species visiting different flowers. I am doing it for last 12 years.It all started on the Chandan tree ( Santalum album ) in our house. I just started […]

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विविध प्रकार की भाजी

Fwd: विविध प्रकार की भाजी : 1 post by 1 author. 📕 વિવિધ પ્રકારની ભાજી          ( વૈદ્ય શ્રી કે.જે.ઝાલા) ૯૯૨૪૩૪૪૧૨૧https://www.whatstools.com/d/chjtr_agibdgszje 4.02 MB, pdf (28 species)  

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INDIAN TREE- a tribute on Independence Day

INDIAN TREE- a tribute on Independence Day : 6 posts by 1 author. Wish you all happy Independence day A small composition INDIAN TREE This charming tree with tiny white flowers, Orange fruits is gorgeous like the Majestic Tricolours Many enjoy the comforts it gives abusing tiny problems But none afford to lose the tree […]

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Is there a Step -by-step procedure to identify a plant/tree ?

Is there a Step -by-step procedure to identify a plant/tree ? : 2 posts by 2 authors. I’m very interested in identification of common plants/trees in my city Bengaluru. I’d like to know if there is a step-by-step process to taxonomically identify or at least short-list a particular tree/plant (by arrangement of leaves, veination etc […]

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Shade tolerant Turf grasses

Shade tolerant Turf grass : 9 posts by 3 authors. What are the varieties of grass that can be grown as lawn grass in a shady area. About 60-70% shade tolerant? Are buffalo grass varieties available in our country and can they be grown in Indian weather ? Stenotaphrum secundatum (St. Augustine grass) is suitable […]

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When is sale/ export of wild orchids allowed ?

     Flower Show at Agri-Horti Society, Kolkata- 4 : 12 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1) Cattleya hybrid. This means that most of the cultivated orchids are hybrids. The orchid breeders of Kalimpong do not adopt this practice. They are exporting several species of orchids in bulk and each piece is fetching 10-20 USD […]

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My mobile is now my computer while on move

My mobile is now my computer while on move : 5 posts by 3 authors. Recently I have started using my mobile as a computer for all efi related work except for editing efi site. It is as fast as working on computer. Thanks to almost free data with high speeds of 4G and with […]

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Hoax message

Photo from Dalia Set : 8 posts by 6 authors. Attachments (1) The only picture I got. Can anyone id this flower which is claimed to be a rare one that blooms once in 50 years When and where was it clicked and by whom?  I think it is fungi cyathium.. Ficus tree never have […]

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Beware of this spam publishing house

Fwd: Chakrabarty T’s work at Tripura University : 2 posts by 2 authors. Beware of this spam publishing house please.  —– I am Kushal Mulleea from Lambert Academic Publishing. Our attention has been caught by your research «Reinstatement of four taxa synonymized under Breynia quadrangularis with proposal for a new subgenus Hemisauropus (Phyllanthaceae).». We would […]

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Plants seen at Champadevi, Nepal

Champadevi : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (1) plant names date Symplocos glomerata King ex C. B. Cl. 12 Nov 2016 / 6000 ft. Eurya cerasifolia (D. Don) Kobuski 12 Nov 2016 / 6000 ft. Aster ageratoides subsp. alato-petiolata Kitam. 12 Nov 2016 / 6000 ft. Craniotome furcata (Link) Kuntze 12 Nov 2016 / 5000 ft. Dinetus racemosus (Roxb.) Sweet […]

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Google storage

Fwd: Storage! : 2 posts by 2 authors. 15 GB capacity is going to be full in Gmail. Any solution for this ? You’re out of storage space and will soon be unable to send or receive emails until you free up space or purchase additional storage. Either you have delete old mails or buy more space. I […]

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Role of citizen science in conservation

Role of citizen science in conservation: : 3 posts by 3 authors. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00063207/208?sf84116954=1 Here is a new issue of Biological Conservation, talking about how information gathered from a database like ours can help in conservation. … can incorporate some of these in his presentation if he wants. Thanks …, certainly this will help….  

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Cactus Garden, Panchkula

Small Tree Chandigarh for Id : ……………………….. During my visit to Panchkula for lectures on EDUSAT, one evening i felt sad due to loneliness and I started walking along roadside after sometime by chance, I was in front of this cactus Garden, now I was mesmerized, rather than sad to see the beauty of the […]

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Please note and act smart

Please note and act smart : 2 posts by 2 authors. Please note this email and try to circulate. I feel, we shall share it (or such information on) ‘Indian Flora’ I would like to appeal everyone here… Dear botanist and plant loving friends, Kindly note that, due to our facebook postings in group or […]

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Trees of Bangalore

Trees of Bangalore: my site changed : I haven’t come to the group for a long time. After few months being down,  i finally moved my trees site from dropbox to Git. Since I have pasted lots of links from them in efloraofindia, if its useful for others they can use this link: https://ramanarunachalam.github.io/Flora-and-Fauna/trees.html One […]

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Identifying plants from a train window….

Fwd: Identifying plants from a train window…. : 3 posts by 2 authors. Earlier this week I was on the south coast of England lecturing about how to grow Himalayan alpines. To help pass the time on the train journey back to London I looked out of the very large windows the carriage I was travelling in had, […]

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Nandi Hills- wilderness around Bangalore

… wilderness around Bangalore : 3 posts by 2 authors. Wanted to know of nearest wilderness places around Bangalore (those which can be botanized in day’s trip). Nandi Hills would be a good option, in case you have not been there.   

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green city solutions

interesting idea worth imitating : 1 post by 1 author. english: http://greencitysolutions.de/english/ German http://greencitysolutions.de/stadt/ naturally there is much more information available in German.

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An online resource for the world’s plants

Plants of the World online portal : 5 posts by 3 authors. I came upon the following link which may be found helpful. http://wfo.kew.org Thanks … for information and the link. Once complete it should be real asset taking us back to versatility of Famous Index Kewensis. The amount of mistakes in The Plant List […]

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