Category: Miscellaneous

    may i get indigenous plants scientific names, local names and their distribution plz :  basically i used to get big confusion while discussing about indigenous plants and their availability and conservation. Thanks, … & welcome to efloraofindia. We are working in that direction. Pl. see our efforts till now with pictures at efi links: /home […]

    Scientific Plant Names Dictionary: Scientific Plant Names Dictionary The dictionary file wacensus.dic contains 12,641 entries representing botanical names, at various taxonomic ranks for the native and naturalised flora occurring in Western Australia. Specifically, the names are derived across kingdoms (5), divisions (26), classes and subclasses (46), orders (118), families and subfamilies (816) and […]

    Monkeys-Plants: Is there any plant which monkeys dislike? OR doesn’t touch? or hates and never comes near of that plant? Just I want to know. because monkey’s use to spoil all plants. it never afraid of any plants or there is no plant which they doesn’t like. There are large number of wild […]

    Sad news from Matheran: There is healthy population of CHE (Changeable Hawk Eagles) at Matheran. In my last 6 months of continuous field trips in this hill station I could locate at least 3 pairs of them in stretch of C. 10 kms. and one nest , probably other nests are not located […]

    eFlora: the Future of Floristic Documentation: … has forwarded the message concerning the book “Plant Taxonomy, Past, Present and Future” edited by Dr. Rajni Gupta. This book contains a chapter by me “eFlora: the Future of Floristic Documentation”. I will share the relevant portions concerning our Group and Flowers of India after I […]

    Acanthaceae week: Eranthemum roseum: …………………………. What is Dashmularishta? Dasmularishta: is fermented/ alcohol containing extract (medicated wine / sort of ) made from a month’s fermentation of Guda/jaggery and extracts of Dahmuls…ten roots… plus 40+ other (some say 53) herbs…main are the Dashmula …roots of 1. Aswenna – Alysicarpus vaginalis, a one leaf clover, […]

    Citations, the Internet, and Wikipedia: How do people approach teaching students how to cite an internet source? If one is citing an on-line article with an authors and date, I don’t think there is much of a problem, however how does one deal with wikipedia? My thinking is that wikipedia shouldn’t be cited at all as […]

      Ink Illustration : Cerbera manghas: Continuing my effort of sharing my botanical illustrations, would like to share ink illustration for Cerbera manghas. Great art, fantastic effort and skill, ……………………. To answer your other question about the illustration, I have been illustrating for quite some time as a passion (no way linked to […]

    Hooghly Today : nostalgia: After a long time i see this and i cannot help but share it with you. In my childhood i tried to operate them also! I wonder if it was the same all over our country or people employed various method! Perhaps all over with its own variations. I […]

    Seed trading forums in India: Does anyone know of any seed exchange forum in India to trade seeds ? Can anyone in India trade seeds with any foreign gardener ? Is there any restriction in such exchange in India ? Any answer based on experience should be better.   Seed Exchange:  Hi Friends, Is […]

    Hooghly Today : Dieffenbachia ???: ………………….. ………………………….. PL480 is /was a bill passed by US Senate (upper house in our parlance) and signed into law by President Eisenhower… in 1954, as part of US govt given aid around the world, under the program FOOD for PEACE, read it in short at this wiki […]

    19 Ferns named for Lady Gaga :-): Some might be aware…..but I just thought of sharing this interesting story which you may find interesting. The most interesting thing with the genus Gaga are the DNA base pairs GAGA that distinguishes the genus from its allied ferns. 19 Ferns named for Lady Gaga   […]

    What’s there in the name?:   ‘If we do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost too’(Linnaeus, 1751). All wisdom begins by calling all living (including humans) and non living things by their proper names…..T.N.Khoshoo in his article in Current Science 1995. An interesting link related to the topic.http://www.plantapalm.com/wianame.htm […]

    ‘Oldest living thing on earth’ discovered: Oldest living thing on earth is obviously a plant but I was expecting some huge tree but check out what it is.http://diversityindianews.blogspot.com/2012/02/oldest-living-thing-on-earth-discovered.html Thanks for sharing the info. I do not agree that the oldest living thing could be a sea grass. It defies evolutionary principles. Let us […]

      intermountainbiota: I have just applied to join the eflora India group and explained that my primary interest is in enabling herbaria to share information. The web site that I mention there ( the address currently is http://usuherbarium.usu.edu/vpopen) is open to any herbarium although only one of those listed has contributed a record. […]

    Botanist or non-botanist: From last few days, I have started feeling the sense of inferiority. I wonder what is the reason adn where this sense would lead me to? This is beyond a doubt that I have generated a keen liking of flora from last couple of years. And day by day it […]

    Photo of Year 2012: Happy New Year 2013 to all. This is the time of year when we share Photo of the Year on all the DiversityIndia groups. So here is the call for posting the Photo of the Year. If you are not familiar what it is here are the guidelines. Photos […]

      in search of Green pasture: In one of my earlier post i mentioned about a killer chemical that mercilessly destroys every plant and related fauna. …………………………. that s Atish plant , isn’t it…why are they being sprayed?usually grown in gardens, hedges I thought … why would they or their surrounding be sprayed? […]

   english names please: I am working on a document which contains the invasive species of plants in and around forests and villages of Karnataka. I have the local kannada names, but I need the english equivalents to them. Could someone please help?? The names are Kalli, Gandhi mullu, chagate/ chogate, Puliguthi.  Please do let […]

    KYDIANA: A new blog site has been created by me under the guidance of Dr Datla C. S. Raju, and the same can be viewed at – http://robertkyd.blogspot.in/. I would be grateful to all of you to receive your valuable views and advice. Hope to see many such works from Raju sir and […]