Category: Miscellaneous

    Memory in plants’ cells: In Medicine we all know neurones have memories, and in immunology we know Lymphocytes have LOOOOONG ” memery but SLIME MOLDS? I had sort of heard about it but never seen it…Nat Geo has a page and story and even a 3d video…http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10/121008-brainless-slime-goo-spatial-memory-robot-slime-science-reid/    

      efloraofindia:”For Id 29052012MR2’’ 4 pollinators foraging Ocimum tenuiflorum at Pune: ……………….. Studies on pollinators are really interesting topic which Indians have been avoiding. There are so many endemic plants in India. Point is why they are endemic??? One of the reasons may be the limitation of pollinators. We should encourage people to […]

    Rarest Flowers of the world.: Thought this might be interesting.   10. Jade Vine – Strongylodon macrobotrys9. Corpse Flower – Rafflesia arnoldii8. Gibraltar Campion – Silene tomentosa7. Franklin Tree – Franklinia alatamaha6. Parrot’s Beak – Lotus berthelotii5. Chocolate Cosmos – Cosmos atrosanguineus4. Kokai – Kokai cookei3. Yellow and Purple Lady Slippers – Cypripedium […]

    is this the way to express love / infatuation ?: People, irrespective of their maturity or age, misuse plants :- 1) teenagers carve out their lovers name 2) grown up(s) nails signboard 3) bouquets are unnecessarily made huge 4) leafy twigs are unnecessarily used in bouquet (someone will say they are to enhance […]

    FloraIndia Community of Google+: If you are on Google+ we have Floraindia community there @ https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/105787408294306595087 Please do join the community and participate in the discussions.  

    Request for info on drought resistance of various species: I am a landscape designer trying to expand the range of drought resistant species grown in Los Angeles, California, United States, where I am located. Does anyone have experience of the following species tolerating extended dry periods, e. g., no watering during your dry […]

    Algae may be heterotrophic!: http://indianbotanists.blogspot.in/

    One of our many Orchid Sheds at KFBG: Sent from my iPhone Woww….great collection …!Are they hybrids? Or collected from wild and multiplied? This is a very small part :). Not all are hybrids. All are marked with tags so all have their history record maintained. We also have tissue culture lab, so […]

    Yesterday i was eating an orange and then: A very warm hello to everyone…Hope you all are fine…Yesterday i was eating an orange and then a question arose in my mind..I thought why all the oranges have same shape…Why all are spherical or rounded…Why not some of them are elongated like banana or […]

    Ancient plants back to life after 30,000 frozen years: Ancient plants back to life after 30,000 frozen years http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17100574 YesI read it in February , PNAS paper

    Quadrate sampling: Please let me know that which is the best quadrate method to survey grass lands for the herbs, shrub, tree etc. If anybody have more information about it please tell me. Your question is your answer. Quadrat method is the best. Use 1m x 1m quadrats. Firstly it is quadrat and […]

    mushrooms: yesterday I attended a mushroom-excursion. I shall send the fotos one by one, as soon as I get some time. We found many edible mushrooms. People here normally look for edible mushrooms, other mushrooms which are poisonous or not goodtasting, they just ignore, which means, one perhaps gets to know the names […]

    Propagation of important native tree species: Welcome to Ambika NurseryWho are we?We Ambika Nursery produce thousands of trees each year for reforestation and other plantings across Maharashtra. We’ve been in the tree business for over six years. Our first nursery established at Mangalwedha in 2006 and look forward to furnishing planting stock for […]

    Effective publication melbourne code chapter IV: plz find document regarding effective publication as attachment. this may be useful to us.      

    List of Plants for Afforestation……………: Please find an attachment of list of plant of afforestation.    

    Vernacular Names of Indian Plants: I came across eflora a little while ago, congratulation for the painstaking work. I admire it very much. In the meantime, I would like you all to visit http://www.patalkot.com/Herb%20Database/ I would be happy to have your critical feedback about it. Late Dr. G.L.Shaw and his students did good […]

    Orchids of Western Ghats : Website: I am sharing a website link, on Orchids of Western Ghats. I am sure this would be of useful to members having interest in captioned subject http://www.weatheredwind.org/owg/ If you know him then let him know that there are some mistakes. If he needs help then I can […]

    Edible weeds: Thought this was interesting: http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/weed-my-plate

    endangered medicinal plants of India: Have been looking for the endangered plants especially which are critically tndangered plants in India. found a state wise list of such plants on FRLHT website but that list does not correspond with the list of plants given on IUCN red data list. can anyone guide me as […]

    list of threatened plants of Maharashtra: I have the list of threatened plants of Maharashtra and in that there is no description of any trees in that. Anyone having such data, I would request to pls share. so where is the list? put it up here and we can find you the description […]