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I need to identify whether or not the attached figure is Azolla ( Water fern)?
18 April 2017 3,096 11 View
My friend's final year project is finding bioactive potential of liverworts and mosses. She is lacking of reference to complete her literature review. Can anyone help us to get access for the...
18 April 2017 2,641 6 View
A book of Uttarakhand or any district of Uttarakhand which has common trees with easy to identify keys, pictures for in field tree identification.
16 April 2017 5,787 8 View
I found new wild species of Nymphaea in Egypt. I registered it in our herbarium CAIM. The material of the new species was compared with herbaria specimens of Nymphaea in CAIM, and CAI. In...
14 April 2017 3,082 3 View
What is the best method to measure the LAI in climbing plants (creepers on trellis/cable)? If using Plant Canopy Analyser, which view cap is the best?
14 April 2017 5,205 3 View
the temperature of tectona grandis is high and plant diversity is low. why this happened? looking for relevant article. Thanks
11 April 2017 3,425 3 View
i want to regenerate the new plants from the mature soil Micro-tom plants, which have no fruits.
08 April 2017 376 42 View
How do they differ? dioecious, Monoecious, hemaphrodite and perfect flowers?
06 April 2017 10,125 8 View
In Hibiscus , the stalk of the flower is jointed. Lower part of this stalk is narrower than the upper part. When flower buds fall or after plucking of flowers, upper part of the stalk is...
05 April 2017 5,599 9 View
Please help me identify this Bamboo species
30 March 2017 8,313 3 View
The fruit is approximately 7-10 cm in diameter, woody, it seems to be schisocarp, but the carpels remain connected when they mature. I cannot find the plant family with such genus.
30 March 2017 4,556 21 View
Would any of my brethren from the researcher community throw some light on the procedures/ methods for preparation of herbaria specimens of members of the Order Zingiberales?
22 March 2017 3,197 7 View
Kindly validate this Lauraceae plant 3Neolitsea pallensH.P. in IndiaAltitude: 2200mHabit: medium sized tree
20 March 2017 4,822 6 View
I need an authenticated, bamboo plant sapling or atleast leaves samples of Bambusa ventricosa. It would be very helpful if cost also is provided.
17 March 2017 9,358 2 View
especially media made with coco peat.
16 March 2017 2,810 3 View
I am creating a database with the wood density information (at the family, genus, and species level) for 250 tropical plant species from wood-boring beetle (cerambycid) rearing projects. I want to...
15 March 2017 371 2 View
In taxonomy research articles, we could see spelling errors in some scientific names of species probably of typographical error or adopting the pioneer work etc., but what causes misrepresenting a...
15 March 2017 1,024 8 View
How to color the phloem and the xylem of the citrus stem for a microscopic observation. Thank you
14 March 2017 7,099 7 View
some literature stated that colonization rate of endophytic fungi varies in the thickness of the plant but the literature did not stated why colonization rate varies. does nutrient distribution,...
11 March 2017 677 7 View
One of my friend is working on this plant. Wild accesions of crocus sativus are there. however we want to increase its size for commercial exploitation.As reports on in vitro growth is quite less...
09 March 2017 8,317 3 View
I want to calculate leaf succulence, then the leaf area should be measured. However, for some plants( eg. succulent plants), their leaves are rod-shaped. And the usual method may not be suitable....
06 March 2017 7,480 4 View
Condensed tannins, stilbenes, flavonoids - which one of these (or other) substances causes the almost same color of the heartwood of pines, larch and Douglas fir? Most researchers seem to...
04 March 2017 1,914 3 View
This plant grows in my garden.
27 February 2017 7,312 3 View
The sex of most of the dioecious plants is not distinguished at the seedling stage. Since sexuality cannot be distinguished prior to floral initiation, identification of sex in pistachio at an...
26 February 2017 5,464 4 View