Please add place name in all your uploads: identified or for ID, both in subject line and text

[Gurcharan Singh]

Dear members

I have repeatedly been requesting to include the name of place in both subject line and in body text. This is essential for a country like India where you may be photographing a plant at sea level or 6000 m asl. The distribution of plants is intricately linked with climatic and attitudinal zonation, and as such it is a great help for both identification and confirmation of identification. For plants meant for ID a few important things are to be kept in mind and written as information.

1. Place, date (at least month) are essential. I think approximate altitude is very useful for diverse climatic conditions in India.

2. Habit and Habitat. cultivated/roadsides/wetplaces/dry slopes/forest, etc. Habit yes slightly difficult but with some effort it can be done. One can easily 

    write whether plant is soft (herbaceous) or woody. Woody plants with trunk are trees and those without trunk are shrubs. Climbers 

    (vines) can be known by every one. We have only to stress it to the members.

3. Plant height, length of basal and middle leaves, diameter of flower and size of fruit. These are essential because this can't be judged from photograph,

    but is very essential for identification. Additionally members can always focus some scale indicator in the photograph itself to help identification.

4. I think we have to develop the habit of including minimum 3-4 photographs in uploads and not just flower for proper representation and 

    identification. As I have been writing repeatedly if members take following photographs, the job of identification would be much easier:

    a) photograph showing a twig with leaves and flowers/fruits; b) close up of flower side view; c) close up of flower top view; and if 

    possible d) photograph of fruit.

5. With above minimum information and these 3 to 4 photographs, I think identification should be more convenient.  

Many members often cite the time constraint in not taking and uploading sufficient photographs. I assure you it is only a question of realizing the importance and developing the habit of taking multiple photographs. No one can perhaps know more than when we went on Chakrata trip. We managed more than 6000 photographs each within a span of 4 days, fighting tight schedule, rains, bad roads and all. With tight schedule we would often pluck one twig (for plants common in the area so as not to disturb the ecosystem) and take turns to photograph in the car. One has only to see the display of photographs by Balkar ji to realize the importance of multiple photographs.

LET US ALL CONTRIBUTE TO ENRICH OUR DATABASE AND MAKE THE JOB OF OUR EXPERTS EASIER BY PROVIDING ESSENTIAL INFORMATION AND UPLOADING MULTIPLE PHOTOGRAPHS AS SUGGESTED ABOVE.

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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/

[J.M. Garg]

Well said, Singh ji.

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With regards,
J.M.Garg (jmg...@gmail.com)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1

'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna'
The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image.

For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1740 members & 90,000 messages on 31/10/11) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 6000 species).

Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. 

[Ushadi micromini]

Gurcharanji:
exactly...

I totally and heartily agree...

USha di
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On Nov 25, 2:09 pm, "J.M. Garg" <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well said, Singh ji.
>

> J.M.Garg (jmga...@gmail.com)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1

> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna'

> The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* &

> eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged
> alphabetically & place-wise):http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them
> for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image.
> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora,

> please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group:http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix(more than 1740 members &
> 90,000 messages on 31/10/11) or Efloraofindia website:https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/(with a species database

[Balkar Singh]

Very Good Points Sir. With Digicams no fear of finishing of Film Rolls!!!!!

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Regards

Dr Balkar Singh
Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology
Arya P G College, Panipat
Haryana-132103
09416262964

[Gurcharan Singh]

Ankush ji

Please go through the posting guidelines. You have to re-size the photograph (to approx 600 x 800 pixels) before uploading. You may used any photoeditor to resize your photographs.

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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ 

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Ankush Prakash <ankush....@ymail.com> wrote:

 plz tell me how can i upload photos of plants ....and plz help me to identify this plant

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Subject: [efloraindia:96307] Re: Please add place name in all your uploads: identified or for ID, both in subject line and text