Id please

[Smita Raskar]

Hello friends 

can anyone identify this herb?

this was growing on slopes of hills 

when moved sporophylls produced clouds of spore as seen in pic

Picture taken at West Bengal on July 2022

Thanks

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Smita Raskar

308 Disha Residency,
Salaiwada,Sawantwadi 

Mob.09422379568 

[Madhusudhan Khanal]

Kindly check once with Lycopodium clavatum. Thank you

Regards,

Madhusudhan Khanal 

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[Smita Raskar]

Thank you!!

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[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Smita ji

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From: Chris Fraser-Jenkins <>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug, 2022, 7:12 pm
Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:429584] Id please
To: J.M. Garg <jmg...@gmail.com>, smita....@gmail.com <smita....@gmail.com>

Lycopodium japonicum,  common clubmoss.

If you sprinkle the spores over a flame they spark in the air as the internal oil burns.

They used to be collected to use as yellow powder during Holi, now replaced by yellow aniline dyed powder - which is mildly carcinogenic, like so many of our modern chemicals. [mind you, spores of Pteridium revolutum, Bracken, are carcinogenic, too, so it's not only modern unnatural chemicals!].

As I expect you have seen, the plant is traditionally used to adorn wedding gates at marriage-parties - and even the army use it on their barbed-wire fences - which is not sustainable and ought to be stopped.  I have seen people gathering great sacks of it for sale as an adornment.  It can't be cultivated as it always dies once uprooted, wrong mycorrhiza...

Best wishes,

Chris Fraser-Jenkins, Portugal.

[Smita Raskar]

Thanks for Id & information Chris

Regards 

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