Dioscorea bulbifera : Air potato

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Satish Phadke

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Aug 6, 2011, 4:42:10 AM8/6/11
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This climber is present in large scales near Shedani Devrai Mulshi.
Some climbers were flowering as seen in the picture.
The young flowers are white whereas the mature ones turn purple pink.
The developing bulbils are also seen in Image 3544
Dr Phadke
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Neil Soares

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Aug 6, 2011, 6:58:23 AM8/6/11
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Hi,
  These are some more of mine. Have recently posted photographs of the bulbils, these have more to do with the flowers
                   Regards,
                    Neil Soares.

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Tanay Bose

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Aug 6, 2011, 1:26:23 PM8/6/11
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Nice catch from both of you
Thanks for sharing
Tanay
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Ushadi micromini

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Aug 7, 2011, 8:09:22 AM8/7/11
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Satish and Neil...Thank you both for showing these flowers...
now I want to grow this here in my yard!!!
will have to find a local village where we can find these bulbils...

Ushadi
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On Aug 6, 10:26 pm, Tanay Bose <tanaybos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nice catch from both of you
> Thanks for sharing
> Tanay
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Neil Soares <drneilsoa...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >   These are some more of mine. Have recently posted photographs of the
> > bulbils, these have more to do with the flowers
> >                    Regards,
> >                     Neil Soares.
>
> > --- On *Sat, 8/6/11, Satish Phadke <drsmpha...@gmail.com>* wrote:
>
> > From: Satish Phadke <drsmpha...@gmail.com>
> > Subject: [efloraofindia:76218] Dioscorea bulbifera : Air potato
> > To: "indiantreepix" <indian...@googlegroups.com>
> > Date: Saturday, August 6, 2011, 2:12 PM
>
> > This climber is present in large scales near Shedani Devrai Mulshi.
> > Some climbers were flowering as seen in the picture.
> > The young flowers are white whereas the mature ones turn purple pink.
> > The developing bulbils are also seen in Image 3544
> > Dr Phadke
>
> --
> *Tanay Bose*
> Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant.
> Department of Botany.
> University of British Columbia .
> 3529-6270 University Blvd.
> Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada)
> Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile)
>            604-822-2019 (Lab)
>            604-822-6089  (Fax)
> ta...@interchange.ubc.ca
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Muthu Karthick

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Aug 8, 2011, 3:01:47 AM8/8/11
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Nice illustrative pictures Sathishji...
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