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Beware of phishing messages/ sites: Beware of phishing messages/ sites as they may be trying to steal your money. Somehow they are able to direct some efloraofindia links to their phishing sites, where they will try to get your personal information with the intention of stealing your money online. If any efloraofindia links lead you to […]

How to access recent publications ? : 12 posts by 2 authors. As our work get more and more finer, we need to access recent publications which we come across in net search, but unable to get their pdfs. Earlier I have tried this by becoming a member of Springer, I had a very good […]

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1. Slide presentations: First slide via Google Docs & 2nd via Google groups. 2. Write up for posting through Google Groups: Today Dinesh ji came up with the idea of using insert function (a blue square on left of link) to allow normal size images being posted from Group forum. It should be a big sigh of relief […]

Different ways of Re-sizing pictures; . Resizing images for posting in efi group in Photos: Recently I have been using Photos (Inbuilt in windows 10) for resizing very high res. images of upto 20 MB size. On selecting the highest 4 MP option in Resizing, large sized compressed images are created (to see the details for proper id […]

Procedure for corrections in the Efloraofindia Database:  Whenever & wherever, an individual member feels that identification in a particular thread is doubtful or incorrect; he can follow the following procedure for advising so a) Click on that particular link in the Efloraofindia Database or search for that particular mail (in his ‘Inbox’)/ thread (by visiting […]

    Code of conduct for members: 1. All the members are expected to behave with utmost caution while posting/ replying anything so that it doesn’t hurt anybody’s sentiment. Any deviation from such behaviour should be addressed to (moderators) & no reply/ altercation should be made on Efloraofindia. It is very important that all members […]

Important sites for Indian Flora (Alphabetically) :  . Efloraofindia website: https://efloraofindia.com/ . Efloraofindia e-group: http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix . Biotik: http://www.biotik.org/species_list_india.html . BSI Flora of India : Volume 1, 2, 3,4,5,12,13 & 23 has been put here with details of a total of 98 families Also a checklist is available for 275 out of 284 families (you can keep it […]

Garg, J. M., Dinesh Valke and Max Overton. “A User Driven Learning Environment in Botany.” Chapter under User-Driven Healthcare and Narrative Medicine: Utilizing Collaborative Social Networks and Technologies. IGI Global, 2011. 255-275. doi:10.4018/978-1-60960-097-6.ch019 Abstract– This chapter introduces the reader to a sample ‘User driven learning environment’ created in an online community with a special interest […]

It’s requested that members create his/ her profile on ‘Efloraofindia’ in case not already done so that everybody gets to know you. Here is the simple procedure how to do it: 1.       Visit home page at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix.  Sign in. 2.       Click on ‘Profile’ at right hand top. 3.       Click on ‘Edit’ in front of ‘My Profile’ […]

Efloraofindia (Earlier Indiantreepix) in BSI/ ZSI Task Force Report 4)  Collaborative knowledge generation A few years ago, John Maynard Smith, one of the most distinguished evolutionary biologists of twentieth century wrote an important book called the ‘Major Transitions in Evolution’. He proposed that the saga of life on earth may be visualized as involving a […]

Managing your gmails in a better way Dear members, This will help you in managing your Efloraofindia mails better by creating separate folders. Steps are given below: 1) Select any ‘Efloraofindia’ mail 2) Click: More actions 3) Click: Filter messages like these 4) It will automatically show: Has the words: list: () 5) Click: Next […]

Dear members, Members might be having lot of plant pics which may be identified but never appeared in the ‘efloraofindia’. Members are requested to post such pictures. There will be no restriction of format & number on postings for posting of identified plants. Brief Posting Guidelines & Detailed Posting Guidelines have been accordingly modified. These […]

Dear members, ‘Efloraofindia’ offers the following Mailing options: ‘Email – send each message as it arrives’ option or ‘No Email; read this group on the web’ option or ‘Abridged Email; send a summary of new activity each day’ option or ‘Digest Email; send all new messages in a single daily email’ option   For changing […]

Standing permission for using posted photos to FlowersofIndia website (www.flowersofindia.net)   Blanket standing permission from the following members have been received: Aarti S. Khale Ajinkya Gadave Anand Kumar Bhatt Anantanarayan Rajaram Balkar Singh Bhagyashri Ranade Bindu Kapadia C.Susanth Devi Nair Dinesh Valke Geeta Rane Gurcharan Singh Inderjeet Sethi J.M.Garg Kiran Srivastava K Mohan Raj Mani […]

Efloraofindia Blog; Please click on  http://indiantreepix.blogspot.com/ to see Efloraofindia blog being maintained by Dr. Satish Phadke.   Flora picture of the year 2011: I have already created the blog for the best images of 2011 sent by members of Efloraofindia.Only 3 entries received so far.http://efloraofindia.blogspot.com/ It will get updated as more entries start pouring. I am […]