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Frangipani (Plemeria rubra) Did you know that Frangipani or Plemeria rubra and Plemeraalba, of the genus Plumeria, though a native of Mexico, is grown throughout the tropical and subtropical world, and has eight species in India commonly known as "Red Frangipani" and also as "White Frangipani"? Plumeria is native to Mexico and other regions of Central America and is known by its nine species of which Plumeria rubra, Plumeria alba, Plumeria obtusa, and Plumeria pudica are grown throughout the world now.  The common name “frangipani” comes from an Italian noble family, a sixteenth-century marquess, which invented a plumeria-scented perfume. The genus name honors Charles Plumier, who was a French monk of the Franciscan order, and a botanist. In India, Plumeria flowers are identified in its known 8 species, and have beautiful colours and fragrance, symbolising natural beauty. Popularly, it is called Frangipani; and as Pagoda tree; Temple tre...

Brachystelma tumakurense Did you know that Brachystelma tumakurense is a new plant, slender stemmed with a vivid display of colours in their flowers, discovered in 2017 by a group of Agricultural scientists in Devarayanadurga in Karnataka's Tumakuru district, and hence the suffix "tumakurense"? Brachystelma tumakurense, a new species, is a tuber derivative which belongs to the Apocynaceae family (a family of flowering plants) with the pollens similar to orchids, which was found in flowering while bearing leaves. It was discovered for the first time in 2017 in Devarayanadurga (a temple town and hill station) near Namda Chilume (700 m elevation), in Karnataka's Tumakuru district , and it has been rightly named after the district from where its type material was collected by agricultural scientists as ‘B. tumakurense’. The scientists who disocvered and anlysed this rare sample of plant were Gundappa B.V. from the Wildlife Aware Nature Club, Tu...

Jatila (Acorus calamus)  Did you know that Jatila, a herbal wild and cultivated plant, known by the scientific name Acorus calamus, distributed throught tropic and subtropics., especially in India and Sri Lanka, though it is native to Europe and North America? Jatila , a herbal plant, with the botanical name Acorus calamus, While its generic name is the Latin word 'acorus', its suffix is the specific name 'calamus'. It is also known by a variety of names, sweet flag, including cinnamon sedge, flag root, gladdon, myrtle, The herb is a perennial wetland monocot plant, which is distributed throught tropic and subtropics, particualrly in India and Sri Lanka, though it is native to Europe and North America. It is a hardy plant found growing from tropical to subtropical climates both in the wild and in recent years in cultivated conditions. The plant's parts used are leaves, root (rhizome) and stem. In Asia, Sweet flag has been used for ...

*Chapter 6 - Experiencing Infinity* *Day 26* In this world of death, one who sees in every living being, every creature, every element that which is the cause of it, who can recognise the cause is permeating.  That's why this famous saying, Hate the sin, not the sinner”. It is very commonly used everywhere. Hate the sin and love the sinner (laughter). That saying is all Upanishads. If you see a Bible many phrases in the Bible are very close to the Upanishads. But because it came through so many hands, translated into so many languages.  I think somewhere somethings are misinterpreted, but you will find this thread of the Upanishads in the Bible too. I am not a theologian. In all the scriptures of the world, example in Buddha's teachings.  Buddha has not spoken anything that is not in the Upanishads. He said the same thing that are in the Upanishads. Upanishads say everything is full, and Buddha said everything is empty. That was the language needed in that tim...