A reply: "Thank you Usha di for your beautiful*Spathodea campanulata*. This plant you can also found inside the Salt Lake Stadium and Eastern Bypass and also on the road side of Hedua park-Scottish Church college area of North Calcutta. The flowers are quite similar in colour with *Butea* *monosperma* (Lam.) Taub. of Fabaceae ( *Palash*in Bengali). The most interesting thing is that Rabindranath Tagore renamed this flower as “*Rudra Palash*” in Bengali ( http://pathabhavanpraktoni.net/main/?p=2320). In Shantiniketan children called this “*Pichkiri**phul*” (pichkiri means spray) as they played *Holi*with this flower!! Many birds like Parrots, *Shalik*, *Gang* *Shalik* also passionate about this flower and they often visit this tree during its blooming. ****** Regards, **Sukla"**
On 8 January 2013 03:24, Ushadi Micromini <[email protected]> wrote: > *Spathodea campanulata * > > * * > > *These pictures are of a tree from a CIT Road Calcutta neighbourhood > school yard* > > *Originally from Central Africa, the African tulip tree was brought to > India in early 1900s . > * > > * > * > > *In Bengal it achieves great height and girth, flowers profusely and* > > * put up a spectacular show from January to about April, flowers remain > even > * > > *when the foliage develops fully. > * > > * > * > > *It is claimed that seedpods develop, but I have not seen any on trees I > track…. > * > > * > * > > *Seeds in Africa were said to be fermented to produce poison for hunting > arrows!!!* > > * > -- > Usha di > ===========* > > -- > > > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg 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 2030 members & 1,42,000 messages on 31/12/12) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 7500 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. --
