Garg ji:please thank Shukla for her information.... for wonderful feedback and new information. Rudra palash I knew about (thanks for the link, would be handy in future), but did not know that parrots come to it, will surely try to plant a few in my neighborhood in south 24 paraganas that used to be habitat-ed by parrots , but no more, want to bring them back ... we need food they eat and tree with hollows where they can nest... so this will at least get us one more tree that they eat from I guess.
one question: what is Gang shalik? any other name? Usha di On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 3:40 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > 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'. > -- Usha di =========== --
