Ihad seen two different Pachira trees few years back in Dec in Kolkata Bot. Garden. I believed the name boards there to be correct. Therefore I had posted both the plants on the group accordingly. There appears to be a lot of confusion in names of different Pachiras. I found an interesting discussion with photographs on the website Botany photo of the day.<http://www.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/potd/2010/01/pachira_aquatica_and_pachira_glabra.php> Copying some relevant things below.
In "Brazilian fruits and cultivated exotics" ( Harri Lorenzi, Luis Bacher and others) from the Instituto Plantarum, they clearly dichotomize these into white flower, green pod = Bombacopsis glabra, syn. Pachira glabra and red flower, brown pod = Pachira aquatica, syn. Bombax aquaticum, B. macrocarpum, B. rigidifolium, Carolinea macrocarpa and Pachira pustilifera. Now I think the labels of my plants posted may be wrong. Interesting and confusing too................................ Dr Satish Phadke On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Aarti S. Khale <[email protected]>wrote: > Sandhya ji, > Thanks for appreciation. > Regards, > Aarti > > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 9:38 AM, harithasandhya > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> Beautiful pictures. Never seen the tree. >> Thank you for sharing Aarti ji. >> Regards, >> Sandhya >> >>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> --- >>>> >>>> >>> > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
