Dear Viplav, Thank you for sharing these important images and for the really interesting historical info. about this plant in Bombay. I finally saw the flowers last evening, thanks for telling me about the fragrance too, it is mild but very pleasant.
I feel quite excited about this as I have got four Pisonia alba plants in my garden but in the last 12 years I have not seen them flower even once. Your post here is very significant ... good work! Regards and hope you have a great journey, Arundhati On 27 May 2013 23:20, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > > An uncommon instance of Pisonia alba in flower. It is a very popular > ornamental in Mumbai but is seldom seen flowering / fruiting. Clicked today > morning in a traffic island in South Mumbai. > > It is intriguing to note that G. Carstensen, the Danish superintendent of the > Victoria Gardens in Mumbai, remarked upon the distinctive appeal of this tree > way back in 1890. In a meeting of the Bombay Natural History Society on 3rd > December 1890, he gave a talk on the gardens of Bombay and had some > flattering things to say about this tree: > > "The most striking tree of our gardens is perhaps the Lettuce-tree (Pisonia > alba), which cannot fail to attract attention by the splendid effect of its > bright yellow foliage, nowhere I believe so perfectly developed as in > Bombay". - G. Carstensen, Bombay Gardens, p. 410, Journal of the Bombay > Natural History Society, Vol. V, 1890. > > Best wishes, Viplav > > -- > 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]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. > 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]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
