Dear Usha: What a lovely write up of heart felt experience... Your story of the purple allamanda sounds very familiar, that's how I have stumbled onto many diagnosis my self... often suddenly, serendipity I think...
Have a wonderful walk.... walks... could you show us /me some of your tree pictures from these walks? usha di On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Usha Desai <[email protected]> wrote: > Friends > Colaba Woods is very close to my heart for it was here that in 1993,I > started my discovery of trees.I have many interesting memories....One day I > was standing on a bench to see the few flowers of Shirish[*Albizzia > lebbeck*],when a young man brought me down on the ground & said at your > age you should not be doing this, what if you fall down.He immediately > stood up on the bench and got the flowers & said"Are you a botanist?" "No > I love trees....and you have a beautiful garden...there are pathways of > Amaltas,Gulmor,Kachnar,Pitchkari,Scarlet cordia....and you have groves of > Saptparni,Sita Ashok,Karmal,Kanakchampa,Kadam...He just stopped me & > said-mam,I am Yadav,descendent of Krishna and I have been coming here for > two years and never knew Kadam exists here...Please show me.... > Just at the entrance of the woods on either side there are scandent > climbers with purple trumpet flowers,shiny green leaves and Rajsthani * > muchhi* like pods....for 12 years I did not know what it was..a friend of > mine from Goa said it is Purple Allamanda,I was so elated,went through the > Allamand genus but nothing matched. Then few years ago indiatreepix Google > group came up and we put up the pictures and wow,it was diagnosed by > Dr.Neil as Cryptostegia grandiflora..The Palay Rubber Vine..Incidentally it > has many common names,including Purple Allamanda > Koelreuteria elegans was identified by Renee through Pradip Krishen's book > and flowersofindia.net > Bilimbi by Dr Sheila for it is a common tree from Goa and she is from Goa > Litchi by one of the walkers when she saw me daily standing in front of > the tree and trying to find floowers and fruits...one day she just tapped > my shoulder and said that is Litchi,I am from up north so I know it > well,and do not search for fruits..it does not fruit here..may be the > weather..... > So friends if you want to hear more stories do join us on Sunday 2nd June > at Colaba Woods,Cuffe Prade next to Hotel President > > -- > 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. > > > -- Usha di =========== -- 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.
