... this is *Terminalia catappa* ... commonly known as: atafa, Barbados almond, bastard almond, Bengal almond, country almond, demarara almond, false kamani, Fijian almond, Indian almond, Java almond, Malabar almond, Malay almond, myrobalan, sea almond, Singapore almond, story tree, tavola nut, tropical almond, umbrella tree, West Indian almond, white bombway, wild almond • Bengali: badam • Hindi: बादाम badam, देसी बादाम desi-badam, जंगली बादाम jangli-badam • Kannada: taree • Marathi: बादाम badam, बंगाली बादाम bengali badam • Sanskrit: बाताम batam, ingudi, tailaphala • Tamil: இங்குதி inguti, nattu-vadam, saraparuppu, vatha-kottai • Telugu: బాదము badamu
About bellirica VS bellerica The basionym is Myrobalanus bellirica Gaertn. (Fruct. Sem. Pl. 2: 90, t. 97. 1791). Roxburgh transferred M. bellirica to Terminalia as "T. bellerica (Gaertn.) Roxb.". This spelling error is now widely used, causing confusion. The correct name is Terminalia bellirica (Gaertn.) Roxb. ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beleric Regards. On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 3:42 PM, rashida atthar <[email protected]>wrote: > > This beautiful Terminalia is flowering, Mumbai. Hope this is Terminalia > catapa. I do get confused between Terminalia bellerica ( some books spell > this as T. bellirica and some as T. bellerica) and Terminalia catapa. The > mature leaves turn red as informed in Trees of Mumbai, pg 79. Will be very > grateful to know if there is a scientific explanation for this phenomenon > which can be shared. Thank you. > > regards, > Rashida. > > > > > ------------------------------ > Get a 360o view of the world, in perspectives only MSN India can offer. Try > it! <http://in.msn.com/> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
