I believe this to be *Ficus arnottiana* ... commonly known as Indian rock
fig, rock pipal, waved-leaved fig tree, wild pipal • Gujarati: ખડક પાયર
khadak payar • Hindi: bassari, palhi, पारस पिपल paras pipal, pilkhan, पिंपली
pimpli • Kannada: ಕಲ್ಲ ಅಶ್ವತ್ಥ kalla ashvattha • Malayalam: കല്ലരയാല്‍
kallarayal • Marathi: पायर payar, कडक पाईर kadak payer, पिपळी pipli •
Sanskrit: परीस parisah, प्लावक plavaka, प्लवंग plavanga • Tamil: கொடியரசு
kotiyarasu • Telugu: కల్లరావి kallaravi, కొండ రావి konda ravi


Regards.


On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Nudrat <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> There is a possibility that the plant in picture is F. religiosa. F.
> religiosa and F.arnotiana are very difficult to differentiate until
> the fruits are chkd. I can say this with confidence as i have worked
> on germination of these Ficus species. I had consulted Dr. M. R.
> Almeida and he told me that it was not easy to differentiate between
> the two unless the fruits are studied.
>
> On Oct 23, 8:04 am, Neil Soares <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Padmini,
> >   It is Ficus arnotiana locally called Pipran. Please check the archives
> of this group for our previous discussion on this.
> >                     With regards,
> >                       Neil Soares.
> >
> > --- On Fri, 10/23/09, Padmini Raghavan <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > From: Padmini Raghavan <[email protected]>
> > Subject: [indiantreepix:21327] Re: Which Ficus is this?
> > To: [email protected]
> > Date: Friday, October 23, 2009, 1:00 AM
> >
> > Resending with larger pic.(hopefully!)
> > PR.
> >
>  > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Padmini Raghavan <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > This is a sapling growing in the hills of Nagallapuram, which is about
> > > 100 kms from Chennai, just beyond the Andhra border.
> > > There were larger trees too, often growing in the clefts of rocks.
> > >  The red stalks of the leaves were distinctive.
> > > I did not notice any fruit.
> > > Please id it.
> > > Thanks,
> > > Padmini Raghavan.
> >
>

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