Hi Dinesh, Great photographs!!! Just for your information - an easy way to differentiate Bauhinia malabarica from the other Bauhinias is to taste the leaves. They taste a bit like Imli [Tamarind]. Regards, Neil.
--- On Thu, 10/29/09, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> wrote: From: Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> Subject: [indiantreepix:21773] Bauhinia malabarica ♂ To: "Indian Tree Pix" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009, 12:54 AM Dear friends, Bauhinia malabarica, (syn. Piliostigma malabaricum) a deciduous tree, and dioecious. Not found commonly in Maharashtra ... I am attaching a few photos of the male plant. For more views: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Bauhiniamalabarica&w=91314344%40N00&m=tags Findings as follows: 10 OCT 09 -- Tungareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary 28 SEP 09 -- Saphale Ghat 30 SEP 07 -- Nagla block of Sanjay Gandhi National Park commonly known as: Malabar bauhinia • Assamese: kotra • Bengali: karmai • Garo: bakbakhol, beolphiu, migong thak • Hindi: अम्ली amli • Kannada: ಬಸವನಪಾದ basavanapaada • Konkani: कोरट korat • Malayalam: ആരമ്പുളി aarampuli • Marathi: अम्ली amli, कोरळ koral • Nepalese: टाँकी tanki • Oriya: gumbati • Sanskrit: अम्लपत्रः amlapatrah, अश्मन्तक ashmantaka, अश्मयुक्त ashmayukta, यमलपत्रः yamalapatrah • Tamil: மலையாத்தி malai-y-atti, புளியாத்தி puli-y-atti • Telugu: పులి చింత puli chinta Earlier misidentified it to be Bauhinia thonningii ... it appears in my response to Rashida ji's post "Bauhinia foveolata -- Chamoli" at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/b4230a4a8f471151?hl=en Many thanks to Ingalhalikar ji for correcting me. Regards. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
