Dear Rashida Ji, Since when is Silk cotton (*Bombax ceiba) *called as *Salmalia rubra? *Is there a formal note on this? If yes, can you pls share? Thank you.
With kind regards, ramjee On Thursday, February 24, 2011 6:54:41 PM UTC+5:30, Rashida Atthar wrote: > > Thanks for the nice pictures Manoj ji. Would like to add that these > differences in colour is due to pollinator difference. The white ones would > be most probably bat pollinated ! Also would like to inform that Bombax > ceiba is now Salmalia rubra, would not know what the variation in white is > called though! > > regards, > Rashida. > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Satish Phadke > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Oh That's amazing. >> We commonly observe *Bombax ceiba* in Red colour flowers. >> We had recently seen yellow coloured* Bombax ceiba* posted by Pravin ji >> and now you have shown here the white flowered variety of *Bombax ceiba.* >> Thanks for sharing. >> The conventional; so called safed Sawar; is a different species *Ceiba >> pentandra* from the same family which has been discussed on the group >> several times. >> Regards >> Dr Phadke >> >> On 24 February 2011 09:13, manoj <[email protected] <javascript:>>wrote: >> >>> is this safed saawar ? >>> >> >> > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
