Dear Sir, this is very interesting. I can see why Couroupita has been suggested but I have some doubts because the leaves in the sculpture do not resemble leaves of that tree at all. They actually look more like Peepal leaves, (Ficus religiosa). At a stretch you could say they were kadamba leaves (Neolamarckia cadamba) and the circular thing being kadamba flowers with many petals. Perhaps the sculptor has taken an artistic licence and combined features of more than one species which he has seen.
regards Radha On Saturday, June 21, 2014 5:31:17 PM UTC+5:30, JM Garg wrote: > > Forwarding for Id assistance please. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Kirit Mankodi <[email protected] <javascript:>> > Date: 21 June 2014 15:23 > Subject: Photo of a Bharhut Tree > To: "[email protected] <javascript:>" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > Cc: Anna Pinto <[email protected] <javascript:>> > > > Dear Sir, > > I am writing to you after viewing your botanical photographs in Wikipedia. > > Can you identify this flowering tree from Bharhut in central India, > please? I will be much obliged. > > Thank you. > > K. Mankodi > > > <http://sigads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/click_nx.ads/www.rediffmail.com/signatureline.htm@Middle?> > > Get your own *FREE* website, *FREE* domain & *FREE* mobile app with > Company email. > *Know More >* > <http://track.rediff.com/click?url=___http://businessemail.rediff.com/email-ids-for-companies-with-less-than-50-employees?sc_cid=sign-1-10-13___&cmp=host&lnk=sign-1-10-13&nsrv1=host> > > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> > The whole world uses my Image Resource > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a > thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. > (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as > per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the > world- around 2350 members & 1,90,000 messages on 31/5/14) or Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 9500 species & 1,90,000 images). Winner of > Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. > > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > -- 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.
