Dear Sir, I am sending you the link to an image of Couroupita leaves for your reference.
http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/2006/09/13/jnana/424353.jpg look forward to your feedback. regards Radha On 26/06/2014, Kirit Mankodi <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Madam, > > Thank you for your mail. I have just forwarded to you my earlier mail tsent > o Dr. Vijayasankar. I had my doubt about the leaves, of which there is a > profusion, while Couroupita photographs I saw do not have any leaves. > But Kadamba should be eliminated, because the Kadamba flower does not look > like this sculpture. Two thousand years ago flowering trees were present > before the eyes of the sculptors and they would not have taken the liberty > of combining two species, I think. Among the Bharhut sculptures five or six > species of trees are represented under which female figures stand, and all > are faithful renderings, both foliage and flowers. > So, please keep thinking; I will be eager for your feedback. > > > Best regards. > > > K. Mankodi > > > From: radha veach [email protected] Sent: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 21:44:59 To: > [email protected]: [email protected]: Re: Photo > of a Bharhut Tree > 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.regardsRadhaOn > Saturday, June 21, 2014 5:31:17 PM UTC+5:30, JM Garg wrote: > > > Forwardingfor Id assistance please. > ---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Kirit Mankodi > <[email protected]>Date: 21 June 2014 15:23Subject: Photo of a > Bharhut TreeTo: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>Cc: Anna Pinto > <[email protected]> > Dear Sir, > > I am writing to you after viewing your botanical photographs in Wikipedia. > > Can you identifythis flowering tree from Bharhut in central India, please? I > will be much obliged. > > Thank you. > > K. Mankodi > > > > > Get your own FREE website, FREE domain & FREE mobile app with Company > email. > Know More > > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna'The whole world uses my > Image Resource 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 (largest in the > world- around 2350 members & 1,90,000 messages on 31/5/14) or > Efloraofindia website (with a species database of more than 9500 species > & 1,90,000 images). > 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.
