Muthu ji Balanophora as I know is a root parasite with rhizome, scale leaves and spadix inflorescence, at least one species I know B. involcrata looks like a red mushroom. In fact it resembles mushroom so much that it took us good time to identifify it as an angiosperm. In fact I had published a paper in Science Reporter in 1972: A Flowering mushroom? *Science Reporter*. *9*(5): 236-237. This plant to me looks like a mistletoe, may be a species of Dendrophthoe
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Muthu Karthick <nmk....@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear members, > Id this parasite please. Could this be *Balanophora* sp.? > Location: Satyamangalam forest plains > Date: 08 Dec 2009 > > -- > Muthu Karthick, N > Junior Research Fellow > Care Earth > Chennai > www.careearthtrust.org > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "indiantreepix" group. > To post to this group, send email to indiantree...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<indiantreepix%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to indiantree...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.