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On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Muthu Karthick <nmk....@gmail.com> wrote:

> *
> Oh, sorry for the misidentification.
>
> Dendrophthoe falcata* of Loranthaceae?
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
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>> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
>> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
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>> 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
>>>
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