Surajit: *Adenanthera pavonina* L. tree flowers in march and seeds begin to appear in april.. last till may
there are street trees in 24 paraganas esp in and around the metropolis one or 2 nice ones in Dhakuria lakes, one by the ISKON temple in central calcutta (small park with a talab) and several in Elliot park... opposite the tata center... on Chowringhee road... several in the lanes surrounding the Birla mandir in Ballygunje... these are the ones I remember several as street trees in many neighborhoods .. no use going on a wild goose chase but they are everywhere, and the seeds sprout in wet humid (100% humidity days) in the debris under the trees... no allelopathy there.. the mother plant allows them to sprout out.. but I have not seen any really form a grove under or near the original tree.. i don't know why... may be the mali-s /gardeners do not let them.. we don't have cows roaming the streets or these parks that could possibly eat up the young plants... so I its a question... AND the wood is reddish... many mistakenly believe it to be red sandalwood, I have see the Dhakuria lake trees routinely mutilated... big branches are torn out... but its not red sandalwood... usha di On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 10:00 PM, surajit koley < [email protected]> wrote: > As Usha Di suggested this thread I remembered - > that about a couple of years a junior student found a few seeds on his way > to school. He collected not because he wanted to know the name of the tree, > in fact I was not at all interested in flora world, he collected because > those looked very attractive to him. There were 4 or 5 seeds and he gave me > all. I kept those in my home for reason unknown to even myself! A few days > ago I searched my room and found one of those *Adenanthera pavonina* L. > seeds. I am yet to see or record this tree. As I googled a little while ago > I came across another similar looking one - > http://itp.lucidcentral.org/id/fnw/key/FNW_Mimosoideae/Media/Html/fact_sheets/Prosopis_palmeri.htm > . > > Thank you > Regards > surajit > > -- Usha di =========== -- 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 an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
