Your posts give wonderful story write ups. Thanks, Viplav ji. On 19 April 2015 at 10:41, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Sharing some photographs of the buds and the flowers of *Morinda coreia* > var. *tomentosa*. The flowers are usually 5-merous; have also attached > some instances of variable merosity in the flowers of this tree (4-merous & > 6-merous). The corolla tube is glabrous on the inside and hairy on the > outer surface as seen in the last picture. > > This tree is often referred to as *Morinda pubescens* Sm. The genus > *Morinda* in Mumbai was revised by RR Fernandez who published a new > combination - *Morinda coreia* Buch.-Ham. var. *tomentosa* (Hook.f.) > R.R.Fernandez. Have attached the key by Fernandez from his book 'Trees of > Mumbai (Bombay)', pp. 173-174, Scientific Publishers, 1999. > > In Cooke's Flora, the anthers are said to be included within the corolla > tube as depicted in Navendu ji's photographs on flowersofindia.net > <http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Indian%20Mulberry.html>. > But the anthers are clearly exserted in the trees that I have come across > in Madh. In the eflora archives, I found some photographs of the flowers of > *M. > pubescens* bearing exserted stamens & anthers (posted by Mohina ji fr. > Alibag > <https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/indiantreepix/qtNY1MByXak> > & Dinesh ji fr. SGNP in Mumbai > <https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topicsearchin/indiantreepix/Morinda$20AND$20pubescens$20AND$20Sm./indiantreepix/mOj5Q4dogw8>). > The flower image of *M. pubescens* in 'The Trees of Mumbai' by M. Almeida > & N. Chaturvedi (p. 20) as well as in Shrikant ji's 'Trees of Pune' (p. 98) > also depicts exserted anthers. Would appreciate any information / comments > on this. > > Am sending the photographs of the leaves, fruit, and bark in separate > emails. > > Photographed on Madh Hill (North Mumbai) in March 2015. > > Best wishes, Viplav > > -- > 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. > -- 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- more than 2400 members & 2,00,000 messages on 9.9.14) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 10,000 species & 2,00,000 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 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.
