---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: M Swamy <[email protected]> Date: 24 June 2015 at 08:49 Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:223531] Acacia (Wattle) for ID :: May MK002 To: Muthu Karthick <[email protected]>, Tapas Chakrabarty < [email protected]>, "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]>
Thanks for sending photographs of this new Acacia species. Dr. Tapas ji' s efforts to get the plant ID is laudable. This has helped us to find out the proper ID. Thanks to Muthu ji and Tapas ji . On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Muthu Karthick <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Sir, > > Please find the attached high resolution files of the Acacia tree that I > have requested for identification. The tree is invasive in peninsular > India. > > Thank you. > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Tapas Chakrabarty <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Maslin, Bruce <[email protected]> >> Date: Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 7:09 AM >> Subject: RE: [efloraofindia:223531] Acacia (Wattle) for ID :: May MK002 >> To: Tapas Chakrabarty <[email protected]> >> >> >> Hi Tapas >> >> That specimen cannot be Acacia melanoxylon because the flowers are in >> axillary spikes (not heads in racemes) and the pods are wrong. >> >> As best I can tell your specimen is Acacia colei Maslin & L.A.J.Thomson >> var. colei. The pods and inflorescences look right. If I could see the >> phyllode nervature then I could confirm this identification. >> I have attached my description of this species. You can also see more >> information about it on the WorldWideWattle website at: >> http://www.worldwidewattle.com/speciesgallery/species-intro.php?id=17013. >> >> Acacia colei is a relative of Acacia holosericea (in previous years it >> was confused with A. holosericea). It is one of the species that in recent >> years has been trialled in many o/s countries for a variety if utilisation >> purposes; its seeds are used as a human food. Is it invasive in India? >> >> All the very best. >> >> Bruce. >> >> Bruce Maslin >> Senior Principal Research Scientist >> W.A. Herbarium >> Department of Environment and Conservation >> Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre,Western Australia 6983 >> Email: [email protected]. >> Tel: 08-92199133 (office direct); 0429 334051 (mobile). Fax: 08-93340327. >> >> Honorary Research Associate >> Singapore Botanic Gardens Herbarium (SING) >> 1 Cluny Road, Singapore 259569 >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: Tapas Chakrabarty [[email protected]] >> Sent: Tuesday, 23 June 2015 12:43 AM >> To: Maslin, Bruce >> Subject: Fwd: [efloraofindia:223531] Acacia (Wattle) for ID :: May MK002 >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Muthu Karthick <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> >> Date: Tue, May 12, 2015 at 1:09 PM >> Subject: [efloraofindia:223531] Acacia (Wattle) for ID :: May MK002 >> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]<mailto: >> [email protected]>> >> >> >> Dear all, >> >> Please help me to confirm if this is Acacia melanoxylon? >> >> Habitat: open scrub forest >> >> Date: 27 April 2015 >> Place: Kancheepuram dist., (Chennai outskirts) TN >> Alt.: 14 m asl >> >> >> >> -- >> 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]<mailto: >> [email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[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 2500 members & 2,25,000 messages on 18.6.15) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 11,000 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.
