Hello Raghu ji This mail has revived lost memories!This was a
childhood [& teen-age years too! ] favourite when we lived in Bihar.We
called the berries 'kulpakka' in Hindi-or it could have been the
Bihari equivalent ?-and 'borums in schoolgirl English.Nice to see
this after a long,long time:)
Thanks!!
Ranjini Kamath
On 2/17/10, raghu ananth <[email protected]> wrote:
> Zizyphus jujuba
> Fam: Rhamnaceae
> English: Indian jujube, Indian Plum, Indian Cherry
> Hindi: Ber
> Sanskrit: Badri
> Kannada: Elachi, Elache, Echhi, Bor`e (?)
> Tamil: Elanthai Pazham
> Telugu: regu pandu or rekkayalu
>
> Of stolen plums and hard
> beatings!
>
> It’s been decades since I came across the Indian plum tree. And
> after I became a member of Indiatree pix group, I was eager to share
> pictures of this tree. But, Sadly, like many other trees, this tree has
> almost vanished from my town for
> some time now. Very few trees are found even in the nearby villages
> surrounding
> my town. Thanks mainly to the tobacco growers and tree cutting contractors
> for they spare no trees.
>
> Some trees revive forgotten memories of school days. For instance during
> intervals/after school,we used to
> get attracted by the ripe (red colored) or even partially ripe (green)
> fruits sold
> mostly by old women from villages . These women collect fruits in the
> morning, spread
> them on a gunny bag, sitting under a shady tree along the road to schools.
> Then they sell it to school children after sprinkling on them a mixture of
> salt
> and chilly powder. Every one relished this fruit - a mouth watering taste
> indeed.
>
> However, rather than spend money to taste these yum berries, it
> was more fun when we expended our energies to be able to get our hands on
> them.
> It proved to be a favourite pastime of ours as well. The backyards of the
> houses of the road adjoining ours boasted many of these trees. Sundays and
> other holidays (we had to cut or make a way through the tall and thick milk
> hedges to reach the plum tree) were spent under this tree, throwing stones
> or shaking the tree
> branches and collecting the fallen fruits. Sometimes, the owner of the tree
> would materialize silently from some place and then try to catch one of us
> and
> give a sound thrashing courtesy the branch/twig of a small tree. The stones
> we
> threw would sometimes damage the thatched roofs.
>
>
> /*
> On increasing wood demands tobacco demands
>
> During my birding & tree sighting trips, I sometime try to know &
> photograph old and heritage trees. Soon, I find it tough to sight trees and
> realize there are hardly any trees which are more than 20 years old, other
> than those found near temples, railway stations, various government premises
> and exclusive farms. Thanks to the tobacco growers and contractors for they
> spare no trees. They buy trees from farmers, growing anywhere in the open
> fields, farms, canal, river edges, schools and even the road side trees. The
> wood logs are later taken to be burnt in kilns to dry tobacco leaves.
> With international demand for the locally grown tobacco (FCV – Flue cured
> Virginia, Mysore tobacco) leaves increasing and prices soaring from Rs.
> 48/kg (year 2006) to Rs 95/- (year 2008) and upto Rs. 150/kg this year,
> there is less chance for the trees to inhabit the earth.
> It’s a known fact that once tobacco plants are grown in agricultural fields
> for couple of years, the land loses its ability to grow other crops.
>
> Sometimes I wonder as if the native trees have lost their rights to
> completing their full life span thanks again to the meddling of human
> beings. )
>
> */
>
> Date/Time-12 Feb 2009
> Location- Place, Altitude, GPS- Chandagal Village, Krishnaraja nagar, Mysore
> district, Karnataka
> Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type- Planted along farm fence of arecanut /
> Banana/Coconut plantations.
> Plant Habit- Tree/ Shrub/ Climber/ Herb- Tall Tree
> Height/Length-Quite tall, Around 50 feet
> Leaves Type/ Shape/ Size- xx/round, small size
> Inflorescence Type/ Size-
> Flowers Size/ Colour/ Calyx/ Bracts-No flowers found now, wait till April.
> Fruits Type/ Shape/ Size Seeds- Eatable,tasty, Round, <3cm
> Other Information like Fragrance, Pollinator, Uses etc.-Sweet attractive
> fragrance, many small birds were found singing in this tree.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujube
> http://www.kamalascorner.com/2008/12/indian-jujube-elanthai-pazham.html
>
> efloraindia database: To be added.
>
>
> Regards
> Raghu
>
>
>
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