Excellent write-up & equally well supported with images! This is a host plant of Papilio polytes , common mormon butterfly ! May I format these images for IFB ? eager to see images of flowers. Thanks, Paresh
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Ushadi. > > On 23 Mar 2016, at 08:33, Ushadi Micromini <[email protected]> > wrote: > > they make chandan like paste and put on wounds > > usha di > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 8:44 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thank you Ushadi. I am not sure if locals put the prickles to any use but >> will ask around. How does one use Semul prickles to heal wounds? >> >> Regards, >> Ashwini >> >> On 21-Mar-2016, at 3:34 PM, Ushadi Micromini <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> wonderful write up >> >> do they have any special ethnic use for the thorns? >> >> (bengalis use the seemul trtee (Bombax ceiba) thorns in wound healing ) >> >> usha di >> >> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> Last Wednesday I drove down to the lower town of Dharamshala with a >>> friend to attend a local wedding feast. I stopped en route to photograph >>> apricot and semal blossoms (which I will share here in due course) when my >>> friend pointed me to a thorny shrub like tree. He said that it was called >>> *Tirmira* in the local dialect and its fruit was used in chutneys and >>> the wood in making pestles. Smaller twigs are also used as datun toothbrush >>> (like that of neem and keekar). Later I found out that a species belonging >>> to this genus gives the Szechuan Pepper. I am familiar with the Chinese >>> spice but am yet to taste the local variety. I will update when I lay my >>> hands on flower/fruit in season. It’s various culinary/medicinal uses are >>> listed here; >>> >>> http://www.stuartxchange.com/Chi-it.html >>> >>> Zanthoxylum armatum—Winged Prickly-Ash, Toothache Tree, *Tirmir, >>> Tirmira* >>> 25 February, 2016 >>> Dharamshala, HP, 1500m approximately >>> >>> >>> Please correct me if I am wrong. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> Ashwini >>> >>> <_MG_0970_25Feb2016.jpg> >>> <_MG_0997_25Feb2016.jpg> >>> >>> Winged compound leaves; >>> <_MG_0971_25Feb2016.jpg> >>> <_MG_0993_25Feb2016.jpg> >>> >>> Empty dry pods; >>> <_MG_0974_25Feb2016.jpg> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Usha di >> =========== >> >> > > > -- > 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 email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
