Vijayaskankar Ji Long efforts have fruited now. Here is the success story published in Current Science:
http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/110/06/0976.pdf Regards. DSRawat Pantnagar On Thursday, January 6, 2011 at 11:10:46 AM UTC+5:30, Vijayasankar wrote: > > Thanks Aarti ji for sharing these pictures. I think i got the id, finally. > > It is nothing but the very famous 'double coconut' palm, *Lodoicea > maldivica*. > > There is a single female tree in India, growing in the Indian Botanical > Gardens in Kolkata. And the nearest male tree is in Sri Lanka (Peradenia > garden). The scientists in IBG said they have to get pollen from Sri Lanka > when flowers in both the trees are active. > And the pollen have to be dusted over the stigma before it looses its > receptivity. And the viability period of pollen needs to be considered, > too. The experts here are trying their best to get the tree pollinated and > get set fruits. This is the story in 2009 and i don't know the present > situation. > > I wish the scientists all success in their noble endeavors. > > Regards > > > Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D. > Post Doctoral Research Associate > National Center for Natural Products Research > Thad Cochran Research Center > University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 38677 > Phone: +1 662 915 1018 > > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:20 AM, Aarti S. Khale <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> At the same Peradeniya Gardens in Kandy, Sri Lanka. >> >> Aarti >> > > -- 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.
