It appears like *Cycas revoluta* Thunb. <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/cl/cycadaceae/cycas/cycas-revoluta> (Cultivated) as per comparative images at Cycas <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/cl/cycadaceae/cycas>
On 9 January 2017 at 21:57, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Bimal ji, for the details. > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Bimal Sar kar" <[email protected]> > Date: 9 Jan 2017 8:43 p.m. > Subject: STORY OF A CYCAS ( 1964 VINTAGE ) > To: > Cc: > > Hello, > In the year 1972 I saw beautiful plant in a house at Cooch Behar, > which attracted me for its symmetrical arrangement of leaves. I did not > know the name of that plant at that time. In those days people used to > have gardens in their houses and there used to be open space in front of > each house. Those who knows about Cooch Behar the house I am referring to > is on B S Road. It is on the left side of the road as one approaches from > Madan Mohan Chopathi to Harish Pal Chowpathi. I left Cooch Behar in 1974 > but whenever I used to visit the place on leave I used to see this plant ( > now I know this to be a CYCAS ) still standing there. > I came back to this place in 2005 and the plant was still there. Recently > I saw some construction activities in that house I knew the days of my old > friend are numbered. I spoke to the owner of the house and came to know > that the tree was planted in 1964. He told me the it will be sacrificed. I > requested him to talk to the park authorities they may like to translocate > the tree. I am not hopeful. I took an image of the plant and uploading it. > I have seen some 100 trees vanishing whose images are with me in my > Symbiosis series, > Regards, > -- With regards, J.M.Garg 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. 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- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). 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. 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 https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
