Dear Gurcharan ji & Subrata ji, To me it doesn't look like Garcinia. As far as i know, Garcinia species generally have opposite, subfleshy and glabrous leaves. The leaf in the picture is alternate, chartaceous and hairy. So, i think it can't be Garcinia. It someway looks like Diospyros though not sure. More details required to id it.
With regards R. Vijayasankar On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > Subrata ji > All three are supposed to produce fruits. The mangostreen G. mangostana has > 6-8 cm diam fruits, dark purple when ripe with 5-8 seeds; The sour > mangosteen, G. xanthochymus has dark yellow fruit 5-8 cm in diam with 5 > seeds, where as Indian Gamboge tree G. morella has much smaller about 2 cm > across fruit with 4 seeds. The tree usually has numerous male flowers and a > few female and bisexual ones. Check for both types of flowers, essential for > seed set. The occurrence of single tree may be the problem. It is reported > that in many species of Garcinia young trees produce male flowers and old > trees female flowers, and as such presence of both young and old trees is > necessary for fruit set. You may please check this aspect. > > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > > > > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Subrata Mahapatra < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Thank you Dr. Singh for your illuminating note. One difficulty i face. >> Garcinia xanthochymus bears fruits (see attached photo) but this one does >> not as obseved by people in the Math. Regards >> May 14, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The name Tamala in Sanskrit is shared by two species Garcinia >>> xanthochymus Hook.f. (syn: G. tinctoria Dunn.) and G. morella Desr. They >>> also share Hindi name Tamal. Other names include: >>> >>> G. xanthochymus G. morella >>> Beng: Chalata, tamal Tamal >>> Mar: Jharambi, ota Tamal >>> Tel: Ivarumidi, tamalamu Pasupuvarne, >>> revalchinni >>> Tam: Kulavi, malaippachai, mukki, tamalam Makki, solaipulippuli >>> Kan: Devagarige, janagi Devagarige >>> Mal: Anavaya, Chigiri, >>> daramba, karukkampuli, pinnarpuli >>> Oriya:Cheoro, sitambu >>> Nepal:Chunyei >>> Assam: >>> Kuji-thekera >>> >>> Looking at the shape of leaves the plant to me it looks like G. >>> xanthochymus which has narrower but longer (15-25 cm long) thicker leaves as >>> compared to somewhat thinner but broader and shorter (8-12 cm long) leaves. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >>> Retired Associate Professor >>> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >>> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >>> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >>> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >>> Retired Associate Professor >>> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >>> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >>> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >>> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >>> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Subrata Mahapatra < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> About two years back we had long discussion on "Tamala". >>>> Ayurvedacharya Shibkali Bhattacharya says Tamala is Garcinia xanthochymus. >>>> English name is Sour Mangosteen which has come from Malayan word mangustan. >>>> The tree with its fruita and leaves were shown at that time. >>>> Recently we visited Belur Math. Swamiji brought one Tamala from >>>> Brindaban and planted it some 40 years back. It has grown about 20 ft tall. >>>> It flowes in spring; small yellowish white flower. It bears no fruit. I am >>>> attaching a part of a twig and a leaf. Kindly identify. >>>> Regards, >>>> Subrata Mahapatra >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "efloraofindia" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.
