Thanks you so much Garg Ji, Bubai Ji ! 🙏 Yes it is matching with Ziziphus rugosa.
Characters matched as- Plant in attached picture is armed woody straggler is matching(Ref Flora of Guntur District: Andhra Pradesh, India <http://books.google.co.in/books?id=1kHNgLyXbJUC&pg=PA98&dq=Ziziphus+xylopyrus&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6uTPUfvCJ4btrQflxoGoAQ&ved=0CD8Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Ziziphus%20xylopyrus&f=false> ). As per 'Jungle trees of Central India', when it find nothing nearby to latch on to, it grows its own solid trunk and become tree like. But it never gives up climbing habit and every flowering season produces long, exploratory grappling-hooks studded with wickedly curved spines to see if it can find something nearby to climb on to. Serrulate margin of leaves is matching(Ref Flora of Guntur District: Andhra Pradesh, India <http://books.google.co.in/books?id=1kHNgLyXbJUC&pg=PA98&dq=Ziziphus+xylopyrus&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6uTPUfvCJ4btrQflxoGoAQ&ved=0CD8Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Ziziphus%20xylopyrus&f=false> ). Leaves are oval with rotund, blunt or mucronate apex is matching (Ref 'Jungle trees of Central India', Flora of Eastern Ghats: Hill Ranges of South East India, Volume 1 <http://books.google.co.in/books?id=pSXidQZupHYC&pg=PA278&dq=Ziziphus+glabrata+%2B+india&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VOnPUdLHGYOYrAeS3ICoAQ&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Ziziphus%20glabrata%20%2B%20india&f=false> ) . Leaves has 3 long basal nerves + 2 weaker nerves is matching(Ref 'Jungle trees of Central India' ). Leaf base cordate matching(Ref 'Jungle trees of Central India', Flora of Eastern Ghats: Hill Ranges of South East India, Volume 1 <http://books.google.co.in/books?id=pSXidQZupHYC&pg=PA278&dq=Ziziphus+glabrata+%2B+india&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VOnPUdLHGYOYrAeS3ICoAQ&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Ziziphus%20glabrata%20%2B%20india&f=false> ) Hairy stalk of leaf matching(Ref 'Jungle trees of Central India' ). Spines covered with velvet like stag's antlers is matching(Ref 'Jungle trees of Central India' ). Branchlets rusty colour and tomentose is matching(Ref Flora of Guntur District: Andhra Pradesh, India <http://books.google.co.in/books?id=1kHNgLyXbJUC&pg=PA98&dq=Ziziphus+xylopyrus&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6uTPUfvCJ4btrQflxoGoAQ&ved=0CD8Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Ziziphus%20xylopyrus&f=false> ). Habitat: wild vegetation on slope is matching. Plant in attached pictures are growing on steep slope. Thanks Sharmila On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 5:04 PM J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > I think close to images at Ziziphus rugosa > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/r/rhamnaceae/ziziphus/ziziphus-rugosa> > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Sharmila Punde <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 at 18:09 > Subject: [efloraofindia:314776] Similar to Smilax Sp Liana-Matheran > To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> > > > Dear All, > Please help identify liana with erect branches in the attached > pictures. > Location: Matheran > Date: Mid Dec 2018 > Any tendril not found. Two spines, one of them is curved, at the base of > petiole, like that of Ziziphus species. > Thanks > Sharmila > > -- > 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. > > > -- > 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- more than 2975 members & 3,00,000 messages on 25.7.18) or Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 12,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which 1,00,000 > are directly displayed). > > 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.
