Hi All: I'm a kindergarten student of botany...
Having grown up in the Dadar Parsi Colony and 5 gardens area in Mumbai, I have had daily access to a veritable collection of trees- Kigelia Pinnata, Barringtonia acutangula, Swietenia Macrophylla and Mahogani, Tabebuia Megapotamica, Canon ball tree, Kleinhovia Hospita, Diospyros Peregrina, Berrya Cordifolia, to name a few.... A few years ago a Parsi gentleman made a little field booklet which took you along the avenues of that area and identified the trees as you walked along the specified route. Some trees have alas been lost since but many are still around. What a great gift to the area! It would be great if every neighbourhood would mark their green territory and record its botanical history for posterity. The purists may frown at the large number of exotic trees in our area but it is indeed the green heritage of the area just as colonial architecture is Mumbai's heritage.... Cheers, Alpa On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Pardeshi S. <[email protected]>wrote: > there are a few very good trees at Dadar Parsi colony, Mumbai. > recently i observed this plant being planted on a large scale as > avenue in new developing areas around Mumbai and at New mumbai. a few > plants are also present in Pune. one tree i have observed in Gondiya > district too. > strangely the inflorescence alwayz gets out of focus during > photography (has happened to me many times). > > Regards > Satish Pardeshi > > > On Jun 15, 7:39 pm, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nice big inflorescence. I remember I had seen them in IIT Madras campus > > which is a very good biodiversity area. > > Satish Phadke > > > > > On 14 June 2010 23:36, Padmini Raghavan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > The Kigelia africana is in full bloom all over Chennai. It is a > pleasure to > > > see the flowers strewn all under the trees in the mornings. > > > As it was cloudy, I managed to get one infloresence in situ. > > > The buds are also seen. > > > Padmini Raghavan. > > > > > -- > > > 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]> > <indiantreepix%2bunsubscr...@goog legroups.com> > > > . > > > 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.
