This should be a member of Meliaceae only. There are two species in Mahagony group, Swietenia mahagony and *S. macrophylla* planted in India (not occur in wild here). The fruit may belong to the latter species, if not matching to the former one. http://www.arkive.org/media/8B/8B80EAD3-D342-458A-A125-3DE01E8354B8/Presentation.Large/photo.jpg
Pl check this link for S. macrophylla, too http://botany.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/dcs420/cr/hdw160399es.jpg Also pl check it for *Soymida febrifuga*. With regards R. Vijayasankar On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:20 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding for Id assistance please. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Dr. M. K. Pathak <[email protected]> > Date: 16 June 2010 12:38 > Subject: Dehsicent capsule for identification > To: "Dr. J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Dr. Gurcharan Singh" <[email protected]> > > > Recently I have received a capsule (dehisced) for identification. > Only a brief information is available regarding this as, > Place of Collection North Bengal. Collected by locals and sold locally for > ornamental purpose. > Relevant information: does not match with the pods of *Mahogni* or * > Bombax.* > Pl. help me in this regard > Mithilesh K. Pathak > > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg ([email protected]) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > Image Resource of more than a thousand species of Birds, Butterflies, > Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg > For learning about Indian Flora, visit/ join Google e-group- Efloraofindia: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix > > -- > 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.
