have a look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_species Regards Nalini ----- Original Message ----- From: Padmini Raghavan To: Yazdy Palia Cc: Rakesh Biswas ; indiantreepix Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 7:36 PM Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:39580] A query on ficus species
I have heard that the Jamaican Cherry, Muntingia calabura , is a pioneer species. What exactly does that mean? Does it help in starting growth of a forest or is it merely helpful to birds, butterflies and insects? Please clarify. Thanks, Padmini Raghavn On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Yazdy Palia <[email protected]> wrote: Dear Rakesh Biswas Ji First of all, you must know why you wish to plant these large trees. If it is only for shade, it is very good you need not bother about planting anything underneath it. However if you wish to have both, you could do a bit of shade regulation by lopping the branches that are spreading too much to the periphery. If however, you wish to have both, then you could chose the large trees like silver oak which does not give too much of shade and you could plant anything underneath it. You could even try for Jacaranda, which while in blossom looks great and the shade is not very heavy. Even ficus, could be grown one precaution that you could take at the growing stage is to remove the branches up to 20'. Let them grow sumptuously over 20' height. Then the inhibition of growth of other plants will not be a major problem. Regards Yazdy. On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Rakesh Biswas <[email protected]> wrote: > Do ficus species have allelopathic properties (inhibit growth of others > saplings and seedlings under/around them)? > > Does one need to keep this in mind while planting species like ficus > virens/infectoria? > > Would be grateful for advice around this. > > regards, > > rakesh > > -- > 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. > -- 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. -- 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. -- 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.
