Hi Neil ji, Its a fantastic shot. But, I guess from the pictures that the fruits belong to previous season, fallen from the infructescence and got stuck in the lower branch. There are two reasons for the guess: 1. the inflorescence is always single and terminal in this species, but the fruit hangs from a lower branch, and 2. new flowers of the current season are found at the top and no fruiting started yet.
Since the fruits are detached from the tree (due to some external force like heavy wind) before dehiscing completely, the seeds were not dispersed fully. So after the shower they started germinating within the (detached fruit). If this hypothesis is true, then it can not be called as vivipary (wherein germination of seeds occur when the fruits still remain attached to the mother plant, a genetic feature). Please correct me if i am wrong. With regards Vijayasankar On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Dr Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]>wrote: > This is interesting Mr. Neil, but unfortunately this is not an ideal > condition. Can you suggest, why a seed would like to be blown away ? > Just out of curiosity.... > Regards > Pankaj > >
