If not wrong, my plant could be same as Prashant's, on account of location. My plant found near Prabal Machi (Panvel side) ... Prashant's could be Matheran side.
Regards. On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Vijayasankar <[email protected]>wrote: > Tabish ji, i will verify the id once again. My id has reference to > the short calyx lobes. http://www.iaat.org.in/Rheedea19_53-57.pdf > M. glabra looks different from my plant as well as that of Prashant ji: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ncmls/4326249184/ ; > http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Dwarf%20Mussaenda.html > > Prashant ji's plants (beautiful pictures!) have longer calyx lobes and > pubescent corolla. So both are different species as you said. > > Dinesh ji, i understand that there are some 'climbing' (straggling) shrubs > in Mussaenda, for e.g. M. pubescens. Your plant looks like a straggling > shrub to me too. So this thread contains three different species i hope. [I > am unable to give a clearer picture as i dont have access to Indian Floras > at present]. > > With regards > > Vijayasankar > > > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:44 AM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Vijaysankar ji, the query because, had found similar species of * >> Mussaenda* at Prabal Machi (near Panvel, Maharashtra) ... 11JUL10 8:28AM >> Could see those white bracts on the canopy of a small tree (this tree was >> out of reach, so could not get nearer). >> >> A photo (very poor quality, attached) shows the sighting, leading me to >> wonder whether any Mussaenda "climbs". >> Climb may not be appropriate, nor straggle ... very loosely growing with >> sturdy support. >> >> The habitat is a slope, and it is possible that the *Mussaenda* plant >> could be rooted somewhere higher up on the ground, and may have sent its >> slender branches among the tree branches ... the apparent sight could have >> misled me. >> >> >> Regards. >> >> >> >> >> >> 11JUL10 8:28AM at Prabal Machi, near Panvel, Maharashtra >> >> >> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:42 AM, R. Vijayasankar < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> It was a shrub Dinesh ji, if i remember correctly. >>> >>> With regards >>> >>> Vijayasankar >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected] >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> Vijayasankar ji, does this plant have a climbing tendency ? >>>> Regards. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:15 AM, tanay bose <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> Thanks for sharing ... I appreciate the photography. >>>>> >>>>> Tanay >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:28 AM, R. Vijayasankar < >>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> *Mussaenda macrophylla*, the white bracts are attractive even from a >>>>>> distance in the forest. >>>>>> >>>>>> With regards >>>>>> >>>>>> Vijayasankar >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Tanay Bose >>>>> +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) >>>>> 9830439691(Mobile) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
