nice catch Rashida ji quite a detailed picture Tanay On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Rashida Atthar <[email protected]>wrote:
> Thank you Sir, seems quite widespread. > > regards. > Rashida. > > On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Thanks Rashida ji for showing us another species of Dillenia >> Seems to be widely distributed, as following common names indicate >> >> Hindi: Agai, Kallai >> Beng: Karkotta >> Mar: Karmal >> Tel: Chinakalinga, Ravudana >> Tam: Nayetekku >> Kan: Kanigala, Kadikanigala >> Mal: Punna, Kodapunna >> Oryiya: Rai >> Assam: Akshi >> Nepal: Tatri >> Trade: Dillenia >> >> >> -- >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Retired Associate Professor >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Rashida Atthar >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Here's the Dillenia pentagyna fruiting seen today at the southern end of >>> the national park in Mumbai. We hardly ever get to see the flowering of this >>> tree which lasts just a few days. As per 'Trees of Mumbai' book -The >>> scientific name Dillenia was given by Linnaeus in honour of Johann >>> Dillenius, a German Physician and professor of Botany at Oxford (1734). The >>> ovary has five chambers, hence the specific name pentagyna. It is one of the >>> most primitive amongst flowering plants existing today. >>> >>> regards, >>> Rashida. >>> >> >> >> >> > -- Tanay Bose +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) 9830439691(Mobile)
