Hi Raghu, Great story !!! Your tree is undoubtly a Ficus species but from the silhoutte and leaves it does not look like a Banyan tree. Also none of the major branches have any prop roots. Regards, Neil.
--- On Tue, 8/24/10, raghu ananth <[email protected]> wrote: From: raghu ananth <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:45364] I had a dream…saw a Bargad tree… To: "Pankaj Kumar" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2010, 9:44 PM Praveen ji, Pls find some photographs of the leaves of the same tree, taken from afar on quite a bright sunny day. In fact my camera focus was not functioning and most of the the photographs were taken in lowlight and by fluke. Photo date: 21 Jul 2010 Miao, Arunachal Pradesh -Thanks Raghu From: Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> To: raghu ananth <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 24 August, 2010 8:25:02 PM Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:45356] I had a dream…saw a Bargad tree… I wish, I could see the leaves... Pankaj On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:06 PM, raghu ananth <[email protected]> wrote: > I had a dream…saw a Bargad tree… (sound almost like Karen Blixen…I had a > farm in Africa!) > > While traveling to M’Penn nallah in Miao in Arunachal Pradesh, I saw a tree > so big it dwarfed almost everything in its vicinity – a truly handsome > specimen. I managed to click a few pictures of the tree from afar and when I > asked my guide the identity of the tree, he said that it was the Bargad > tree. Ah! a new one I thought to myself. The trunk of the tree was tall and > the branches grew about 60-80 feet from the ground. > > > > The challenge has always been to remember names of trees. So I tried to > memorize the name, repeating it aloud in the hope that I would remember the > name. But when back in Chennai, I pressed the ‘replay’ button, no name came > to me. I persisted but nothing happened. > > > > And then two weeks later, strange as it may seem, I was in a deep slumber > when this giant tree appeared in my dream and I could recall its name then – > Bargad. I was elated. And then I woke up and realized it was a dream after > all. Possibly, it had been playing in my subconscious all along and had been > transmitted through a dream. I felt odd because it had been ages since I had > got a dream when fast asleep. Most of the times, I tend to day dream, quite > conscious of what is happening around me. The sad part is even though I had > remembered the name of the tree in that dream the moment I woke up in the > morning poof….I could not remember the tree’s name. > > > > Again two days after the dream, I searched eflora database for the names of > big trees and found the common Banyan which also had another name in Hindi– > Bargad. It was the same mentioned by my Miao guide. All the confusion > because I did not know the Hindi name of the Banyan and because the tree > looked different in appearance. > > > > Never underestimate the power of the subconscious and it’s good to dream > once in a while! > > > > Bargad , Banyan tree, > > Regards > > Raghu > >
