I also think this is some species of Ficus but hard to tell without a closeup Tanay
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Neil Soares <[email protected]>wrote: > 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]<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[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 > > > > > > > -- Tanay Bose Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant Department of Botany University of British Columbia 3529-6270 University Blvd. Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada) Phone: 778-323-4036
