Certaily not Ficus benghalensis. My wild guess is Holoptela integrifolia (chiraul), but I am not so sure. Then it is not a ficus. ak
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:34 AM, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- Anand Kumar Bhatt A-59, B.S.F.Colony, Airport Road Gwalior. 474 005. Tele: 0751-247 2233. Mobile 0 94253 09780. My blogsite is at: http://anandkbhatt.blogspot.com (Two new blogs have been added on 3 August '10.) And the photo site: www.flickr.com/photos/akbhatt/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ten most common surnames of Indians: Singh, Kumar, Sharma, Patel, Shah, Lal, Gupta, Bhat, Rao, Reddy. Cheers!
