Dear All, If nobody on this forum can identify the species, i take the video to be fake. it is impossible that such a striking behavior by a plant is unknown to this forum.
Thank you. On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:52:22 AM UTC+5:30 Mahadeswara wrote: > This video was posted long back in the group , if I remember right. This > is being circulated on whats app for the last one year . Even now I > received from 3 to 4 members. > For me it looks *FAKE. * > > On Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 9:33:21 AM UTC+5:30 nadeem waqif wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> a strange request out of curiosity. someone forwarded me this video >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTzrXtXejb4 >> >> which shows a rather dangerous tree whose white fruits spontaneously >> light up match sticks. they mention the local name as Pandava Patti, which >> has been identified as Callicarpa tomentosa, but the tree in the video is >> clearly not C. tomentosa. >> >> The location alluded to in the video is Chandrapur which might refer to >> the forests of east Maharashtra tho the uploader of the video is in Mizoram. >> >> The video does seem genuine and not a stunt, hence i dared to link it on >> this group as a enquiry. >> >> best regards >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "eFloraofIndia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/a9b1f596-2ab8-43ea-a963-6d3bf35720dbn%40googlegroups.com.
