Please check the characters of the tree in Trees of Delhi. The differentiation has been given very clearly for Lagerstroemia . Photographs are often misleading.
--- On Mon, 25/10/10, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: From: Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> Subject: Fwd: [efloraofindia:51886] hello, To: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]>, "Dinesh Valke" <[email protected]>, "Shrikant Ingalhalikar" <[email protected]>, "promila chaturvedi" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, 25 October, 2010, 10:48 PM Resurfacing again for ID Earlier feedback Shrikant ji....................................his seems to be an urban tree of Lagerstroemia reginae or Tamhan. Pls provide info in the prescribed format to help quick ID. Regards, Promila ji......................................It seems to be L.flos-reginae. Let the expert study the character Lagerstroemia reginae is now correctly known as L. hirsuta (according to GRIN as well as Hortus Third) L. flos-reginae is now correctly known as L. speciosa -- 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/ The leaves are oblong in L. hirsuta and elliptic-oblong and more pointed in L. speciosa. Also the veins are more prominent in latter. To me it looks like L. hirsuta ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: asmita divekar <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:30 AM Subject: [efloraofindia:49363] hello, To: [email protected] help me identify this tree Regards, Ar.Asmita Divekar.
