Thanks Pankaj, Seems to be the right ID! Compare with this image http://genzor.net/osc/images/Ficus%20nitida.jpg Only that Ficus nitida is a synonym of Ficus benjamina var. benjamina, according to GRIN. - Tabish
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > How about Ficus nitida? > Pankaj > > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:00 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: >> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >> >> Some earlier relevant feedback: >> >> “Foliage looks too big to be F. microcarpa or F. microcarpa 'Green Gem', but >> too small and wrong shape to be F. elastica, F. macrophylla, or F. >> columnaris. Looks close (shape, size) to F. rubiginosa, but foliage lacks >> any tomentum, is too concolorous, and has fruit of the wrong color. >> >> That's about all I've got. I'm pretty certain it is one that I haven't seen >> before. >> >> Regards-- >> Ken. ” >> >> >> >> “I think F. microcarpa >> >> Here are mine from Delhi >> >> -- >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh” >> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Tabish <[email protected]> >> Date: 3 September 2010 10:22 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:46351] unid Fig-TQ03 >> To: Efloraofindia <[email protected]> >> >> >> Looks like a fig tree. >> Small (maybe young) tree, cultivated >> Leaves leathery, shining, obovate, rounded tip. >> Photographed on 2nd Sept 2010 >> Location Delhi (Garden of Five Senses) >> >> Please identify >> - Tabish >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg ([email protected]) >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a thousand species & >> eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged >> alphabetically & place-wise): >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them >> for free as per liberal licensing conditions attached with each image. >> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, >> please visit/ join our Google e-group- >> Efloraofindia:http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1400 >> members & 50,000 messages on 10/10/10 & with a database of around 4100 >> species on 31/8/10) >> >> > > > > -- > *********************************************** > "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" > > > Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) > Research Associate > Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project > Department of Habitat Ecology > Wildlife Institute of India > Post Box # 18 > Dehradun - 248001, India >
