Looking at the greyish trunk, I would have gone with Jamun. Pankaj
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:22 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id assistance please. > > Some earlier relevant feedback: > > “To me this *looks like a wild Mango tree*. A close up would have been > helpful. However, I have seen a similar wild mango tree on which there were > at least 60 bee hives. Every year they come and colonize the same mango tree > during honey season. > Regards > Yazdy.” > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Narendra Joshi <[email protected]> > Date: 26 August 2010 17:39 > Subject: [efloraofindia:45578] Tree for ID (26.0810 NSJ) > To: Indiantrees <[email protected]> > > > Dear friends, > > Attached herewith pictures of a tree for ID. The photo was taken in Jan-09 > near Amboli forest region. The tree was full with honeycombs, so a close-up > is not available. Around 40 honeycombs were noticed on that tree. The nearby > people told they never remove the bee-hives from that particular tree. The > tree was around 35 to 40 feet tall. > > With Regards, > > Narendra Joshi > > > > > -- > 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 1420 members & > 52,000 messages on 26/10/10 & with a database of around 4200 species on > 30/9/10) > > -- *********************************************** "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

