Thank you Dr G.That solves the confusion about C. maxima. But I don't know the Tamil name of sweet lime you have given :-( I know about elumichangai and kodielumichangai, but not of kolumichangai. May be the name has been hybridised!! (Could actually be a dialect that I don't know) JencyChennai --- On Tue, 11/1/11, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:59886] Fruits and Vegetables Week: Citrus maxima, pomelo or shaddok To: "Jency Samuel" <[email protected]> Cc: "tanay bose" <[email protected]>, "Yazdy Palia" <[email protected]>, "efloraofindia" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, 11 January, 2011, 2:45 PM Jency jiI am not as familiar with all Citrus species, but luckily I have the book Useful Plants of India by CSIR. According to this Tamil name Pambalimasu and Telugu Pampalamasam both belong to C. maxima, the pomello or shaddock Sweet lime is a different plant Citrus limettoides Tanaka. Tamil name for this is Kolumichangai, Telugu Gajanimma or nemumapandu. I hope that solves some confusion. -- 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/ On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Jency Samuel <[email protected]> wrote: What we call 'pamblimas' in Tamil is not sweet lime. Musambi is sweet lime (chaathukudi in Tamil). But now I am confused as to which Citrus sp. is pamblimas and which is sweet lime. May be Muthu / Mr Vijay can help me out with the pamblimas name! --- On Mon, 10/1/11, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: From: tanay bose <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:59886] Fruits and Vegetables Week: Citrus maxima, pomelo or shaddok To: "Gurcharan Singh" <[email protected]> Cc: "Yazdy Palia" <[email protected]>, "efloraofindia" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, 10 January, 2011, 3:07 PM This is also called sweet lime but I am not sureTanay On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:12 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: Yazdy ji The first four photographs are from the same tree in Herbal Garden at Delhi. The first fruit from California looks similar to the one from Delhi, although the other two from California look different in texture of the rind. Here are some Indian names of the fruit: Hindi & Bengali: Chakotra, mahanibu, sadaphal Guj: Obakotru Mar: pains, papnasa Mal: Pamparamasam Kan: Chakotre, Sakkota Tam: Pambalimasu Tel: Pampalamasam -- 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/ On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Yazdy Palia <[email protected]> wrote: Dear Dr. Gurcharan Singh ji, Some of the pictures look like the sweetlime or Mosambi. Interesting that the Pomelo there are so small. Though the first picture and the flowers are definitely looking like the Pomelo at my place. Thank you for sharing. Regards Yazdy. On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Citrus maxima (syn: C. grandis), pomelo or shaddok, largest citrus fruit > often reaching 25 cm in diameter, and green to pale yellow in colour when > ripe, with sweet white (or, more rarely, pink or red) flesh and very thick > pudgy rind. It is also known as pummelo, pommelo, Chinese > grapefruit, jabong,lusho fruit, pompelmous. Very common in USA, also grown > to limited level in India, photographed from Herbal Garden, Delhi and also > from California. > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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 (Mobile) 604-822-2019 (Lab) 604-822-6089 (Fax) [email protected]
