It looks like Albizia sp. may be Albizia saman as replies are indicating. I am remembering the words of Traditional Healers when they identify trees in far hills with the help of canopy shape. They say Albizia as Sirsa i.e. Sir-Sa -Head like.
Jim is searching options of Ficus sp. I have sent thousands of images of Ficus for confirmation. Lets wait for the comments of other members. Garg ji can tell whether these trees still exist in Kolkata or not, in same fashion. regards Pankaj Oudhia On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks a lot for correcting me Neil sir, > I assume most of Ritwik's movies were shot in Calcutta... > Regards > Pankaj > > > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Neil Soares <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Dr. Oudhia, >> Obviously an avenue of Rain trees. A few of these still exist in Santa >> Cruz, Bombay. >> Regards, >> Neil Soares. >> >> --- On *Fri, 1/14/11, Pankaj Oudhia <[email protected]>* wrote: >> >> >> From: Pankaj Oudhia <[email protected]> >> Subject: [efloraofindia:60306] Old trees in Ritwik Ghatak Movie >> (Cloud-Capped Star; 1960) >> To: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]> >> Date: Friday, January 14, 2011, 7:01 PM >> >> Dear Group Members, >> >> I received an interesting query. Please go through it and share your >> comments. >> >> regards >> >> Pankaj Oudhia >> >> -=-= >> Dear Mr. Oudhia, >> I was watching an older Ritwik Ghatak movie (Cloud-Capped Star; 1960), and >> a >> couple of scenes included views of a road flanked by large trees (see >> attached >> screenshot). As you likely know, Ghatak was a Bengali director, and this >> move >> was filmed in West Bengal. I wrote to Dorrie Rosen at the New York >> Botanical >> Garden to see if she could identify the tree from this distant view (and >> w/o >> closeup images of the leaves, etc.). As can be read from the thread of >> comments, she was guessing Banyan, but also suggested it could be a Devil >> tree >> (Alstonia scholaris) or Ficus religiosa syn. Urostigma religiosum (sacred >> Bodhi >> tree). Because we don't have close-ups of the foliage, she suggested >> contacting >> an Indian expert. So ... any idea what this tree is? This is mostly out of >> curiosity, rather than any scientific need. >> >> Thanks much, >> Jim Borowiec >> >> >> > > > -- > *********************************************** > "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 >
