Certainly Samanea saman (Rain tree)- also called Vilaiti Sirsi in Kolkata- as I have stayed in Kolkata for a long time..
On 15 January 2011 03:45, Vijayasankar <[email protected]> wrote: > It looks like Samanea saman (= Albizia saman) to me too. > > > Regards > > > Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D. > Post Doctoral Research Associate > National Center for Natural Products Research > Thad Cochran Research Center > University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 38677 > Phone: +1 662 915 1018 > > > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Pankaj Oudhia <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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 >>> >> >> > -- 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 1490 members & 59,000 messages on 5/1/11 & with a database of around 4450 species on 15/12/10)
