Hi, My apologies. As I had stated earlier Pravin's tree is a yellow-flower variety of Bombax ceiba. Regards, Neil Soares. --- On Mon, 2/7/11, Neil Soares <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Neil Soares <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:62320] Yellow Silk Cotton flowering To: "Satish Phadke" <[email protected]>, "promila chaturvedi" <[email protected]> Cc: "Pravin Kawale" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Date: Monday, February 7, 2011, 10:18 PM Hi, There seems to be some confusion here.... -Pravin's tree is a yellow-flower variety of the Red Silk Cotton tree [Bombax ceiba]. -The White Silk Cotton tree [Ceiba pentandra] or Kapok tree is an exotic, native to the Andamans, Malayasia and tropical America. -The Yellow Silk Cotton tree [Cochlospermum religiosum] is featured here. Regards, Neil Soares. --- On Mon, 2/7/11, promila chaturvedi <[email protected]> wrote: From: promila chaturvedi <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:61842] Yellow Silk Cotton flowering To: "Satish Phadke" <[email protected]> Cc: "Pravin Kawale" <[email protected]>, "Neil Soares" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Date: Monday, February 7, 2011, 6:44 PM Yes, I also agree with Dr. Phadke. Pravin Ji's specimen is Ceiba pentandra, Promila On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> wrote: I think Pravin's species is not Cochlospermum but Yellow coloured Bombax ceiba from family Bombacaceae. Excellent and unusual. Dr Phadke On 31 January 2011 19:05, Pravin Kawale <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, Same from Chaul,Alibag on 30Jan,2011 Thanks On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Neil Soares <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, Photographed at my farm at Shahapur today. Had also posted photographs of this last year. Please check the archives of this group for them. Regards, Neil Soares. -- Pravin
