Dinesh ji, i wanted to know the habitat of plant that you photographed (flickr ones). I guess they are from MH but don't know wild or planted.
Regards Vijayasankar Raman National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: > Vijayasankar ji ... am assuming your query: "I would like to know from > where you photographed those pictures." is addressed to Shrikant ji. > > > Regards. > Dinesh > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Vijayasankar > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Thanks Shrikant ji, for the picture. The other species, C.brevispina, is >> quite different and should not be confused by the yellow band in petals, i >> learnt. Thanks also to Giby for distinguishing these two species. >> >> Gamble quotes the distribution of C. brevispina as "...usually near the >> coast" which matches with my observation of this in sacred groves of >> Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest type (also inhabiting Capparis rotundifolia >> and C. zeylanica) near Villupuram in TN. So its presence in MH (evergreen >> forests?) needs to be verified i think. This sp is not dealt by Cooke. >> >> Dinesh ji, according to Gamble there are 4 species dealt in FPM having >> white flowers with yellow tinge, that confused us. (pl note Shrikant ji's >> observation is 'pale blue' in C. rheedii, a form of cultivated one?) I would >> like to know from where you photographed those pictures. Like us, Wallich >> and Hooker were also confused this but to C. zeylanica. >> >> Regards >> >> Vijayasankar Raman >> National Center for Natural Products Research >> University of Mississippi >> >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:08 AM, Shrikant Ingalhalikar < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Sorry, I could not attach in the earlier 'Capparis in Jijamata Udyan' >>> thread. This is C. rheedei DC. syn. C. heyneana Wall. that is found along >>> streams in thick shady evergreen forests of western ghats. The branches are >>> spinous, leaves are 10-15 cm long and flowers are 10-12 cm and pale blue. >>> Plant in Mumbai garden differs greatly from this plant of W. ghats. >>> >>> Shrikant Ingalhalikar >>> 12 Varshanand Society >>> Anandnagar Sinhagad Road >>> Pune 411 051. www.idsahyadri.com >>> Tel 91 20 2435 0765. >>> Fax 91 20 2438 9190. >>> >>> <http://sigads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/click_nx.ads/www.rediffmail.com/signatureline.htm@Middle?> >> >> >> >
