Welcome and all thebest Marianne! Anogeissus has very many medecinal uses. Very keen to know about your sweet Tamarind is it the same sp. Tamarind indica L.?. Coincidently I happened to buy Sweet Tamarind (Thailand) from the Mumbai market the other day and it really tastes as sweet as dates! Sending the pictures in a separate mail.
regards, Rashida. On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Marianne de Nazareth < [email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you for all the kind directions of the group esp Rashida and Neil! I > will try soaking them before planting. I will be really happy if a few grow! > > Ok so probably thats why the sweet tamarind which I brought from Bangkok > -- only a few sprouted. They are a year old and are still so stunted in > growth. > > regds, > > Marianne > > > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Neil Soares <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Marianne, >> Just so that you are not disappointed - the seeds require pre-treatment >> prior to sowing... >> They have to be soaked in cold water for 24 hrs. The seeds that sink to >> the bottom of the container are viable and have to be promptly sown. The >> seeds that are found floating obviously have to be discarded. >> Good Luck !!! >> Regards, >> Neil Soares. >> >> >> --- On *Tue, 2/22/11, Marianne de Nazareth <[email protected]>*wrote: >> >> >> From: Marianne de Nazareth <[email protected]> >> Subject: Fwd: [efloraofindia:63315] Fwd: Identification of the tree please >> To: "indiantreepix" <[email protected]> >> Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 7:36 AM >> >> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: *Marianne de Nazareth* >> <[email protected]<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> >> > >> Date: Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:52 PM >> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:63276] Fwd: Identification of the tree please >> To: Rashida Atthar >> <[email protected]<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> >> > >> >> >> Yes it is Rashida! Looking at this picture after you gave the name I could >> identify the seeds and the leaf! >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/bardosaurus/3052282024/ >> >> Wow you all are really brilliant! >> >> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/bardosaurus/3052282024/>MANY MANY thanks! >> >> I gathered a lot of the seeds. How does the tree reproduce? Just use the >> dry seeds? I'd love to grow aome saplings! >> >> regds, >> >> Marianne >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Rashida Atthar >> <[email protected]<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> Remote chance of an Anogeissus sp. perhaps ? >> >> regards, >> Rashida. >> >> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Gurcharan Singh >> <[email protected]<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> Eucalyptus sp, I suppose >> >> >> -- >> 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, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Marianne de Nazareth < >> [email protected]<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> Hi, >> >> I have attached pictures of a tree bark and its leaves for identification. >> The trees are growing in Bandipur just beyond Mysore and look like a >> plantation of the same variety. They are slim trees. >> >> Grateful for identification please. >> >> Many thanks! >> >> >> Marianne >> >> -- >> >> Former Asst. Editor The Deccan Herald >> Freelance Journalist >> Adjunct faculty St. Joseph's College & COMMITS >> http://mariannedenazareth.blogspot.com/ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Former Asst. Editor The Deccan Herald >> Freelance Journalist >> Adjunct faculty St. Joseph's College & COMMITS >> http://mariannedenazareth.blogspot.com/ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Former Asst. Editor The Deccan Herald >> Freelance Journalist >> Adjunct faculty St. Joseph's College & COMMITS >> http://mariannedenazareth.blogspot.com/ >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > > Former Asst. Editor The Deccan Herald > Freelance Journalist > Adjunct faculty St. Joseph's College & COMMITS > http://mariannedenazareth.blogspot.com/ > > > >
