If i am not wrong, did we have this discussion earlier as well, for the same reasons??!!
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: > ... it may happen that a name popular for a plant in one region could be > not so in another. > In context of regions, a popular name of one plant could be altogether > shared by another plant. > > Parijat is one such example. > In most of India, *Nyctanthes arbor-tristris* is well known as Parijat, it > could be so even in the area where the baobab *Adansonia digitata* OR the > Indian coral tree, *Erythrina indica* (syn. of *Erythrina variegata*) is / > are known by the same name. For a good justification that baobab indeed is > known by the name somewhere in India, it is seen featured on Indian postal > stamp ... reference: > http://www.travelindia-guide.com/indian-stamps/collection/1997.php > > Link to one of earlier discussions on Parijat ... > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/jLrfASAk0B4/discussion > > Interestingly, there is no entry found for parijata(ka) as a name for * > Nyctanthes* in some of very well-known Sanskrit dictionaries like: > • Monier-Williams Dictionary ... > http://www.sanskrita.org/wiki/index.php/Special:Search?search=Nyctanthes&go=Go > • Revised and enlarged edition of Prin. V. S. Apte's The practical > Sanskrit-English dictionary ... http://tinyurl.com/4m4fcrx > > Regards. > Dinesh > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Ulhas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Baobab or Gorakhchich is also known as Monkey-bread tree or Upside >> down tree (when leafless it appears as if the roots are up in the >> sky!). Botanically it is Adansonia digitata. It is endemic in >> Tropical Africa and supposed to have been introduced in western India >> from Africa by Arabian traders. This is an ecologically important >> tree and there is a beautiful film titled Baobab which shows the life >> around this tree all around the day and night. >> >> This is not Parijat. Parijat of Prajakt is Nyctanthes arbor-tristris, >> a very popular / fragrant garden plant - small tree / big shrub. The >> scented pretty small flowers with white petals and orange tube bloom >> in the evening and fall in the early morning, perfect for the >> believers to collect and use for pooja. The plant supposed to have >> emerged during the churning of the ocean by devas and danavas. The >> origin is recorded as East India and Sumatra, however the plant is not >> really seen in wilderness but mostly in gardens and plantations. The >> leaves are rough and used like sand paper to polish wood. >> >> Ulhas >> >> >> On Feb 27, 11:00 pm, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: >> > At some places, it was planted by britishers. Native of African >> continent. >> > Interestingly this is not native but still finds mention in the vedas >> > as Parijat tree. >> > Wild species of this have been reported from India. >> > Pankaj >> > >> > >> > > -- *Bhatt Shweta* *Asso. Prof.,* TCSC, *Doctoral Research Student,* M.S.U.
