... yes, we had ... one of them at https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/jLrfASAk0B4/discussion There could be another in the database.
Regards. Dinesh On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Bhatt Sweta <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > >
