Dear Rakesh, I am not Botanist or specialist on this topic but it is interesting and need justification.
If my field observations are concerned than we came across such individual plants in southern parts of Rajasthan. And also a question arise that if the coloration changes due to rise in temperature then there should occur major changes in all the saffron flowers of Butea in the hot parts of Rajasthan where lot of habitats are facing micro-climatic changes especially when it matters with temperature rise......!!!!!!!!!! Regards Satya Prakash Mehra, Ph. D. Conservation Biologist Rajputana Society of Natural History Rajasthan, India ________________________________ From: Rakesh Biswas <[email protected]> To: indiantreepix <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, 5 April 2011 10:55 PM Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:66454] Any relation of climate change to the color of butea monosperma turning yellow? One of my friends pointed me to this link and i would be grateful for your opinion on it ( regarding the scientific validity of the claim etc): http://www.bhaskar.com/article/MP-OTH-palash-saffron-yellow-flowers-now-beginning-to-1992725.html Yellow Butea Monosperma is otherwise well described/documented ( independent of climatic effects ) http://pathabhavanpraktoni.net/main/?p=2084 regards, rakesh
