where is this hill, what state? how high above sea level? u ==== On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Balkar Arya <balkara...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nice capture Usha Ji. Once i got a chance to get its one Pod and that is > kept in Museum of my College. today after seeing pics of yours i could > remember that we have seen this plant in Morni Hills from where we collected > its one pod. > > > On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Neil Soares <drneilsoa...@yahoo.com>wrote: > >> Hi, >> Photographed this July. Please also check this link : >> >> >> https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/16f131b0f92d3f7e/24efb43551c64d94?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=Oroxylum+indicum+Neil+Soares.#24efb43551c64d94 >> >> Regards, >> Neil Soares. >> >> --- On *Thu, 8/4/11, ushadi Micromini <microminipho...@gmail.com>* wrote: >> >> >> From: ushadi Micromini <microminipho...@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:75995] Oroxylum Indicum on the Gangetic >> Plains, flowers fallen on a public footpath UD 08042011 001 >> To: "Neil Soares" <drneilsoa...@yahoo.com> >> Cc: "efloraofindia" <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> >> Date: Thursday, August 4, 2011, 4:34 PM >> >> >> Oh , yes, I know that, that's why I was sorry for myself that that guy >> came out and shooed me away... I would have loved to hang around for a big >> nice wind gust... the seeds would have spilled out .... I tried to argue >> with the guy ... but its a military camp, I found out later... no arguing >> with them... they have work to do... >> >> Usha di >> ====== >> >> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Neil Soares >> <drneilsoa...@yahoo.com<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=drneilsoa...@yahoo.com> >> > wrote: >> >> Nice photographs Dr. Usha ! Seeds are clearly seen [in 2 pods on the >> left and one pod on the right] in the last photograph. >> Regards, >> Neil Soares. >> >> --- On *Thu, 8/4/11, ushadi Micromini >> <microminipho...@gmail.com<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=microminipho...@gmail.com> >> >* wrote: >> >> >> From: ushadi Micromini >> <microminipho...@gmail.com<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=microminipho...@gmail.com> >> > >> Subject: [efloraofindia:75988] Oroxylum Indicum on the Gangetic Plains, >> flowers fallen on a public footpath UD 08042011 001 >> To: "efloraofindia" >> <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> >> > >> Date: Thursday, August 4, 2011, 3:50 PM >> >> >> Dear All: >> I was given to understand that best Oroxylum indicum, or Shonyak of >> Ayurvedic medicine comes from those growing at the Himalayan foothills, and >> I did not expect them in gangetic plains. >> >> So I was very surprised when in peripheral vision out of running cab >> window I spotted some sword- like pods, and on second look saw leaves >> similar those on a 2 foot tall sapling I had seen in a herbal garden in >> Jamnagar about a decade ago... here was a stand of Oroxylum indicum on >> the hot humid and almost at or even a foot or two below sea level >> Gangetic plains.... on the northern fringes of Calcutta... >> >> I stopped and took some pictures, and picked up a fallen flower.... from >> the PUBLIC sidewalk... >> could not see or take pictures of the trunk or the bark etc....because of >> a huge wall and could not pick up more of the fallen flowers because no >> sooner had I picked up a flower and spread it open that a cycle riding >> plains clothes person came and very authoritatively shooed me away.. saying >> it was a restricted area.... I could not understand how can a public >> footpath with two bus-stops within 50 feet of where I was standing be a >> restricted area... >> >> Anyway, when I got home I had some dark and one acceptable picture of the >> leaves...Pods had previously opened and most likely dispersed its seeds >> away..the day before it had rained very heavily..... I did not see any on >> the footpath below in that quick 2 minute sojourn... >> >> Details: *Oroxylum indicum* >> Family: Bignoniaceae >> Genus: Oroxylum >> Species: * Oroxylum indicum* >> Sanskrit : अरलु aralu, श्योनक shyonaka >> Gujarati and Marathi : टा यिटू tayitu, टेटु tetu >> Hindi: शल्लक shallaka >> Santhal tribals call it: Rengebanam >> >> The open flower shows 5 stamens …. See recent other threads about >> Shyonak/oroxylum indicum this week … >> >> *** Root bark and seeds are medicinal… >> Root bark is an important constituent of Dashmool…. Very important in >> normalizing the gut related immune functions and improving the health of GI >> mucosa… normalizing it… many many more… recent research points to >> possible anticancer properties of the kwath of dashmool and of the >> seeds… much remains to study by astute modern clinicians…. >> >> Ushadi >> >> >> > > > -- > Regards > > Dr Balkar Singh > Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology > Arya P G College, Panipat > Haryana-132103 > 09416262964 >
