Well described! It looks like a Yellow-eyed pong pong tree (Cerbera odollam), a coastal tree belonging to the family Apocynaceae; said to be poisonous...
Regards Vijayasankar Raman National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 11:00 AM, shriharsha nitsture <[email protected] > wrote: > Dear all > > Today at Gate way of India (Mumbai) just below the Shivaji Maharaj statue > we observed a handsome tree as big as plumeria alba, with a dense canopy of > large, pointy, smooth (?) about 25 to 30 cm long. Flowers: plumeria alba > type white flowers with elephant apple type green fruits. The leaves were > frangipany type. > > Regards > > shriharsha nitsure >
