A beautiful specimen tree is seen in Madras Theosophical Society Campus, Chennai.
On Aug 6, 10:45 pm, Tanay Bose <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes Cerbera odollam as indicated by Vijaya ji > Tanay > > On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Vijayasankar <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > 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 > > -- > *Tanay Bose* > Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant. > Department of Botany. > University of British Columbia . > 3529-6270 University Blvd. > Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada) > Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile) > 604-822-2019 (Lab) > 604-822-6089 (Fax) > [email protected] > *Webpages:*http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/mberbee.htmlhttp://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/gradstud.htmlhttps://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/
