Usha di ... the plant posted is not *Thespesia lampas* ... from the look of first image Banakapas 1 - though not sure, could be some species of * Gossypium*. Please wait for comment(s) Regards. Dinesh
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:40 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > ** Thanks Usha di. Will prefer Madhuri from you. Requested others. They > don't listen. > I learnt my Botany from my grand ma. She and me had a habit of bringing > cutting of any dam plant available in near visinity and plant it around our > house. It was a jungle in the area of around 100 feet by 20 feet. All > Malvaceaes and Aposynaceae, paps and what not were there. Most of the plants > for which I have told vernacular names were in my jungle, healthy and > flowering. > For Gauri, Ganapati and Mangalagauri we use to collect all patries > (leaves), from near by. So had to know the names. Nice were those days. > Thanks again. Will surely collect the seeds and photos too! > Madhuri > > Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel > ------------------------------ > *From: * ushadi Micromini <[email protected]> > *Sender: * [email protected] > *Date: *Wed, 7 Sep 2011 09:15:33 +0530 > *To: *Madhuri Pejaver<[email protected]> > *Cc: *efloraofindia<[email protected]>; Gurcharan Singh< > [email protected]>; J.M. Garg<[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: [efloraofindia:80100] Malvaceae week 09 05 2011 UD 004 Ban > Kapas Thespesia lampas Jungli Paras Piplo Kolkata 08 > > Madhuri ji: what an acute observation as a child... smart.... have you seen > similar plants now? if you do... please get some pics and seeds... that > would be lovely... > usha di > == > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Madhuri Pejaver <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Dear Ushadi >> In my childhood we had a cotton plant in our garden, I do not know the >> genus and sps. But it was called as Dev kapus. >> The cotton balles have seeds inside. In one variety all seeeds are joined >> togather to form one bundle. This is considered as good cotton? >> While the second one has its seeds seperate. For seperating the seeds the >> first one is better, Because cleaning is easy. >> we use to make the battis in lamps from this cotton. the plant was there >> atleast for 10 to 11 years as per my memory. We use to cut it to keep the >> proper height so that we can remove the cotton. One day it fail in rain >> Madhuri >> >> --- On *Tue, 6/9/11, ushadi Micromini <[email protected]>* wrote: >> >> >> From: ushadi Micromini <[email protected]> >> Subject: [efloraofindia:79982] Malvaceae week 09 05 2011 UD 004 Ban Kapas >> Thespesia lampas Jungli Paras Piplo Kolkata 08 >> To: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]>, "Gurcharan Singh" < >> [email protected]>, "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> >> Date: Tuesday, 6 September, 2011, 6:02 PM >> >> >> Dear All: >> >> This is a new plant for me... never knew cotton plants would go on and on >> for years... this one does apparently... look at its stem... its about 8 - 9 >> inches in diameter... I always thought cotton plants were a yearly >> affair... may be the agricultural pathos had brainwashed me/us... >> >> This was in a well tended herbal Garden ... for demonstration purposes to >> Ethnomedicine and other students.. >> >> >> Family : Malvaceae >> >> * * >> >> *Species: Thespesia lampus* (Cav.) Dalz. Ex. Dalz. & Gibs. ; >> >> Syn: *Azanzas lampas* (Cav.) Alef.; >> >> *Thespesia macrophylla* Blume >> >> Vernacular names : Bengali: Ban Kapas * *বন* *কাপাস >> >> Gujarati: Jungli Para piplo જંગલી* >> *પ।રસ પીપળો >> >> >> >> This specimen was about 9-10 feet tall, grew kinda straight up, had a few >> flowers, I went in 4 pm , so the flowers were closing, but the petal color >> was still beautiful pink... and a few pods high up had opened up to reveal >> the cotton. The leaves were varied in size... largest were 7-8 inches long. >> >> >> >> >> What is used is: Various tribes use differently... Some use flower paste >> for burn, root paste for eczema, juice of young pods on Scabies. I found >> it very curious that Santhals of Bengal mix juice of its stem bark and >> Aristolochia indica root paste on snake bite.... this we learned in class. >> >> >> But along a Bengal village by the Damodar river we found an old lady who >> said she had in the past used the root bark juice to induce miscarriage ( >> this is quite opposite to the effect of Thepesia populinea root bark paste >> effect... which says it helps women get pregnant, esp get a male child... >> curiouser and curiouser!!!) >> >> >> Come to think of it ... similar plant had been growing beyond the wall of >> students' garden at a Ayurvedic college... and the local young gardeners, >> very sheepishly asked us not to photograph it... >> >> there was so much else to learn that we did not pursue that tree... but I >> distinctly remember it had cotton pods.. round ones , just like this one... >> >> >> Thanks.. >> >> Usha di >> >> >
