On Sep 9, 7:44 am, ushadi Micromini <[email protected]> wrote:
> yes Madhuri.... keep it open... this family is in a great flux... APG APGII
> and Thorne systems come to mind... each system it seems keeps moving the
> chess pieces around....in subfamily, and tribes... so one never knows (esp
> people like me semi serious "non-botanist-botanist" types... for me this was
> a source of confusion and apprehension,)
>
> May be as the data is coordinated... Balkarji would give us his take on the
> classification!!
>
> ha ha Balkarji one more job!!
>
> usha di
>
> =====
>
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Madhuri Pejaver <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> > hey some reorientation is occuring in brain.
> > Again never occured that Katesavari is Malvaceae
> > Madhuri
>
> > --- On *Thu, 8/9/11, ushadi Micromini <[email protected]>* wrote:
>
> > From: ushadi Micromini <[email protected]>
> > Subject: [efloraofindia:80524] Malvaceae week 952011-9112011 UD 020 Bombax
> > ceiba Lal Sheemul
> > To: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]>, "Balkar Arya" <
> > [email protected]>, "Gurcharan Singh" <[email protected]>, "J.M. Garg"
> > <[email protected]>, "Dinesh Valke" <[email protected]>, "Satish
> > Phadke" <[email protected]>, "Neil Soares" <[email protected]>
> > Date: Thursday, 8 September, 2011, 9:11 PM
>
> > Malvaceae week 952011-9112011 UD 020 Bombax ceiba Lal sheemul
>
> > Dear All:
>
> > For about 8 to 10 day at the very beginning of spring in Kolkata there is
> > a bright red spot among the bare branched tree tops… and if you pay
> > attention you can count numerous birds, esp bulbuls and sunbirds etc
> > drinking
> > nectar and eting away something….
>
> > I believe Bimal da had done a series this year to document the species of
> > birds visiting the red Sheemul flowers…
>
> > The two pictures I am sending in are from a tree whose branches come down
> > to my eye level… near where we go for morning walks….
>
> > Family: Malvaceae
>
> > Subfamily: Bombacoideae
>
> > Genus: Bombax L.
>
> > Species : Bombax ceiba
>
> > Colloquial names : red sheemul, shimul, shalmali etc
>
> > Enjoy
>
> > USha di
