Very nice photographs Prasad ji Just a small technical point. These are not fruits rather ripened seeds. Gymnosperms don;t have fruits in the true sense, ovules and consequently seeds are naked.
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 4:49 PM, prasad dash <prasad.dash2...@gmail.com>wrote: > Dear members sharing picture of another fruit plant *Cycas sphaerica*which i > have taken from Ranpur. The ripen fruits are completely boiled in > water and then sun dried for two days. The fruits (with out coat) > then grinned and made in to power. Stored in cool places and a cake is > prepared from it just like steam cakes which is very very testy. Now a days > the plan is under threat of extinction as the frond is > been smuggled illegally by the local people instrumented by the traders. It > is reported that the trunk is sold per Rs.1000/-. Hence the tree is > completely up rooted in most parts of Nayagarh district of Orissa which > support maximum population of this plant. > > Place of Collection: Ranpur, Nayagarh > Habit: Tree > Habitat: Moist deciduous forests mixed with Peninsular Sal forest > > > Regards > > Prasad > > -- > Prasad Kumar Dash > Ecologist, Orissa, India > email: prasad.dash2...@gmail.com > ph. 09437444241 >
