Yes it is Barringtonia, but i am not confirm about the species,, i doubt for species racemosa???? it may be
regards, On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 11:54 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding for Id confirmation or otherwise please. > *Barringtonia* *racemosa* (L.) Spreng. as per the Plant List: > http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-313527 > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Col Bimal Sarkar <[email protected]> > Date: 18 September 2011 22:06 > Subject: [efloraofindia:82228] Fw: BARRINGTONIA RACIMOSA > To: [email protected] > > > > > Regards > Col (Retd) Bimal Sarkar > Mobile: 9434194942 > > --- On *Thu, 9/15/11, Col Bimal Sarkar <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Col Bimal Sarkar <[email protected]> > Subject: BARRINGTONIA RACIMOSA > To: "A P" <[email protected]>, "abhay prasad" < > [email protected]>, "aditi pal" <[email protected]>, > "Alok De" <[email protected]>, "Amitava Chudhury" < > [email protected]>, [email protected], "Anup Datta" < > [email protected]>, "Arabindo Ghosh" <[email protected]>, > "arindam sarkar" <[email protected]>, "ARVIND SAKLANI" < > [email protected]>, "Ashim Dutta" <[email protected]>, > "asoke kumar sannigrahi" <[email protected]>, "bikash basu" < > [email protected]>, "Binay Bandopadhyaya" <[email protected]>, > "Brig Aloke Tyagi" <[email protected]>, "Brig.Rajbir Singh" < > [email protected]>, "balwant rao" <[email protected]>, "Debdatt > Choudhury" <[email protected]>, "Deepita Ray" <[email protected]>, > "Dilip Dey" <[email protected]>, "Goutam De" <[email protected]>, > "Harendranath Dakua" <[email protected]>, "Ishika Mitra" < > [email protected]>, "k d" <[email protected]>, "K T Karmachandran" > <[email protected]>, "Kalyanbrata Ray" <[email protected]>, > "Kamalakar Mukherjee" <[email protected]>, "Mithun > Roychowdhury" <[email protected]>, "nsr1946 rawat" < > [email protected]>, "Prabal Sen" <[email protected]>, "Prabhat Kumar" > <[email protected]>, "Pradip Sengupta" < > [email protected]>, "Pradip Kumar Datta" <[email protected]>, > "pradyot sarkar" <[email protected]>, "Pranab Chakraborty" < > [email protected]>, "Purnima Bhaskar" <[email protected]>, > "S N Chatterjee" <[email protected]>, "sankari.p chakraborty" < > [email protected]>, "Sarmila De" <[email protected]>, "Shakti > Banerjee" <[email protected]>, "Sharad Nair" <[email protected]>, > "Shekhar Kumar Sen" <[email protected]>, "Shishir Chakravarty" < > [email protected]>, "Subir Kumar Majumdar" <[email protected]>, > "Subodh Modak choudhuri" <[email protected]>, "Sujit DAS" < > [email protected]>, "Sunil Kar" <[email protected]>, > "swapankumar bidyananda" <[email protected]>, "Tapas > Bhattacharya" <[email protected]>, "Tushar Kanti Ghosh" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, September 15, 2011, 3:53 PM > > > Dear Friend, > I was observing a particular tree species on the road > side of Cooch Behar,for last few years,but I did not know what the species > was.But I could make out that few of this species have been planted by > forest department.Last month I saw the tree in bloom for the first > time.From the shape and colour of the flowers I suspected ( being a > non-botanist )the plant to be some species of Barringtonia.A search on > Google confirmed it.It is Barringtonia racimosa.It is known as Samudraphala > in Sanskrit.Attaching few images of the plant. > Regards > Col (Retd) Bimal Sarkar > Mobile: 9434194942 > > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg ([email protected]) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use > them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1750 members & > 97,000 messages on 30/11/11) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database > of more than 6000 species). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > -- - H.S. A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone
