Vow !!!! Such a lovely set of Pics Sir On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 12:33 PM, prasad dash <[email protected]>wrote:
> Another neatly and completely scientific photograph of a common plant Sir > Ji. The pods are looking superb > > Regards > > prasad > > > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> *Acacia nilotica* (L.) Delile subsp. *indica *(Benth.) Brenan, Kew >> Bull. 1957:84. 1957 >> syn: *Acacia arabica* var. *indica* Benth.; *Acacia* *nilotica* var. * >> indica* (Benth) A. F. Hill >> >> Tree with rough fissured blackish bark; stipular spines straight, up to 8 >> cm long; leaves bipinnate, pinnae up to 11 pairs, with 1-2 glands on >> petiole and topmost pair of pinnae; leaflets up to 25 pairs, up to 7 mm >> long, linear-oblong; flowers yellow in globose heads occurring 2-6 >> together, up to 15 mm across; corolla 2.5-3.5 mm long; pod up to 15 cm >> long, distinctly constricted between seeds, white-grayish tomentellous. >> >> Commonly planted along roadsides, photographed from Vikas Puri, New >> Delhi, flowering in August-September. >> >> >> >> -- >> 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/ >> >> > > > -- > Prasad Kumar Dash > Ecologist, Orissa, India > email: [email protected] > ph. 09437444241 > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
