Again Beautiful set Raman Ji On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Rathinasabapathy Bhuvaragasamy < [email protected]> wrote:
> I had gone through all your postings. All are really good photos with > narrations of each sp. details. > > Regards, > > BRS > > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 10:43 AM, raman <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> The Mesquite has been introduced in Asia and Africa and is now wide >> spread in the semi-arid areas of the world. In many areas, it is considered >> a weed. It is a drought resistant small tree, and has been planted in dry >> areas of Delhi. It is a deciduous thorny shrub or small tree, to 12 m tall; >> trunk to 1.2 m in diameter, bark thick, brown or blackish, shallowly >> fissured; leaves compound, commonly many more than 9 pairs, the leaflets >> are mostly 5–10 mm long, linear-oblong, glabrous, often hairy, commonly >> rounded at the apex; stipular spines, if any, yellowish, often stout; >> flowers perfect, greenish-yellow, sweet-scented, spikelike; corolla deeply >> lobate. Pods several-seeded, strongly compressed when young, thick at >> maturity, more or less constricted between the seeds, 10–25 cm long, brown >> or yellowish, 10–30-seeded. Mesquite pods are among the earliest known >> foods of prehistoric man in the new world. Today flour products made from >> the pods are still popular, although only sporadically prepared, mostly by >> Amerindians. Pods are made into gruels, sometimes fermented to make a >> mesquite wine >> Raman >> > > > > -- > B. Rathinasabapathy > Project Co-ordinator > Nilgiri Biosphere Nature Park > 1388, Avinashi Road > Peelamedu > Coimbatore-641004 > > <http://mail.google.com/subscribe.mhtml> > > > > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
