Gorgeous....... Excellent shots. These fruits are best source of Vitamin C On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:28 PM, raman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Amla is a small to medium sized deciduous tree, reaching 8 to 18 m in > height, which is known for its edible fruit of the same name. The tree has > crooked trunk and spreading branches. The leaves are simple, nearly > stalkless and closely set along slender branchlets. The leaves are often > mistaken for leaflets of pinnate leaves. The genus name Phyllanthus is > derived from Greek words meaning leaf-flower, an allusion to the apparent > bearing of flowers on the leaves. Amla flowers are small, greenish-yellow > or pinkish. The flowers have six segments, but no real petals. Male and > female flowers are carried separately on the same branch. The fruit is > nearly spherical, light greenish yellow, quite smooth and hard on > appearance, with 6 vertical stripes or furrows. Ripening in autumn, the > berries are harvested by hand after climbing to upper branches bearing the > fruits. The taste of Amla is sour, bitter and astringent, and is quite > fibrous. In India, it is common to eat gooseberries with salt and water to > make the sour fruits palatable. > > Raman > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
