Good photographs Raman ji
-- 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 Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Balkar Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Nice Shots Raman Ji > > > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 7:36 AM, raman <[email protected]>wrote: > >> South Indian Mahua is a variety of Mahua which is predominently found in >> South India. It differs from the usual Mahua in that its leaves are >> narrower. Mohua is one of the most important of Indian forest trees, not >> because it may possess valuable timber - and it is hardly ever cut for this >> purpose - but because of its delicious and nutritive flowers. It is a tree >> of abundant growth and, to the people of Central India, it provides their >> most important article of food as the flowers can be stored almost >> indefinitely. It is large and deciduous with a thick, grey bark, vertically >> cracked and wrinkled. Most of the leaves fall from February to April, and >> during that time the musky-scented flowers appear. They hang in close >> bunches of a dozen or so from the end of the gnarled, grey branchlets. The >> reddish young leaves with the flower clusters look very attractive. The >> flower stalks are green or pink and furry, about 5 cm. long. The >> plum-coloured calyx is also furry and divides into four or five lobes; >> within them lies the globular corolla, thick, juicy and creamy white. >> Through small eyelet holes at the top, the yellow anthers can be seen. The >> stamens are very short and adhere to the inner surface of the corolla; the >> pistil is a long, protruding green tongue. It is at night that the tree >> blooms and at dawn each short-lived flower falls to the ground. A couple of >> months after the flowering period the fruit opens. They are fleshy, green >> berries, quite large and containing from one to four shiny, brown seeds. >> >> Raman >> > > > > -- > Regards > > Dr Balkar Singh > Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology > Arya P G College, Panipat > Haryana-132103 > 09416262964 >
