Forwarding again for any assistance in the matter please.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <[email protected]> Date: 11 March 2012 06:43 Subject: [efloraofindia:110243] Indian names of an orange To: [email protected] Dear all, Could you please supply me with various Indian names, preferably in original scripts, for this orange / mandarin. Thanks. Michel *Citrus poonensis* hort. ex Tanaka SYNONYM(S): *Citrus poonensis* Osbeck ?, *Citrus reticulata* Blanco '*Oneco *' ?* Citrus reticulata* Blanco '*Poongan*' , *Citrus reticulata* Blanco '*Ponkan*', *Citrus reticulata* Blanco '*Suntara*' , *Citrus reticulata * Blanco var. *poonensis* (Hayata) H. H. Hu CHINESE : Mi gan (Zhangzhou), *椪柑* *Peng gan*, 椪 Pon (Guangdong), 椪柑 Peng gan (Taiwan), Lu gan (Zhangzhou, Fujian) , Lu gan (Taiwan), Lu (Hong Kong, Taiwan), Mei gan (Hunan province), Bai ju (Yunnan, Jianshui of Rennan province), Meng ban ju (Xisongbanna of Rennan province) , Mi tong gan, 有柑 You ga (Taiwan). ENGLISH : Batangas mandarin, Chinese honey orange, Ponkan mandarin, Poona orange, Suntara mandarin,Suntara orange, *Lu tangerine*. FRENCH : Mandarine Ponkan, Mandarine Ponkan de Formose, Mandarine Suntara, Mandarine Suntara de l'Inde. HINDI : Nagpur suntara, Nangpur suntara. JAPANESE : ポンカン Ponkan, 椪柑 Ponkan. TAGALOG : Batangas. VIETNAMESE : Cam ngọt Trung Quốc. Bolded names are the preferred names. See our note on *Jiao* & *Lu mandarins * <http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Note_Lu&Jiao_mand.html>. Strangely, given that this is a well known Chinese cultivar, the latest taxonomy appears to favour the botanical *Citrus reticulata* Blanco '* Ponkan*' which is base on the romanised Japanese name. It does however, by association, link it to the Hindi name "Suntara". We still have to determine if "Suntara" = "Nagpur suntara". After the Chinese brainstorm we have an Indian brainstorm to initiate. That should give us a number of Indian names. Photo close-ups of fruit, inside and outside views. -- 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 1820 members & 1,10,000 messages on 29/2/12) 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'.
