To All Happy to know that the real debate for my post. I want to clear there are two silk cotton trees. One is Ceiba pentandra which has smooth, green bark with white flowers usually abundant in Tamilnadu, also cultivated ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceiba_pentandra) Another is Bombax malabarica which has thorny bark and red flowers used in Ayurveda usually abundant in many parts of north India. Some tree may not have thorns. However, I never seen such a thorn less tree.( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombax_malabaricum)
Regards On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Pankaj Oudhia <[email protected]>wrote: > Next week I will try to visit and interact the people experiencing it. I > am confident that video recording will help you to convince with this > logic. > > By the way my previous video was on Plants "Not preferred" by Hanuman > Langur. I hope you have noted the sense of "Not Preferred." > > regards > > Pankaj Oudhia > > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I dont think thorns are issue. They have thick skin. I have seen >> Langurs sitting on Zizyphus so often. They have worst thorns. >> Pankaj >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 4:25 PM, ushadi Micromini >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Pankaj from HK: >> > appreciate a peer reviewed paper link.... and the photo speaks ... >> > your point well made... >> > >> > but even in this pic even in its high res version) could not see if the >> > branches the langurs were sitting on had the sharp short thorns....??? >> > >> > in kolkata we have seen many b ceiba where the trees dont have thorns >> on the >> > trunk, but in branches plenty... and in one tree ... none atall... >> > >> > so may be langurs could sit on them!!! ha ha >> > Usha di >> > ===== >> > >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Dr Pankaj Kumar < >> [email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Dear Oudhia sir >> >> Please dont mind my writing this. But, I imagine why Langurs will NOT >> LIKE >> >> Bombax ceiba. >> >> Langurs certainly like the fruits and there have been evidences of it. >> >> http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1896/0898-6207.21.1.171 >> >> Check the link and also the image in the link. >> >> Regards >> >> Pankaj >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Friday, 16 March 2012 05:51:49 UTC+8, rkmkbk wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Is there any plant which monkeys dislike? OR doesn't touch? or hates >> and >> >>> never comes near of that plant? >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Usha di >> > =========== >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> ********************************************************************** >> "Taxonomists getting Extinct and Species Data Deficient !!" >> >> >> Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) >> Conservation Officer >> >> Office: >> Orchid Conservation Section >> Flora Conservation Department >> Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG) Corporation >> Lam Kam Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong. >> >> Residence: >> 36c, Ng Tung Chai, Lam Tseun >> Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong. >> >> email: [email protected] >> [email protected] >> [email protected] >> Phone: +852 2483 7128 (office - 8:30am to 5:30pm) >> +852 9436 6251 (mobile) >> > >
