spectacular flowers and buds usha di On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Satish Chile <[email protected]> wrote:
> Informative. > > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 3:06 PM, raman <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Wild Guava is a medium sized deciduous tree, up to 20 m tall, the leaves >> of which turn red in the cold season. It is the Kumbhi of Sanskrit writers, >> and appear to have been so named on account of the hollow on the top of the >> fruit giving it somewhat the appearance of a water-pot. Wild pigs are very >> fond of the bark, and that it is used by hunters to attract them. An >> astringent gum exudes from the fruit and stem, and the bark is made into >> coarse cordage. The Tamil name Puta-tanni-maram signifies †water- >> bark-tree,†in allusion to the exudation trickling down the bark in dry >> weather. Bark surface flaking in thin strips, fissured, dark grey; crown >> spreading. Leaves arranged spirally, often clustered at the apices of >> twigs, simple, broadly obovate, tapering at base, margin toothed, stipules >> small, caducous. Flowers in an erect raceme at the end of branches. Flowers >> are large, white. Sepals are 4, petals 4, free. Stamens are many, connate >> at base; disk annular; ovary inferior, 4-5-locular with many ovules in 2 >> rows per cell, style 1. Fruit a large, many-seeded drupe, globose to >> depressed globose, crowned by the persistent sepals. Seedling with hypogeal >> germination; cotyledons absent (seed containing a swollen hypocotyl); shoot >> with scales at the first few nodes. >> >> Raman >> > > > > -- > Dr. Satish Kumar Chile > -- Usha di ===========
