Okay, so its Hardwickia binata! We'll keep the droplet phenomenon aside for a while. There were certainly no gutation-like drops on leaves. What we felt was the subjective feeling of tiniest droplets falling on us on quite a few occasions. It was certainly not raining.
As far as the flowers, do let me know when is the flowering season. As I've already said, these trees are out of town, so I don't go there otherwise. I would love to get some pics for us, however! Thanks again :-) On 4/27/12, Ganesh Dhamodkar <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > > > Here is another request ID from me. This tree has a quite interesting > feature; one can feel tiny water droplets over our skin when we stand below > it. The droplets are so tiny that they can't be seen, but there's > certainly > a feeling of droplets. > > > > These trees are planted along the Nagpur-Amravati highway. These grow as a > big tree; a full-size tree photo is attached alongwith. The leaves look > bi-lobed like the leaves that we offer on Vijayadashmi, but here they are a > bit smaller in size and more delicate. The current season seems to be the > season of new leaves. Most of the trees were still without leaves; this > one > photographed tree had these new delicate leaves. There seemed to be a > flattened, dry, pod-like structures at the top; may be remnant from the > last > season, but it was too high to see or shoot properly; can't say sure about > it. > > > > Can you please identify this for me? I wanted to at least make a simple > Google search, but I don't even know with what name shall I search it! > > > > Thank you in advance. > > > > Ganesh > > (Tweet me at @ganeshdhamodkar <http://twitter.com/ganeshdhamodkar> ) > >
