Oops, sorry...I think I got it wrong :( It could be due to transpiration of water from leaves, as Madhuri ji said. But it is a common process for most of the tropical plants, I think. During transpiration the (excess?) water in the leaves is expelled or evaporated through the stomata. Depend on the surrounding weather condition, the size of water droplets may vary, I think. Transpiration helps the plant get cooled. Ref.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpiration
Regards Vijayasankar Raman National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Ganesh Dhamodkar < [email protected]> wrote: > 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> ) > > > > >
