If the leaflet has waxy coating according to me the droplets won't stay on leaf, instead will fall down. Since they will fall as soon as formed will automatically be smaller in size. Similarly since more stomata are on the lower surface of leaf, and it being cooler than upper surface water droplets might be getting formed. And with waxy leadlet and being on lowerside the droplets by force of gravity might be falling off. The way I said I am not a botanist, but have experienced it under cashew tree too. And have heard occuring in other plants also. Madhuri Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone from !DEA
-----Original Message----- From: Vijayasankar <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:01:27 To: <[email protected]> Cc: Ganesh Dhamodkar<[email protected]>; Efloraindia<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:114847] Re: Request ID GD 27042012 But Ganesh ji has said "....one can feel tiny water droplets over our skin when we stand below it..." I assume that he talks about droplets on our skin, and not on the leaf... Regards Vijayasankar Raman National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Madhuri Pejaver <[email protected]>wrote: > ** > Rhe Botanists will be able to explain better. But according to me the > phenomenon is called as gutation. In this the water vapour which comes out > of leaf surface in the process of transpiration. Forms waterdroplets due to > change in temp. > Madhuri > Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone from !DEA > ------------------------------ > *From: * Ganesh Dhamodkar <[email protected]> > *Sender: * [email protected] > *Date: *Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:17:55 -0700 (PDT) > *To: *<[email protected]> > *Subject: *[efloraofindia:114838] Re: Request ID GD 27042012 > > Thanks! Indeed looks like that! What about the droplet phenomenon? That > was my first introduction to the tree; someone told me about the droplets. > After that, I myself tried it and experienced it too. If you stand beneath > it for about a minute you are sure to get a couple of tiny drops (at least > in this season). May be a rather common phenomenon associated with some > other trees too; can someone tell me about it? Wish I could verify the > local name it from someone locally, but these are planted quite out of town! > > On Friday, 27 April 2012 19:44:56 UTC+5:30, Ganesh Dhamodkar 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>) >> >
