Tanay and Surajit: I'll add to your confusion:) *Plumeria rubra* in south 24 paraganas are called Kath-champa.... and people will swear that that's what the correct name is!!!! while folks at KolBotG, esp their gardeners will call it (authoritatively) that its called Garuda-champa because one of their old bosses who wrote a book used to call it that!!! Bojo tthela...
and Gualncha/Gulancha is Guduchi, or *Tinospora cordifolia*, there is regular gulancha and then there is padma gulancha the latter has a very knobby surface and both are sold green or fresh by Ayurvedic shops and street vendors who sell the navagraha mula/roots ... I have seen some well organized shop(s) with big painted advertisement tin boards on railway platforms of local trains in some towns in south 24 paraganas... this padma gulancha comes from deep recesses of the sunderbans they tell me... well, interesting, ain't it? cheers usha di ====== On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:23 AM, surajit koley < [email protected]> wrote: > Oh! My beloved Tanay Ji, what i want to tell you is that these Bengali > names of various plants differ regionally. Take the case of *Plumeria > rubra*, we call it GULANCHA here, but one of my friends from North Bengal > tells me that they call it KATH-GOLAP. > > Regards, > > surajit > > > On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Tanay Bose <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Surajit Ji. >> I am very bad in common names hence have no idea about them. >> Tanay >> >> On 3 May 2012 11:22, surajit koley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Thank you Tanay Ji for the ID. Everybody here call this tree as PAKUR in >>> Bengali, whereas the scientific name given for the PAKUR in the book >>> "Plants Group" and also at >>> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/indiantreepix/ficus$20infectoria/indiantreepix/lfUcX6mGFK4/84WYKEU1wngJ >>> is >>> *Ficus infectoria* ! >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> surajit >>> >>> >>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Tanay Bose <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Surajit Da. >>>> I think this is Ficus rumphii. >>>> Tanay >>>> >>>> On 3 May 2012 10:58, surajit koley <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> Sir / Madam, >>>>> >>>>> Found this very very big tree on roadside. Is this also *Ficus rumphii >>>>> * ? >>>>> >>>>> Species : UNKNOWN >>>>> Habit & Habitat : tree, very big, roadside >>>>> Date : 03-05-12, 9.52 a.m. >>>>> Place : Gobra (Hooghly), WB >>>>> >>>>> Thank you & Regards, >>>>> >>>>> Surajit Koley >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> *Tanay Bose* >>>> Research & Teaching Assistant. >>>> Department of Botany. >>>> University of British Columbia . >>>> 6270 University Blvd. >>>> Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada) >>>> Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile) >>>> 604-822-2019 (Lab) >>>> 604-822-6089 (Fax) >>>> [email protected] <[email protected]> >>>> *Webpages:* >>>> UBC Botany , Berbee Lab <http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/mberbee.html> >>>> UBC Botany, People <http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/gradstud.html> >>>> EfloraofIndia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> *Tanay Bose* >> Research & Teaching Assistant. >> Department of Botany. >> University of British Columbia . >> 6270 University Blvd. >> Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada) >> Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile) >> 604-822-2019 (Lab) >> 604-822-6089 (Fax) >> [email protected] <[email protected]> >> *Webpages:* >> UBC Botany , Berbee Lab <http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/mberbee.html> >> UBC Botany, People <http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/gradstud.html> >> EfloraofIndia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> >> >> >> > -- Usha di ===========
