Thanks dear Mr. Porcher for useful information
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:45 AM, OZmic <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > It is hard to choose where to start for there is not really a beginning > and no end in sight. Chinese people have a saying "Every long journey > starts with a tiny step". > So here is first what has been the big revelation for me. Hidden behind > some links in one of Dinesh's postings was what some of you had proposed / > wished for and that I was also waiting for. The initial building of an > amazing database called "Names of Plants in India". It does not display the > basic info for such a site so a review cannot yet be written about it. I > have written one nevertheless that will appear online when I have all the > details. It is however fully operational and can be used. I warmly invite > you to consult it ... and yes it has got photos! The URL is < > https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/ >. > > Now just a couple of entries calling for further feedback from you all. > We all know that the name "Mosambi" is used for other taxa (plants). We > will come back to it when we treat these species. I believe the following > to be the original vernacular. > > *Citrus* × *sinensis *(L.) Osbeck 'Mosambi' > BENGALI : মোসাম্বি (Mōsāmbi). > ENGLISH : Mosambi orange, Mosambique orange. > HINDI : मौसम्बी Mausambee, मोसम्बी Mōsambī , मोसाम्बी Mōsāmbī, > मोज़ाम्बि Mōzāmbi > KANNADA : ಮೊಸಂಬಿ ಹಣ್ಣು Mosambi hannu ? > MARATHI : मोसंबी Mosambi. > TAMIL : சாத்துக்குடி Cāttukkuṭi ? > TELUGU : బత్తాయి పండు Battāyi paṇḍu. > "Fruit medium-large, slightly oblate to globose or broadly obovoid; > areolar ring regularly shallow; moderately seedy. Color light yellow to > pale orange at maturity. Rind medium-thick; surface moderately to roughly > pebbled, and faintly striped with narrow, longitudinal grooves and > ridges. Flesh color straw-yellow; somewhat firm, juicy; flavor insipid > because of very low acidity. Early in maturity. > This very distinctive variety is of unknown origin, but the name, of > which there are numerous spellings, suggests that it was taken from > Mozambique, East Africa, to India, presumably by the Portuguese. The > brown color of the chalazal spot indicates that it does not belong to the > sugar orange group, as some have assumed, but that it is a low acid orange, > the acidity of which is further reduced by the Indian climate and the rough > lemon rootstock on which it is grown. > Mosambi is highly popular in central India and is probably the most > important orange variety of that country. According to Gandhi (1956), it > is grown principally in the Bombay Deccan where total plantings were > reported to be about 20,000 acres."R. W. Hodgson in Chapter 4 of > Horticultutal Varieties of Citrus. > > What we need now is validation of those names - spelling... and a photo or > two, and some clarification. > If this is the Batavian orange, Cattukkuti orange, Loose-jacket orange, > Sylhet orange, can it be బత్తాయి Battāyi, బత్తాయి నరింమ్జాపండు (Battāyi > narimmjāpaṇḍu) Battāyi nāriṃzapaṇḍu ? We know it is not sweet but is it > bitter at all ? could it be called a mandarine ? > > *Citrus* × *sinensis *(L.) Osbeck 'Malta' > ENGLISH : Malta orange. > HINDI : माल्टा Malta (mālṭā). -> correct spelling ? > > It may be difficult to find all these names in dictionaries but there is > enough expertise in the group to work out what is correct and to validate > it. > Thanks
