Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: greenearth <[email protected]> Date: 8 May 2012 21:35 Subject: [efloraofindia:115965] Which Grewia ? -- AS_080512 To: [email protected] Please help ID the Grewia species: shrub found growing wild in outskirts of Chennai: A medium sized straggling shrub, stems about 3 to 4 m long, growing along a storm water ditch. Maybe serrulata, but am not sure if the fruit and flower match. Thanks. A.Sinha *Grewia sp* <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ahSnWnQzilw/T6lD7_PE-II/AAAAAAAAAIA/4cFk6CLejK8/s1600/AS-Grewia.Q.Fl.jpg> <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ixVjtNCkZUo/T6lDIkjYRwI/AAAAAAAAAH4/bgSyUJCelns/s1600/AS-Grewia.Q.LInfl.jpg> Leaves oblong / lanceolate, 4 to 6” long, margin non-uniformly serrulate 3 basal veins,Inflorescence axillary cymes; The flowers 1.5 to 2” wide , white with greenish tinge in stamens and stigma, sepals 1.5 cm, deeply furrowed and light green outside; white glabrous inside, bent with knee ; petals about a third as long as sepals, not bent , having prominent ovate gland at base; fruit brownish yellow glabrous with few hairs, an obscurely bi-lobed drupe with fibrous rind.and two 'stones' -- With regards, J.M.Garg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1860 members & 1,15,000 messages on 30/4/12) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 6500 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'.
