Nice to see tee flowers of this tree Sir. On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Mahadeswara <[email protected]> wrote:
> Beautiful set of photographs and reporting. > > > On Monday, June 4, 2012 7:40:35 AM UTC+5:30, Gurcharan Singh wrote: >> >> *Cordia dichotoma* Forster. f., Prodr. 18.1. 1876 >> >> A medium sized tree with minutely hairy branches; leaves obovate to >> elliptic-ovate, up to 12 cm long, base rounded or cuneate; petiole 2-5 cm >> long; flowers in dichotomously branched corymbose cymes, terminating >> branches; male flowers shallowly 5-lobed calyx; corolla campanulate, 5-6 mm >> long; bosexual flowers larger with calyx accrescent in fruit; fruit a >> drupe, up to 15 mm, yellowish red, with sticky pulp. >> >> Commonly planted in Delhi along roadsides. Photographed from Vikas Puri, >> New Delhi. >> >> >> -- >> 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://www.gurcharanfamily.com/> >> http://people.du.ac.in/~**singhg45/ <http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/> >> >> -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
