Thanks Amar ji for the response. And, please don't feel sorry. I have done that several times :) I just wanted to help with the link. btw, I forgot to tell you that the flower picture is really nice!
Regards Vijayasankar Raman National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Amar Mainkar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Vijayasankar, > > Thank you for the quick ID. I know that there should be only one ID > request in one mail, but somehow, I thought I was shooting the leaves of > the plant *Hibiscus schizopetalus* of Malvaceae to which the flower > belongs but got jumbled up as the plants were growing in a dense cover and > shot leaves of another plant as you have pointed out. I am sorry for this > error on my part, I'll be more careful from now on. > > Thanks and regards, > > Amar > > On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Vijayasankar <[email protected]>wrote: > >> The flower is of *Hibiscus schizopetalus* of Malvaceae. And the second >> picture is of *Terminalia catappa* (Combretaceae). >> You can visit >> https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/posting-guidelines for >> posting instructions. >> >> Regards >> >> Vijayasankar Raman >> National Center for Natural Products Research >> University of Mississippi >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Amar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> I have attached two crops of the flowers and leaves of a tree. Please >>> let me know which flower it could be. The following information is >>> available. >>> >>> >>> Date/Time- 2012-06-16 / 11:00hrs >>> >>> Location- Lonavala in Pune District of Maharashtra >>> >>> Habitat- Wild >>> >>> Plant Habit- Had grown to be a large tree >>> >>> Height - Around 5 metres >>> >>> Leaves - Broad, around 15-18 cm or even more >>> >>> Flowers - Red, the stamens protrude far out of the whorl, like in a >>> shoeflower (Pic attached) >>> >>> Fruits - None visible or immediately obvious >>> >>> >>> I am sorry the pic of the leaves is a bit blurred, I could not steady my >>> cam in the wind. An important thing is that this tree was growing on the >>> slopes of the Western Ghats in Maharashtra. >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> >>> Amar >>> >> >> >
