Dear Raman: Very nice pics and description... Ranjini also submitted very nice pictures of this ??same?? tree recently: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!searchin/indiantreepix/ranjini/indiantreepix/Z34bBsEli1s/h7e8aNnrKXsJ .... scroll down to get to Ranjini's pics... , the thread was started by AArti Kale...
enjoy usha di == On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Mahadeswara <[email protected]> wrote: > Very nice photographs and presentation. > > > On Monday, August 6, 2012 9:18:54 AM UTC+5:30, raman wrote: >> >> A small to medium rainforest tree growing to 25 metres tall and a >> diameter of 60 cm. The natural range is from the Clarence River (29° S) in >> New South Wales to tropical northern Australia. It is also found in New >> Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The Pink Flowered Doughwood is usually >> found in riverine rainforest areas. The trunk is almost white, of a doughy >> appearance, with a thick layer of soft corky dead bark. The trunk is >> slightly buttressed or flanged at the base. The opposite leaflets are in >> threes, mostly ovate. 6 to 13 cm long, tapering to a blunt point at the >> tip. This tree is the favoured food plant for the spectacular Ulysses >> butterfly, Papilio ulysses. Flowers form in a cyme or panicle springing >> from the old leaf axils. Individual flowers are 3 to 4 cm long, and form >> from January to March. The fruit is two to four cell dry cocci. They mature >> from July to December, spitting down one side exposing a single shiny black >> flattened seed, 4 to 5 cm long. Germination is unpredictable, starting >> within 30 days or taking several years. Soaking the seeds for several days >> appears to remove some of the germination inhibitors. >> >> Raman >> > -- > > > > -- Usha di =========== --
