Forwarding again for any assistance in the matter please.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shrikant Ingalhalikar <[email protected]> Date: 29 December 2011 19:18 Subject: [efloraindia:101118] Flower-pecker and Loranthaceae Association 29122011 SI To: indiantreepix <[email protected]> Dear All and Giby ji with a special request. It is known that Flower-peckers Dicaeum sp. pollinate flowers of Loranthaceae. However I have never seen them 'pecking' at flowers as such. It is said that red tips of corolla lobes of unopened flowers appear to them as berries which lures them to 'peck' at the tip and which causes flowers to 'explode' thus smearing the pollen on their forehead. I am also unaware of any Loranthaceae flowers with a red tip mimicking as a berry. I would welcome members to post photographs or observations in this respect. Regards, Shrikant Ingalhalikar 12 Varshanand Society Anandnagar Sinhagad Road Pune 411 051. www.idsahyadri.com Tel 91 20 2435 0765. Fax 91 20 2438 9190. <http://sigads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/click_nx.ads/www.rediffmail.com/signatureline.htm@Middle?> Follow *Rediff Deal ho jaye!<http://track.rediff.com/click?url=___http://dealhojaye.rediff.com?sc_cid=rediffmailsignature___&cmp=signature&lnk=rediffmailsignature&newservice=deals> * to get exciting offers in your city everyday. -- 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 1900 members & 1,23,300 messages on 31/7/12) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 7000 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. --
