Ushadi Perhaps answer may be linked here: "The pith in the stems is used as tinder, and the twigs also make an inextinguishable slow-match."
http://www.prota4u.org/protav8.asp?h=M4&t=Leptadenia,pyrotechnica&p=Leptadenia+pyrotechnica Or here "the specific epithet pyrotechnica .....was given as Forsskal noticed that Arabs were using fibres of its stem to produce fire using stone and flint" http://books.google.co.in/books?id=8j0jK23DkfsC&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35&dq=leptadenia+pyrotechnica+origin+of+epithet+pyrotechnica&source=bl&ots=A7lZQ7E51k&sig=yixD4EUWzTMWCWCrDE-L68Ed1BQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=awaIUNHIEYrBigL5yoCgBg&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=leptadenia%20pyrotechnica%20origin%20of%20epithet%20pyrotechnica&f=false -- 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:09 AM, ushadi Micromini <[email protected] > wrote: > I wonder why pyrotechnica????? > > its used for roofs of huts, > if it combusts spontaneously it could not have been useful for thatching... > so makes me wonder.... > ??? > > Usha di > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I hope Leptadaenia pyrotechnica (Asclepiadaceae, now Apocynaceae). >> >> -- >> 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> >> >> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Prashant Awale <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Beautiful photographs. Thanks Renee ji for sharing. >>> Regards >>> Prashant >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 10:11 PM, renee vyas Vyas >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Dear Friends, >>>> >>>> Please help to identify this small shrub.....I found it flowering in >>>> Tal Chappar wildlife Sanctuary in Churu district of Rajasthan between >>>> Ratangarh & Sujjangarh about 220 km from Jaipur. This area is located on >>>> the fringe of the Great Indian Desert, famous for large number of Black >>>> Bucks, has sandy saline soil with open grassland scattered with Acasia >>>> nilotica, Prosopis cineraria, Parkinsonia aculeata, Capparis decidua etc. >>>> >>>> With Regards, >>>> >>>> Renee >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Usha di > =========== > > --
