Manoj: What is a floating root? how doe it different from other roots any good english (for lay people kinda ) description? and line drawings?
thanks Usha di ==== On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:07 PM, surajit koley < [email protected]> wrote: > Sir, > > Will check the leaves, stem and roots on coming Sunday and report the same > by evening. > > Thank you, > > Regards, > > surajit > > > On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 10:58 PM, manoj chandran <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Good work. Only two possibilities are Coix gigantea and Coix aquatica. >> See whether the leaves are clothed with very dense glandular bristle like >> hairs on the upper surface and also see if the stems are succulent and have >> floating roots at the nodes. >> >> On Friday, October 26, 2012 10:39:23 PM UTC+5:30, surajitkoley wrote: >>> >>> Sir, >>> >>> Please do not laugh at me if i did make some silly mistake. I am not >>> used to it. I found a *Coix* very near my home, yesterday, and tried to >>> dissect it! >>> >>> Let me try to ID this species based on its spikelet only! >>> >>> Well, large wings on glumes of male spikelet = *C. gigantea*, but are >>> those wings large enough? I am not sure because i haven't seen *Coix >>> lacryma-jobi* yet! >>> >>> Species : *Coix gigantea*? >>> H & H : grass in roadside water logged ditch, about 6 feet high above >>> the water surface >>> Date : 25/10/12 >>> Place : Hooghly >>> >>> Thank you & Regards, >>> >>> surajit >>> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > -- > > > > -- Usha di =========== --
