is the white pith edible for any animal ? usha di
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 11:17 PM, surajit koley < [email protected]> wrote: > Sir, > > This grass is also *Coix gigantea*, identified by Manoj Sir, also in > another post/thread - > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/DSlTblj9k0I/discussion. > > Thank you very much. > > Regards, > > surajit > > > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 9:54 PM, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: surajit koley <[email protected]> >> Date: 4 November 2012 18:19 >> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:137292] Re: Coix exploded from Hooghly >> To: manoj chandran <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> >> >> Good evening Sir, >> >> Visited the grass at the same place today. Could not find any hair on >> leaf surface and leaf base. However, the place is so densely populated by >> wild herbs and climbers it was not possible to see through them whether >> there was any floating root. It was also not possible to enter into the >> ditch. It appears to me that the stem is not succulent, attaching a picture >> (pic DSCN6667) of a stem, cut midway. >> >> I have uprooted one, might be a branch (pic DSCN6657). I give here the >> stats:- >> >> 1) no hair or glandular hair on leaf >> 2) looks like stem is not succulent >> 3) seems to be no floating roots >> >> Height : 5.5 feet, nodes 10, rooting at lower 4 nodes, diameter less than >> 1 cm, stem slightly compressed >> leaf : blade 67 cm x 4.7 cm + 14 cm sheath, upto node, covering the stem. >> upper surface (very) slightly rough, under surface glabrous >> >> It looks like that this grass is same *Coix gigantea*, recorded at >> another place, and have been identified by you in another post - >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/DSlTblj9k0I/discussion. >> In such case i would like to add that this grass is very common here, >> growing on roadside, ditches, uncultivated lands, low land beside rail >> tracks and in wasteplace. >> >> Thank you very much, >> >> 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 >>>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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 2000 members & >> 1,37,000 messages on 31/10/12) or Efloraofindia website: >> https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database >> of more than 7500 species). >> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >> India'. >> >> > -- > > > > -- Usha di =========== --
