Good evening Sir While PATOL (fruits) and PALTA (leaves) can be enjoyed in various ways PATOL TOLA is strictly No No ! For, PATOL TOLA (TOLA = picking up) in Bengali means leaving this beautiful world for ever!
And Tanay Ji informs the deadly poisonous contents of its roots in - https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/9LTzrdxD_6I/discussion. I have also heard it many a times. Searched and found these - - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3111694/ - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22545421 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20695728 These days i check both The Plant List and GRIN for any botanical name. Thank you very much. Regards, surajit On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Surajit ji > Perhaps it is better to ignore The Plant List totally for unresolved names > (as I have mentioned many times that it is their misfortune if they are not > able to understand a particular taxon). Even for plants which they claim to > have resolved, many of their conclusions or just laughable. In some cases > they list a name (combination) as accepted name but don't list basionym as > synonym. Many names are totally missing from the The Plant List. In other > cases some species are shown in one genus others in different one. Perhaps > I am tired of pointing out to them, so I simply ignore. > Trichosanthes dioica Roxb. is well established name: > > > http://www.phcogrev.com/article.asp?issn=0973-7847;year=2012;volume=6;issue=11;spage=61;epage=67;aulast=Kumar > > http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?314328 > > So just enjoy your PATOL > > It is better to compare GRIN and Flora of China entries with the Plant > List and if there is any conflict better follow the former. > > > -- > 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 Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:57 PM, surajit koley < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Good morning >> >> The Plant List is amazing! One of the most popular veg. in West Bengal is >> PATOL, yet The Plant List reckons it as an unresolved name - >> http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2433209 !!! Why? Is it >> because there is another *T. dioica* - >> http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2433208, and that too >> unresolved? >> >> Well, whatever the Latin name of this plant is it is PATOL for sure. You >> can eat it fried, make curry with potato - ALU-PATOL, prepare delicious >> PATOLER DOLMA. And if your are invited to any Bengali marriage ceremony the >> menu certainly will start with LUCHI (PURI) and PATOL-BHAJA. You can take >> breakfast with POLTA and MURI, POLTA is bitter tasted leaves of this plant >> fried with BESAN as TELEBHAJA !!! >> >> According to The Bengal Plants, Prain, p 517, :- >> >> *Trichosanthes dioica* >> Roxb<http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?314328>.; >> F.I. iii. 701; F. B. I. ii. 609; E.D.T. 586. >> In all the provinces. >> A rather extensive climber. *Hind.* PALWAL; *Beng.* PATOL; *Uriya* PATAL. >> >> The photos were recorded yesterday, a cultivated species in Hooghly. >> >> Thank you & Regards, >> >> surajit >> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > > > --
