Sir, Our helping hands confirm today that their cows eat this grass (leaves). They also tell me that they call this grass GARGORI in Bengali. Though *Coix lacryma-jobi* is known as GARGORI in Bengali, i think it is a general term used for similar looking grasses.
Thank you, Regards, surajit On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 6:37 PM, surajit koley < [email protected]> wrote: > Sir, > > I will try to find it out, i remember this difference with *Chionachne*. > > Thank you, > > Regards, > > surajit > > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:18 AM, manoj chandran <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Coix is supposed to be a good fodder grass. Kindly feed the leaves/stem >> to cattle to check its palatibility. >> >> On Thursday, November 8, 2012 6:07:54 PM UTC+5:30, Ushadi wrote: >>> >>> 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<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<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<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<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<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/<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 >>> =========== >>> >>> > --
