Hi, This does not look like Sterculia guttata to me. Have this on my property at Shahapur and my photographs of this for comparison are available in the archives of this group. This could be some other [? exotic] species of Sterculia. Please check. With regards, Neil Soares.
--- On Wed, 11/21/12, raman <[email protected]> wrote: From: raman <[email protected]> Subject: [efloraofindia:138728] Trees of Lalbagh, Bangalore - Sterculia guttata, Roxb. <=> Spotted Sterculia Tree To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, November 21, 2012, 8:15 AM Spotted Sterculia is a tree with a straight trunk. Leaves are hairless above, velvety beneath, oblong-ovate acute or acuminate. Leaf base is rounded or nearly heart-shaped. Flower panicles are sparingly branched. Flower-buds are spherical. Flowers are chiefly male. Sepal tube 1/3 inches densely rusty hairy outside, glandular within, bell-shaped, divided into 5; segments broadly ovate-acute, ultimately reflexed, covered with long hairs. Flowers are yellow, with purple glands on the inside of the petals. Anthers 12, Ovary stalked, spherical, 3-5-lobed. Style curved, stigma 3-5 lobed. Follicles 1-5, size of a small apple, each about 3 inches, obovoid, covered with reddish down, smooth, pink within. Raman -- --
