Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. Some earlier relevant feedback:
Please check Flacourtia jangomas. Nice capture. Regards Prasad Thanks for the reply. It surely looks like Flacourtia, which is not well known to me. I will check it further, and we can wait for more inputs. Pani-amla is again one of those wonderful fruits, becoming unknown and unavailable to city people. A.Sinha Flacourtia jangomas or F. indica ?? Hello Friends, Prasad-ji, After checking as per Prasad-jis pointer to Flacourtia jangomas, I think this may be Flacourtia indica, not jangomas. It also matches with the Wiki image, for indica 1. The leaves are mostly oblong/elliptic, with obtuse not acute or acuminate apex, seem more stiffly coriaceous compared to the shiny leaves of jangomas. 2. The immature fruit size was only 3.5 mm long., 3. The style branches are about one-third as long as the globose base ( ovary ?), As per efloras of China: F.jangomas : *Pistillate flowers: ovary bottle-shaped to globose, 2-3 mm; styles 4-6, united into a distinct column ca. 1 mm, not or slightly free at their apices; ... Fruit brownish red or purple,....1.5-2.5 cm in diam.,* *F.indica* *Pistillate flowers: ovary globose, placentas 5 or 6; styles 5 or 6, united only at base, radiating, 1-2 mm, slender. Fruit dull to blackish red, globose, 8-10 mm in diam* Experts may please validate and if a key to Indian species can be shared that would be very helpful. Thanks and regards, A.Sinha ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: greenearth <[email protected]> Date: 28 November 2012 14:50 Subject: [efloraofindia:139286] Spiny plant, dioecious - Pls ID GE-28Nov2012-b To: [email protected] Hello Friends Another spinous plant , growing in the wild, outskirts of bangalore: Shrubs 4 to 6 ft height, fruiting and flowering in November. The 1st and 2nd images are of two different plants , very similar , bearing separately male and female flowers but there might have been one male plant also having fruit. The fruit turns black on ripening; it has 3 or 4 seeds. Thanks in advance for any help in identification. A.Sinha <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-v4Baiw2Pj0g/ULXVgZpxBgI/AAAAAAAAAOM/IaRWOheAnUs/s1600/GE-Sp-FemFlr%2BFrt.jpg> <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-qqkmXj8SUSM/ULXV5bbmlXI/AAAAAAAAAOU/SUe-TKV6zgk/s1600/GE-Sp-MaleFlr.jpg> <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-nW2B2EKVJBE/ULXXNO1o_RI/AAAAAAAAAOk/64oU67aEPK0/s1600/GE-Sp-Sps.jpg> -- -- 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 2015 members & 1,39,500 messages on 30/11/12) 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'. --
