Forwarding again for Id assistance please.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: greenearth <[email protected]> Date: 28 November 2012 13:34 Subject: [efloraofindia:139281] Maclura.c near Bangalore ? Pls ID this plant GE-28Nov2012-a To: [email protected] Hello Friends, Plant growing in wild, arid area outskirts of bangalore. Large shrub, about 9 ft high, arching stems, grey , with spines about 1 to 1.5" long. Leaves leathery glabrous, shiny. look like Ficus, flowers (male ) capitulum, flowering in November Plant with female flowers or fruit not seen. Thanks A.Sinha <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ZYIoGhxsPYg/ULXFGOg7GhI/AAAAAAAAANw/zAydThBKZp4/s1600/GE-Sp2-Sp%2BLvs.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'. --

