Thanks for this post of M.elleryana pictures & info,Raman ji! It should be the same tree i think?? I have seen only one tree in Lalbagh.. Regards
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:24 AM, ushadi Micromini <microminipho...@gmail.com > wrote: > Dear Raman: Very nice pics and description... > Ranjini also submitted very nice pictures of this ??same?? tree recently: > https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!searchin/indiantreepix/ranjini/indiantreepix/Z34bBsEli1s/h7e8aNnrKXsJ > .... scroll down to get to Ranjini's pics... , the thread was started by > AArti Kale... > > enjoy > usha di > == > > > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Mahadeswara <swamy.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Very nice photographs and presentation. >> >> >> On Monday, August 6, 2012 9:18:54 AM UTC+5:30, raman wrote: >>> >>> A small to medium rainforest tree growing to 25 metres tall and a >>> diameter of 60 cm. The natural range is from the Clarence River (29° S) in >>> New South Wales to tropical northern Australia. It is also found in New >>> Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The Pink Flowered Doughwood is usually >>> found in riverine rainforest areas. The trunk is almost white, of a doughy >>> appearance, with a thick layer of soft corky dead bark. The trunk is >>> slightly buttressed or flanged at the base. The opposite leaflets are in >>> threes, mostly ovate. 6 to 13 cm long, tapering to a blunt point at the >>> tip. This tree is the favoured food plant for the spectacular Ulysses >>> butterfly, Papilio ulysses. Flowers form in a cyme or panicle springing >>> from the old leaf axils. Individual flowers are 3 to 4 cm long, and form >>> from January to March. The fruit is two to four cell dry cocci. They mature >>> from July to December, spitting down one side exposing a single shiny black >>> flattened seed, 4 to 5 cm long. Germination is unpredictable, starting >>> within 30 days or taking several years. Soaking the seeds for several days >>> appears to remove some of the germination inhibitors. >>> >>> Raman >>> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Usha di > =========== > > --
