Yes, after seeing the fruits I realized it is not Diospyros. Navendu should be right...
Regards Vijayasankar Raman National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:46 PM, navendu page <navendu.p...@gmail.com>wrote: > Dimorphocalyx beddomei > > Navendu > > > On 6 August 2012 11:18, Muthu Karthick <nmk....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear sir, >> The fruits are c.3cm across. I have attached the pictures of fruits here. >> >> >> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:02 AM, jmgarg1 <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >>> >>> Some earlier relevant feedback: >>> >>> “It is a *Diospyros* species. >>> >>> Regards >>> Vijayasankar Raman” >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: Muthu Karthick <nmk....@gmail.com> >>> Date: 26 July 2012 14:51 >>> Subject: [efloraofindia:122781] Tree for identification 260712MK01 >>> To: efloraofindia <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> >>> >>> >>> Dear all, >>> Please help me to identify this tree found in rain forests of Vaalparai >>> in Western Ghats. I could locate proper flowers of this. and the winged >>> fruits measures up to 4cm across. Leaves about 15cm longer. >>> Could this be any Dipterocarp? >>> >>> Place: vaalparai, TN >>> Date: 13 July 2012 >>> Alt.: 950 m asl >>> >>> Habitat: roadside near rain forest >>> >>> -- >>> Muthu Karthick, N >>> Care Earth Trust >>> #15, second main road, >>> Thillai ganga nagar, >>> Chennai - 600 061 >>> Mob: 0091 96268 33911 >>> www.careearthtrust.org >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 1900 members >>> & 1,23,300 messages on 31/7/12) or Efloraofindia website: >>> https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database >>> of more than 7000 species). >>> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >>> India'. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Muthu Karthick, N >> Care Earth Trust >> #15, second main road, >> Thillai ganga nagar, >> Chennai - 600 061 >> Mob: 0091 96268 33911 >> www.careearthtrust.org >> >> > > > -- > Navendu Page > > PhD student > Kartik Shanker's Lab > Center for Ecological Sciences > Indian Institute of Science > Bangalore - 560012 > Ph: +91 9611053510 > > > --
