Mind blowing shots Raman Ji Regards
prasad On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:31 PM, raman <raman_arunacha...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Native to South India and Srilanka, Talipot Palm is one of the largest > palms in the world; individual specimens have reached heights of up to 25 > m, with stems up to 1.3 m in diameter. It is a fan palm with large palmate > leaves up to 5 m in diameter, with a petiole up to 4 m, and up to 130 > leaflets. The Talipot palm bears the largest inflorescence of any plant, > 6-8 m long, consisting of one to several million small flowers borne on a > branched stalk that forms at the top of the trunk. The Talipot palm is > monocarpic, flowering only once, when it is 30 to 80 years old. It takes > about a year for the fruit to mature, producing thousands of round > yellow-green fruit 3-4 cm diameter, containing a single seed. The plant > dies after fruiting. The Talipot palm is cultivated throughout southeast > Asia, north to southern China. Historically, the leaves were written upon > in various Southeast Asian cultures using an iron stylus to create palm > leaf manuscripts. The leaves are also used for thatching, and the sap is > tapped to make palm wine. > > Raman > -- Prasad Kumar Dash Ecologist, Odisha, India email: prasad.dash2...@gmail.com ph. 09437444241
