Really good set of photographs. Thanks for sharing Raman ji
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Balkar Singh <balkara...@gmail.com> wrote: > Beautiful Shots Raman Ji You have shown many Palms Today. Thanks for the > great Series > > > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:18 PM, raman <raman_arunacha...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> This is the palm which produces to popular betel-nut or supari, which is >> an essential ingradient of paan. It is a medium-sized tree growing to 20 m >> tall, with a trunk 20-30 cm in diameter. The leaves are 1.5-2 m long, >> pinnate, with numerous, crowded leaflets. It is grown for its economically >> important seed crop, the Betel nut. The seed contains alkaloids such as >> arecaine and arecoline, which when chewed is intoxicating and is also >> slightly addictive. Flowers are unisexual, with both male and >> female  flowers borne in the same inflorescence. >> Inflorescences are crowded, much-branched panicles borne below the >> leaves. Each terminal branch has a few female >> flowers borne at the base and numerous male flowers extending >> from there out to the branch tip. Flowers of both sexes have >> six tepals, are stalkless, creamy-white, fragrant; >> male flowers are minute, deciduous,  have six stamens, >> arrowhead-shaped anthers, rudimentary ovary; female  >> flowers are larger (1.2–2 cm long), with >> six small sterile stamens and a  three-celled ovary >> bearing a  triangular stigma with three points at the  >> apex. Fibrous, ovoid fruits, >> yellow to orange or red when ripe, contain the betel nut. >> >> Raman >> > > > > -- > Regards > > Dr Balkar Singh > Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology > Arya P G College, Panipat > Haryana-132103 > 09416262964 >
