Beautiful Shots Raman Ji On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:03 AM, raman <raman_arunacha...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Helicopter Tree is a slender, deciduous tree, with smooth, grey bark, > often bleaching to a silvery-white on the sunny side. Leaves are spirally > arranged, crowded near the ends of branches, up to 15 × 12 cm. Leaves are > ovate, often more or less deeply 3-lobed, dark green above, paler greyish > below, finely velvety on both surfaces, markedly 3-veined from the base. > Veins are yellowish; stalk up to 9 cm long. Flowers arise in compact heads, > yellowish-green, with an unpleasant smell. Fruit a woody nut with 2 long > thin wings, aiding wind dispersal. It is this winged, flying nut that gave > the tree its various common names. > > Raman > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
