... being dioecious shrub, thus separate: male and female plants. Satish ji's photo shows male plant ... Balkar ji's and Neil ji's, female plants. Please correct me if wrong. Regards. Dinesh
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Neil Soares <drneilsoa...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > Dr.Balkar's shrub definitely looks like Securinega leucopyrus [Fluggea > leucopyrus], but if what Dr.Satish postulates is right, then his [female] > flowers are much smaller than mine [photograph 3]. > Sending a few of my photographs. > With regards, > Neil Soares. > > --- On *Wed, 8/31/11, Satish Phadke <drsmpha...@gmail.com>* wrote: > > > From: Satish Phadke <drsmpha...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:78872] Flueggea leucopyrus > To: "Balkar Arya" <balkara...@gmail.com> > Cc: "indiantreepix" <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> > Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2011, 12:38 PM > > > Are you sure it is the same species. The flowers look quite different. > On second thought it seems that the flowers in my pictures are mostly male > while in yours mostly female showing the stigmas and the ovaries below them. > Please share your thoughts. > Dr Phadke > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 6:25 AM, Balkar Arya > <balkara...@gmail.com<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=balkara...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > I am attaching my pics of *Flueggea leucopyrus* > Shot from Madlouda Panipat wher this plant was growing wild in roadside > area. With height of about 7-8 feet it was a spreading shrub. > Pls validate > On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Satish Phadke > <drsmpha...@gmail.com<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=drsmpha...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > *Flueggea leucopyrus* Syn. *Securinega leucopyrus*. > Family : Phyllanthaceae...Earlier Euphorbiaceae. > This shrub is very common on Vetal tekdi and surrounding areas Pune. > Many a times white fruits are observed but flowers are elusive. > Yesterday I found many shrubs in the area with profuse flowering. > Most of the flowers visible in my picture appear to be male flowers. > In earlier thread in Dinesh ji's pictures few female flowers can be > observed. > Dr Phadke Satish > > > > > -- > Regards > > Dr Balkar Singh > Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology > Arya P G College, Panipat > Haryana-132103 > 09416262964 > > >
