Hi Shubhadaji have a laugh at my expense... but remember who taught you botany....... anyway I can not open your so called album so here is my report.
> we were 4..Gita,Ashok,Shubhada & me > > no wild flowers as no rain > but > we delighted in identifying trees from the bark and old leaves & fruits. > > There was teak with its skeleton of flower pannicle,Dhawda with leucoderma > like pathes on the bark,tiny star like fruits and typical silhouette, Bone > fire tree[Firmiana colorata] with powdery muddy brownish bark with new 3 > lobed leaves[it had also purple colour in them],ebony with its black bark > peeling off in rectangular pieces,Sandpaper tree with green bark,Ixora > greyish green bark with leaves[evergreen tree],Baratondi with fissured > bark,Dhaman with knotty bark,Khair with brown bark with rectangular strips > coming out[also had recurved spines],Wrightia tinctoria with light coloured > bark & thumb like patches[& had pods & black leaves on the floor],Holoptelia > with light grey bark and dried fruit[ like coin containing a seed in the > centre],Moi[Lannea coromandelica] with its silvery white bark and lenticele > spots and Ghost tree of course. > > For me the most exciting thing was finding a fairly young tree of Ficus > viren,It had bright bonze to red purple leaves with long petiole..the trunk > was streight thin silvery white and then Ashok noticed a single stalked > fig.!The tree was at a precarious place so difficult to observe closely but > still managed to scatch thr trunk:it had latex.It was then we met Santosh > Yadav who has done some work on Ficuses who confirmed the ID.We then showed > him an old tree of Ficus viren which had green leaves & he confirmed that > too.But the beauty was this tree had around it a Ficus which had rough > leaves with oblique base and that he told us was Ficus parasitica! My day > was made.Cheers Usha > Untitled photos of tree barks is a C.T. for my photographic skills and not > for ur knowledge. > cheers, > shubhada > > ----- Forwarded Message ---- > *From:* shubhada nikharge <shubhada_nikha...@yahoo.co.in> > *To:* Usha Desai <ushande...@gmail.com>; indiantreepix@googlegroups.com > *Cc:* Botany course <bnhsfieldbot...@yahoogroups.com> > *Sent:* Monday, 22 June, 2009 11:39:31 AM > *Subject:* Re: [indiantreepix:13612] Dried leaves of Wrightia tinctoria > > Usha, > here is a link to my pics of tree barks (untitled ). > > http://shubhadanikharge.myphotoalbum.com/view_album.php > > cheers, > shubhada > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Usha Desai <ushande...@gmail.com> > *To:* indiantreepix@googlegroups.com > *Sent:* Saturday, 20 June, 2009 10:16:06 PM > *Subject:* [indiantreepix:13612] Dried leaves of Wrightia tinctoria > > Friends > I would like you all to know that > the fallen dried leaves of Wrightia tinctoria > [Pala Indigo] turn very black blue. > I tried to soak them in water[even boil it] > but no indigo blue dye came out! > at present me & Shubhada are trying to > id trees just from dried leaves & bark. > It is quite fun > cheers Usha > > > > > ------------------------------ > Love Cricket? Check out live scores, photos, video highlights and more. Click > here <http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_cricket_2/*http://cricket.yahoo.com>. > > ------------------------------ > ICC World Twenty20 England '09 exclusively on YAHOO! > CRICKET<http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_cricket_3/*http://cricket.yahoo.com> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---