Hi All I have never seen Pisonia alba with flowers. It is grown in widely Sri Lnka as a live fence tree and the leaves are a popular vegetable. Can you please forward an image of it.
Thanks and regards Sivaplan From: nmk....@gmail.com Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 17:55:41 +0530 Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:156128] Re: Pisonia alba flowering in Mumbai To: swamy.c...@gmail.com CC: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com I have never seen this tree flowering although very common. Thanks for sharing the flowers. On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Mahadeswara <swamy.c...@gmail.com> wrote: Thanks Viplav ji for posting the flowers of P.alba. Yes, it is very rare. This plant is very very common in Chennai also, rather very popular shrub / a small tree. Most commonly used for hedges (live fence) alternatively with red Acalypha, which gives a stunning effect to the onlookers. I have never seen it in flowering, though I was very keenly observing the plant in around Chennai for more than 20 years ! Though I knew that it would flower, I was not fortunate enough to see the plant in flowering in Chennai. Let me try out now in Mysore city. It is called sule sappu in Kannada and lachaikottei in Tamil. The leaves are used for cooking in Chennai. The leaves have medicinal properties too (elephantiasis). On Monday, May 27, 2013 11:20:02 PM UTC+5:30, Viplav Gangar wrote: An uncommon instance of Pisonia alba in flower. It is a very popular ornamental in Mumbai but is seldom seen flowering / fruiting. Clicked today morning in a traffic island in South Mumbai. It is intriguing to note that G. Carstensen, the Danish superintendent of the Victoria Gardens in Mumbai, remarked upon the distinctive appeal of this tree way back in 1890. In a meeting of the Bombay Natural History Society on 3rd December 1890, he gave a talk on the gardens of Bombay and had some flattering things to say about this tree: "The most striking tree of our gardens is perhaps the Lettuce-tree (Pisonia alba), which cannot fail to attract attention by the splendid effect of its bright yellow foliage, nowhere I believe so perfectly developed as in Bombay". - G. Carstensen, Bombay Gardens, p. 410, Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, Vol. V, 1890. Best wishes, Viplav -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Muthu Karthick, N Care Earth Trust#15, second main road,Thillai ganga nagar, Chennai - 600 061Mob: 0091 96268 33911 www.careearthtrust.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
