So you mean to say the original post is of *Magnolia grandiflora* and that posted by Neil ji is *Michelia doltsop*a??
Dr Satish Phadke On 6 March 2014 09:49, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Dr. Panda. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Subhasis Panda <[email protected]> > Date: 6 March 2014 08:29 > Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:183104] Magnolia grandiflora > To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> > > > Garg Ji > Thank You for your mail with Michelia doltsopa plant. > Photographs are really good to identify it. > Following is the identification kids: > 1. Nepalese call it as "Sweto-Chanp"--now valley with its white flowers > 2. tall Trees up to 20 meter. > 3. bar: dark grey > 4. Flowers axillary, faintly scented, white, c. 10-14 cm across when fully > open > 5. perianths parts---approx. 12, obovate to spatulate > > Flowering: Late February to April > Distribution in India: Eastern Himalaya (Darjeeling, Sikkim, Arunachal > Pradesh) and NE States (Meghalaya, Manipur & NAGALAND). > Altitudinal ranges: 1400-2600 meter > > Taxonomic identity: > Michelia doltsopa Buch.-Ham. ex DC., Syst. Nat. 1: 448. 1818 (Correct > Name). > Synonyms: Michelia excelsa Wall.; Michelia excelsa (Wall.) Bl.; Michelia > manipurensis Watt ex Brandis; Michelia calcuttensis Parment. (all will be > italics) > > Regards > DR. SUBHASIS PANDA > ASSISTANT PROF. IN BOTANY > ANGIOSPERM TAXONOMY LAB. > POST-GRADUATE DEPTT. OF BOTANY > DARJEELING GOVT. COLLEGE > DARJEELING-734101 > (EX-RESEARCH FELLOW, CENTRAL NATIONAL HERBARIUM, BSI) > > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 11:40 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >> >> Some earlier relevant feedback: >> >> I'm used to seeing M. campbellii (here in the US) as a pink-flowered >> tree. >> Could yours be *M. doltsopa* (Michelia doltsopa)? >> Regards-- >> Ken. >> >> I think you are right *M *campbellii has pink colour flowers. You guess *M >> *doltsopa is quite justified!! >> Regards >> Tanay >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: JM Garg <[email protected]> >> Date: 5 March 2014 10:23 >> Subject: Fwd: [efloraofindia:183104] Magnolia grandiflora >> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]>, Neil Soares < >> [email protected]>, tanay bose <[email protected]>, Kenneth >> Greby <[email protected]> >> >> >> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >> >> Some earlier relevant feedback: >> >> I'm used to seeing M. campbellii (here in the US) as a pink-flowered >> tree. >> Could yours be *M. doltsopa* (Michelia doltsopa)? >> Regards-- >> Ken. >> >> I think you are right *M *campbellii has pink colour flowers. You guess *M >> *doltsopa is quite justified!! >> Regards >> Tanay >> >> >> On Saturday, June 5, 2010 10:51:47 PM UTC+5:30, Neil wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> My photographs taken in the Neora Valley National Park, but presume >>> they are of Magnolia campbelli. >>> Regards, >>> Neil Soares. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & >> Fauna'<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> >> The whole world uses my Image >> Resource<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of >> more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, >> Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). 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