Dear Usha i searched and found this page of illustration: it shows your fruit almost exactly but the leaf margin and shape is different from the pic above that I can surmise... http://www.plantillustrations.org/taxa.php?id_taxon=6829&lay_out=1&hd=1&group=0
you have to keep scrolling down to about 20 % down that page to get to p.arrillata... nice illustration.. ------ On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:17 PM, U GLachungpa <ushaglachun...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry, Ushadi, just got the fruit as we walked down out of the forest. The > person who got it told me that its roots were much sought after for > 'Marcha' a kind of local yeast cake used to ferment some local foods. > > Here is a picture by Sangay Bhutia with bit of leaf showing at the bottom, > which is not very helpful! > > > I then checked it out on Internet and see that it is possibly *Polygala > arillata *(tho' the seed in my pic looks a bit different). But need > experts here to confirm or correct. And there is a paper from Nepal on > this 'Marcha Plant' at > https://www.scribd.com/doc/9314292/Polygala-Arillata-Marcha-Plant, which > has no picture. Have dropped the author a line and hope he responds. > > Thanks for responding Ushadi and Vijayasankar, > Usha > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Ushadi Micromini < > microminipho...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear Usha >> did you have chance to photograph the plant itself? >> >> if you did can we see it please? >> thanks >> usha >> >> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Vijayasankar <vijay.botan...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> It can be a *Pittosporum *sp. >>> Not sure but... >>> >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Vijayasankar >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D. >>> National Center for Natural Products Research >>> University of Mississippi >>> >>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 7:32 AM, U GLachungpa <ushaglachun...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Dear All, >>>> would be grateful if the picture below could be identified. The fruit >>>> is from a small shrub at c. 1600m in Sikkim. I am told that it is added to >>>> the mixture locally called 'Marcha' used for fermentation. Have tried to >>>> get the picture from all sides. The fruit is very small. >>>> >>>> Kind regards, >>>> Usha >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Usha Ganguli-Lachungpa >>>> Prin. Research Officer (WL) & Addl. Dir. SBB >>>> Dept. of Forest, Env. & WL Mgmt. >>>> Govt. of Sikkim >>>> Forest Secretariat Annexe Bldg >>>> Deorali, Gangtok 737102 >>>> Tel/Cell: 03592-280402; 094340-25273 >>>> ushaglachun...@gmail.com >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Usha di >> =========== >> > > > > -- > Usha Ganguli-Lachungpa > Prin. Research Officer (WL) & Addl. Dir. SBB > Dept. of Forest, Env. & WL Mgmt. > Govt. of Sikkim > Forest Secretariat Annexe Bldg > Deorali, Gangtok 737102 > Tel/Cell: 03592-280402; 094340-25273 > ushaglachun...@gmail.com > -- Usha di =========== that's all.... usha ------------------------------------------- -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
