Dear Alka, to me it looks like it could be Ixora pavetta or else Ixora brachiata - one of the two. Both have highly fragrant small white flowers which you can smell from a long distance. Can your mother remember the month of flowering?
regards Radha On 22/06/2015, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id assistance please. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Alka Khare <[email protected]> > Date: 15 June 2015 at 12:16 > Subject: [efloraofindia:226079] Konkan, May 2015 :: Requesting ID of this > tree :: ARKJUN-01/12 > To: [email protected] > > > Hello friends > > Requesting to please ID this medium sized tree captured near Devgad, Konkan > coast, Maharashtra in May 2015. > > I was on the lookout for a flower/s called 'kara' in Marathi, white in > colour and having a very nice fragrance which can be identified even from a > great distance. My mother was very fond of these flower/s (she is vague in > remembering whether it was a single flower or a bunch of small flowers) > when she was a child and stayed in her village in coastal Konkan. But she > has not seen it in many years since. > > I had been to my native place this summer and was shown what might be > thought the 'kara' tree. The flowering was over. I could only get the > leaves. The tree is currently completely surrounded by the Peepal. > > Any idea on the ID? > > Thanks and Regards > Alka Khare > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > 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). You can also use them for free as > per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the > world- more than 2500 members & 2,25,000 messages on 18.6.15) or > Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 11,000 species & 2,00,000 images). Winner of > Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. > > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
