Nice pictures Ashwini Ji, I hope you will get the flowers in April-May..!! On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 7:34 AM, Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you Mr Garg. > > Regards, > Ashwini > > On 1 Mar 2016, at 20:27, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Wonderful, photographs and details. > On 1 Mar 2016 19:10, "Ashwini Bhatia" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Last Wednesday I drove down to the lower town of Dharamshala with a >> friend to attend a local wedding feast. I stopped en route to photograph >> apricot and semal blossoms (which I will share here in due course) when my >> friend pointed me to a thorny shrub like tree. He said that it was called >> *Tirmira* in the local dialect and its fruit was used in chutneys and >> the wood in making pestles. Smaller twigs are also used as datun toothbrush >> (like that of neem and keekar). Later I found out that a species belonging >> to this genus gives the Szechuan Pepper. I am familiar with the Chinese >> spice but am yet to taste the local variety. I will update when I lay my >> hands on flower/fruit in season. It’s various culinary/medicinal uses are >> listed here; >> >> http://www.stuartxchange.com/Chi-it.html >> >> Zanthoxylum armatum—Winged Prickly-Ash, Toothache Tree, *Tirmir, Tirmira* >> 25 February, 2016 >> Dharamshala, HP, 1500m approximately >> >> >> Please correct me if I am wrong. >> >> Thanks. >> Ashwini >> >> <_MG_0970_25Feb2016.jpg> >> <_MG_0997_25Feb2016.jpg> >> >> Winged compound leaves; >> <_MG_0971_25Feb2016.jpg> >> <_MG_0993_25Feb2016.jpg> >> >> Empty dry pods; >> <_MG_0974_25Feb2016.jpg> >> >> -- >> 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 https://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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Regards, Dr. Nidhan Singh Assistant Professor Department of Botany I.B. (PG) College Panipat-132103 Haryana Ph.: 09416371227 -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
