>From Michael Ferrero, who supplied the ID:
"Manilkara kauki is pretty common right along the sea shores of the Eastern face of the Indo-Chinese peninsula and I guess its abundant in other coastal forests around Pen Malaysia and perhaps Philippines too? I always know it from that really rough bark (a dead give away) as is the emerging reddish new leaves, arranged in an Edwardian collar-like effect as well as the Sapotaceous flowers held directly beneath the crown! The Indian botanists have disputed the sinking of Madhuca longifolia into Manilkara? Mimusops? for ages but its really just them having a hard time losing their generic status of Madhuca (which by the way, is thecommon Hindi name for it). Aside from locals consuming their ripened fruits, Mimusops kauki has little else going for it! Interestingly Madhuca flowers are eaten fresh (after they have fallen over night but are processed into a kind of pickle) and the perfume is extracted by distilling the blooms in cold water and everporating off the oils by steaming! Its a very valuable commodity and entire (poorer) villages are employed just to get the Madhuca oil extracted this way! One Indian medicine-lady once told me you can poison people with it! You throw immature blooms of the Madhuca into someone's curry pot (along with their meal presumably) and if they partake in the resulting meal all will be poisoned, some fatally! Apparently very difficult to prove cause of death!" Regards-- Ken Greby. ________________________________ From: Kenneth Greby <[email protected]> To: Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>; TANAY BOSE <[email protected]> Cc: efloraofindia <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, March 26, 2010 9:13:29 PM Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:30863] Re: Unknown tree_Phuket Island, Thailand Greetings all-- I received an email from my friend here in Florida that a fellow botanist (and traveler to Thailand) thought that this tree is Manilkara (Mimusops) kauki. At least we all agree on Sapotaceae! Anyone feel free to comment on this ID, please. Regards-- Ken. ________________________________ From: Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> To: TANAY BOSE <[email protected]>; Kenneth Greby <[email protected]> Cc: efloraofindia <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, March 26, 2010 6:59:08 PM Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:30858] Re: Unknown tree_Phuket Island, Thailand Tanay I must say you are really talented. I admire your great knowledge of plants at this young age. Keep up the enthusiasm. You have great future. I have been regularly writing on this group, thever hesitate in making guesses, even if they are wild guesses. It prompts others to study the photograph more carefully. Your guesses usually score more than 95, mostly 100 per cent. Please keep it up. -- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/ On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Dr. Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: My dear Tanay, >>You are like my younger brother so I am writing this. I imagine why >>you are always in such a hurry!! Your own description says, "Flowers > >1--3, axillary, nodding. Pedicel 2--3 cm, densely rust colored >sericeous". Does it match with the picture? >>Sapotaceae genera in Thailand can be differentiated with the help of >>keys based on arrangements of leaves (opposite or clustered) but not >>without seeing the number of sepals. Flowers with 4 sepals (Payena, >>Madhuca) and flowers with 5-6 sepals (Palaquim, Pouteria and >>Xantolis). Can you please count, how many sepals you can see buddy!! >>On one guess I thought this could be Xantolis species. But I will send >>it to experts in Thailand to confirm. The stem surface is very unique. >>Hope they will be of some help. >>I would really be happy if you are right Tanay. Only thing I wish to >>convey is not to be in hurry and overlook things. Be a good boy!! >>Regards >Pankaj > > >>-- >>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>"efloraofindia" group. >>To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>[email protected]. >>For more options, visit this group at >>http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.
