Thanks Tanay. Good to hear from you, hope you miss these fruits !! regards, Rashida.
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 5:09 AM, tanay bose <tanaybos...@gmail.com> wrote: > nice catch Rashida ji quite a detailed picture > Tanay > > On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Rashida Atthar > <atthar.rash...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Thank you Sir, seems quite widespread. >> >> regards. >> Rashida. >> >> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Thanks Rashida ji for showing us another species of Dillenia >>> Seems to be widely distributed, as following common names indicate >>> >>> Hindi: Agai, Kallai >>> Beng: Karkotta >>> Mar: Karmal >>> Tel: Chinakalinga, Ravudana >>> Tam: Nayetekku >>> Kan: Kanigala, Kadikanigala >>> Mal: Punna, Kodapunna >>> Oryiya: Rai >>> Assam: Akshi >>> Nepal: Tatri >>> Trade: Dillenia >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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/~singhg45/ >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Rashida Atthar <atthar.rash...@gmail.com >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> Here's the Dillenia pentagyna fruiting seen today at the southern end of >>>> the national park in Mumbai. We hardly ever get to see the flowering of >>>> this >>>> tree which lasts just a few days. As per 'Trees of Mumbai' book -The >>>> scientific name Dillenia was given by Linnaeus in honour of Johann >>>> Dillenius, a German Physician and professor of Botany at Oxford (1734). The >>>> ovary has five chambers, hence the specific name pentagyna. It is one of >>>> the >>>> most primitive amongst flowering plants existing today. >>>> >>>> regards, >>>> Rashida. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Tanay Bose > +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) > 9830439691(Mobile) > > >
