Dear Dr Wujayasankar
Thank you for your explanation.

Pudji Widodo

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Vijayasankar <vijay.botan...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Generally (or always) Ceiba pentandra is planted around fields/plantations
> mainly for extraction of silk-cotton. Bombax ceiba is seldom planted. And
> the plants in the pictures look more of the former species to me.
>
> Regards
>
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> Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D.
> Post Doctoral Research Associate
> National Center for Natural Products Research
> Thad Cochran Research Center
> University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 38677
> Phone: +1 662 915 1018
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>
>
> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Does look like a Bombacaceae member! But cant be sure about Ceiba. Why
>> not Bombax?
>> Pankaj
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 3:50 AM, Pudji Widodo <pudjiuns...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I think it is Ceiba pentandra Bombacaceae.  I am not sure.
>> >
>> > Pudji Widodo
>> > Fakultas Biologi
>> > Universitas Jenderal Soedirman
>> > PURWOKERTO 53122
>> > INDONESIA
>> >
>> > On Nov 19, 6:21 pm, raghu ananth <raghu_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >> An areca farm worker carrying home dhoodi (dudi, dhudi ...  guess its a
>> silk
>> >> cotton tree ) leaves and stalk, as fodder for his sheep and goat
>> >>
>> >> How do the tree look like then? Will post a tall doodi tree from the
>> areca
>> >> plantation soon.
>> >>
>> >> Chandagal village, Mysore district
>> >>
>> >> Sep 2010
>> >>
>> >> Regards
>> >> Raghu
>> >>
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>> Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae)
>> Research Associate
>> Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project
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>> Wildlife Institute of India
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