Hi All, I re-checked the Google sites and found a pic of a Khaya senegalensis, planted as a street tree at Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam, which matches the trunk of my tree.
Please confirm if the leaves also match. Thanks for all the help, Rgds, Padmini Raghavan. On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 3:10 PM, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Resurfacing again for ID > Earlier feedback > Vijayasankar ji.........................................*could it be > Simarouba glauca?* not sure but! > Mahadeswara ji......................................*Could be Sweitenia > macrophylla*. But cannot be confirmed till flowers and fruits are > observed. > Kunhikannan ji.......................................*chance for Simarouba > glauca not for Sweitenia*. > Rajdeo ji.............................................It *looks like Khaya > senegalensis (Desr.) A. Juss > *Padmini ji..........................................I checked the James > Cook university site and read that *Khaya senegalensis has a smooth grey > bark.* This tree had a very distinctively patterned bark all the way up > its trunk and branches... > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Padmini Raghavan <padi...@gmail.com> > Date: 12 November 2010 02:04 > Subject: [efloraofindia:54031] 12112010-PR3-In Chennai- for ID > To: indiantreepix <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> > > > This big tree was growing in a Govt Park in Chennai. > Last month, there were no fruit on it though I had seen plenty of fruit on > the Mahogany trees in Bangalore. > Is it a Sweitenia mahagoni? > Are they not likely to bloom or fruit in Chennai? > Thanks, > Padmini Raghavan. > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg (jmga...@gmail.com) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them > for free as per liberal licensing conditions attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Google e-group- Efloraofindia: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1475 members & > 57,000 messages on 16/12/10 & with a database of around 4400 species on > 30/11/10) > >
