Does look like Samanea saman. If I had to make one more guess, I would have said, Delonix regia! Pankaj
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:08 PM, shrikant ingalhalikar <le...@rediffmail.com> wrote: > The canopy size shape and branching pattern suggest Rain Tree, Samanea > saman though it is just a guess. Regards, Shrikant > > On Jan 14, 6:31 pm, Pankaj Oudhia <pankajoud...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear Group Members, >> >> I received an interesting query. Please go through it and share your >> comments. >> >> regards >> >> Pankaj Oudhia >> >> -=-= >> Dear Mr. Oudhia, >> I was watching an older Ritwik Ghatak movie (Cloud-Capped Star; 1960), and a >> couple of scenes included views of a road flanked by large trees (see >> attached >> screenshot). As you likely know, Ghatak was a Bengali director, and this >> move >> was filmed in West Bengal. I wrote to Dorrie Rosen at the New York Botanical >> Garden to see if she could identify the tree from this distant view (and w/o >> closeup images of the leaves, etc.). As can be read from the thread of >> comments, she was guessing Banyan, but also suggested it could be a Devil >> tree >> (Alstonia scholaris) or Ficus religiosa syn. Urostigma religiosum (sacred >> Bodhi >> tree). Because we don't have close-ups of the foliage, she suggested >> contacting >> an Indian expert. So ... any idea what this tree is? This is mostly out of >> curiosity, rather than any scientific need. >> >> Thanks much, >> Jim Borowiec >> >> Cloud_Capped_Star trees.jpg >> 116KViewDownload -- *********************************************** "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) Research Associate Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project Department of Habitat Ecology Wildlife Institute of India Post Box # 18 Dehradun - 248001, India
