It looks like Samanea saman (= Albizia saman) to me too.
Regards 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 On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Pankaj Oudhia <pankajoud...@gmail.com>wrote: > It looks like Albizia sp. may be Albizia saman as replies are indicating. I > am remembering the words of Traditional Healers when they identify trees in > far hills with the help of canopy shape. They say Albizia as Sirsa i.e. > Sir-Sa -Head like. > > Jim is searching options of Ficus sp. I have sent thousands of images of > Ficus for confirmation. > > Lets wait for the comments of other members. Garg ji can tell whether these > trees still exist in Kolkata or not, in same fashion. > > regards > > Pankaj Oudhia > > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Thanks a lot for correcting me Neil sir, >> I assume most of Ritwik's movies were shot in Calcutta... >> Regards >> Pankaj >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Neil Soares <drneilsoa...@yahoo.com>wrote: >> >>> Hi Dr. Oudhia, >>> Obviously an avenue of Rain trees. A few of these still exist in Santa >>> Cruz, Bombay. >>> Regards, >>> Neil Soares. >>> >>> --- On *Fri, 1/14/11, Pankaj Oudhia <pankajoud...@gmail.com>* wrote: >>> >>> >>> From: Pankaj Oudhia <pankajoud...@gmail.com> >>> Subject: [efloraofindia:60306] Old trees in Ritwik Ghatak Movie >>> (Cloud-Capped Star; 1960) >>> To: "efloraofindia" <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> >>> Date: Friday, January 14, 2011, 7:01 PM >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> *********************************************** >> "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 >> > >
