To me also it looks like Rain Tree it has no resemblance with any of the Ficus family tree. Promila
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 >
