But your description about fruits, opposite leaves and the place it is collected provoked my thoughts and made me rethink. Now I don't think that it is Myristica. Let me check it again. Do you have a close up of leaves and fruit by any chance?
Regards, Giby On Jul 30, 2:21 pm, Thejaswi Shivanand <dumak...@gmail.com> wrote: > I photographed this tree in fruit at Savandurga hill, near Magadi about 60 > km west of Bangalore on 28th July. The tree was one of many in a cluster in > rocky habitat; not very large - about 4-6 m in height, with opposite, > elliptic leaves, with mature ones 6-8 cm long, and orange fruit about 1-1.5 > cm across. The skin of the fruit had a fibrous inner layer, and > transluscent, watery pulp (with the consistency of litchi pulp, also > reminded me of *Cordia*) surrounded a single stone (the pulp was slightly > sour). The leaves of some trees were infested with galls on the upper > surface. I'd be grateful for any help in identification. > > regards > > Thejaswi Shivanand > > -- > Thejaswi Shivanand > > http://www.cfl.in > > "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad > to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones > who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like > fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars, and > in the middle, you see the blue center-light pop, and everybody goes ahh..." > > Jack Kerouac, "On the Road" > > -- > Thejaswi Shivanand > > http://www.cfl.in > > "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad > to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones > who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like > fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars, and > in the middle, you see the blue center-light pop, and everybody goes ahh..." > > Jack Kerouac, "On the Road" > > ID300710TS01.JPG > 176KViewDownload
