Nice set of photographs Raman ji -- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Rathinasabapathy Bhuvaragasamy < [email protected]> wrote: > Good catch Raman Ji. > > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:09 AM, raman <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Cutch tree is a small tree, growing 3-15 m high. The stem is dark brown >> to black, with rough bark which peels off in long strips in mature trees; >> young trees have corky bark. The fern-like leaves are 100-200 mm long and >> contain between 8 and 30 pairs of small leaves made up of numerous, oblong >> pairs of secondary leaflets 2-6 mm long. Glands occur on the stem below the >> first pair of leaves, and between the uppermost six pairs of leaves. Pairs >> of stout thorns up to 10 mm long are found at the base of each leaf. The >> flowers are white or pale yellow, about 3 mm long and bunched tightly >> together to form a cylindrical flower spike, 35-75 mm long, resembling a >> lamb's tail. The brown, beaked seed pods are 50-125 mm long on a short >> stalk and contain between four and seven seeds, which are dark brown, flat >> and 5-8 mm in diameter. The taproot branches to 2 m depth >> >> Raman >> > > > > -- > B. Rathinasabapathy > Project Co-ordinator > Nilgiri Biosphere Nature Park > 1388, Avinashi Road > Peelamedu > Coimbatore-641004 > > <http://mail.google.com/subscribe.mhtml> > > > >
