Such reports often appear but one is not sure whether the person is talking about the real B. x blakeana or some cultivar of B. variegata which also has larger flowers with five stamens and broader petals, and does show variation in colour.
-- 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://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:00 PM, surajit koley < surajitnotavaila...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sir, > > This new laptop behaves erratic, thereby pasting the link at the top of my > earlier mail. Sorry for the inconvenience. > > Regards, > > Surajit > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: surajit koley <surajitnotavaila...@gmail.com> > Date: Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:51 PM > Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:113424] seedpod : Bauhinia x blakeana from > Hooghly > To: Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> > > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/indiantreepix/bauhinia$20x$20blakeana/indiantreepix/2fer1UHmLTI/X2wqPw3W38kJ > Sir, > > Thank you for drawing my attention to the fact that *B.* *blakeana* is a > sterile plant. I also read, in January, about the sterile flowers of *B. > blakeana* in wikipedia and other websites. > > But there is a discussion at - http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/53664/ > where > someone claims that it bears seedpod. Again there is an image claiming to > be seedpod of the same plant - > http://www.hear.org/starr/images/image/?q=030702-0067&o=plants > > So, if it is not the *B. x blakeana* then my earlier post ( > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/indiantreepix/bauhinia$20x$20blakeana/indiantreepix/2fer1UHmLTI/X2wqPw3W38kJ) > should > also be some other species, might be *B. variegata*. > > Regards, > > Surajit Koley > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Surajit ji >> As far as I know Bauhinia x blakeana is a hybrid propagated vegetatively. >> It does not set seeds. >> >> Your tree must be some thing different. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhinia_blakeana >> >> >> -- >> 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://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 8:23 PM, surajit koley < >> surajitnotavaila...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Sir, >>> >>> Attaching seedpod images of the same tree that i uploaded sometimes in >>> January this year - >>> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/indiantreepix/bauhinia$20x$20blakeana/indiantreepix/2fer1UHmLTI/X2wqPw3W38kJ >>> >>> Species : *Bauhinia* *x* *blakeana* >>> Habit & Habitat : garden tree >>> Date : 01-04-2012 & 12-04-2012 >>> Place : Nalikul (Hooghly), WB >>> >>> >>> >>> <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-W0sQ3EMDgGg/T4beD_4nL-I/AAAAAAAADZY/7hqgHUsOoBA/s1600/DSCN1428.jpg> >>> >>> >>> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6vNYaS1-6FI/T4beDeILuCI/AAAAAAAADZY/LbTVdj5n59w/s1600/DSCN1429.jpg> >>> >>> >>> <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-dh0iOdpQ50s/T4beIjmIhZI/AAAAAAAADZY/8wSTKFxFmk8/s1600/DSCN1431.jpg> >>> >>> >>> <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Vb0NIETNkCw/T4beOCZpAEI/AAAAAAAADZY/oO3f2qReBvQ/s1600/DSCN1436.jpg> >>> ==================================== >>> ==================================== >>> >>> >>> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-qPAakrF8JRE/T4beeYC7S6I/AAAAAAAADZY/MYpfFKG2ad4/s1600/DSCN2024.jpg> >>> >>> >>> <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-pXxIi83ERjE/T4beOc5YlDI/AAAAAAAADZY/En8TUcr5-8w/s1600/DSCN2020.jpg> >>> >>> >>> <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-tUZsU_-7-yA/T4beW3EID6I/AAAAAAAADZY/D-cNXYfsdBU/s1600/DSCN2022.jpg> >>> >>> >>> <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-2ZwcxosYsmE/T4beYcIR-II/AAAAAAAADZY/Nq1B9MU3c9Q/s1600/DSCN2023.jpg> >>> >>> >>> <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-12RwMDRyqbQ/T4befUzqyjI/AAAAAAAADZY/r2IFuUO-nj8/s1600/DSCN2026.jpg> >>> >>> >>> <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Rqq7SAq-Jwg/T4bejIOHyxI/AAAAAAAADZY/qx_R16WIZbg/s1600/DSCN2027.jpg> >>> >>> >>> Thank you & Regards, >>> >>> Surajit Koley >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > >
