Gorgeous Shots... On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nice photographs Nidhan 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://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > > On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Nidhan Singh <nidhansingh...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> This is* Aegle marmelos **(Linn.) Correa., Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 5: >> 223, 1800*; Collett, Fl. Simlensis 80; *Crataeva marmelos *Linn., Sp. >> Pl. 444. >> >> *Vern. *Bel, Bill, Bael Pattar. >> >> A small or medium-sized glabrous, deciduous tree, upto 10 m high with >> corky grey bark having longitudinal wrinkles and sharp, hard, straight, >> axillary spines 2-3 cm or more long. Branches ascending. Leaves alternate, >> 3-foliolate, with a resinous odour. Leaflets ovate or linear-lanceolate, >> rhomboid, acuminate, crenate-serrate, gland-dotted, 5-10 x 3-6 cm, apex >> acute, oblique or rounded. Flowers in panicles, greenish-white, >> sweet-scented. Calyx small, deciduous. Petals 4-5, imbricate, oblong, >> gland-dotted. Stamens* *numerous. Ovary 8-20 celled. Fruit a drupe, 5-15 >> cm in diameter, with a smooth, grey or yellow woody shell and a sweet pulp. >> Shot in June 2011 from Shukartaal, a town in U.P. Though I could not get >> any fruit picture at that time. >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Dr. Nidhan Singh >> Department of Botany >> I.B. (PG) College >> Panipat-132103 Haryana >> Ph.: 09416371227 >> >> > > > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
