Usha Di, This grass is very common in the places i visit everyday. I haven't seen any cow or goat eating any part of this grass. The reason may lie in - 1) these days cows or goats are not kept free, for grazing 2) usually these grasses grow in ditches on roadside and rail-tracks and in waste-places where domesticated ruminants are unlikely to visit, i think 3) there may also be some physiological aspects that i do not know
Thank you & Regards, surajit On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 6:07 PM, ushadi Micromini <microminipho...@gmail.com>wrote: > is the white pith edible for any animal ? > > usha di > > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 11:17 PM, surajit koley < > surajitnotavaila...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Sir, >> >> This grass is also *Coix gigantea*, identified by Manoj Sir, also in >> another post/thread - >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/DSlTblj9k0I/discussion. >> >> Thank you very much. >> >> Regards, >> >> surajit >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 9:54 PM, jmgarg1 <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >>> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: surajit koley <surajitnotavaila...@gmail.com> >>> Date: 4 November 2012 18:19 >>> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:137292] Re: Coix exploded from Hooghly >>> To: manoj chandran <machan...@gmail.com> >>> Cc: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com >>> >>> >>> Good evening Sir, >>> >>> Visited the grass at the same place today. Could not find any hair on >>> leaf surface and leaf base. However, the place is so densely populated by >>> wild herbs and climbers it was not possible to see through them whether >>> there was any floating root. It was also not possible to enter into the >>> ditch. It appears to me that the stem is not succulent, attaching a picture >>> (pic DSCN6667) of a stem, cut midway. >>> >>> I have uprooted one, might be a branch (pic DSCN6657). I give here the >>> stats:- >>> >>> 1) no hair or glandular hair on leaf >>> 2) looks like stem is not succulent >>> 3) seems to be no floating roots >>> >>> Height : 5.5 feet, nodes 10, rooting at lower 4 nodes, diameter less >>> than 1 cm, stem slightly compressed >>> leaf : blade 67 cm x 4.7 cm + 14 cm sheath, upto node, covering the >>> stem. upper surface (very) slightly rough, under surface glabrous >>> >>> It looks like that this grass is same *Coix gigantea*, recorded at >>> another place, and have been identified by you in another post - >>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/DSlTblj9k0I/discussion. >>> In such case i would like to add that this grass is very common here, >>> growing on roadside, ditches, uncultivated lands, low land beside rail >>> tracks and in wasteplace. >>> >>> Thank you very much, >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> surajit >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 10:58 PM, manoj chandran <machan...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> Good work. Only two possibilities are Coix gigantea and Coix aquatica. >>>> See whether the leaves are clothed with very dense glandular bristle like >>>> hairs on the upper surface and also see if the stems are succulent and have >>>> floating roots at the nodes. >>>> >>>> On Friday, October 26, 2012 10:39:23 PM UTC+5:30, surajitkoley wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Sir, >>>>> >>>>> Please do not laugh at me if i did make some silly mistake. I am not >>>>> used to it. I found a *Coix* very near my home, yesterday, and tried >>>>> to dissect it! >>>>> >>>>> Let me try to ID this species based on its spikelet only! >>>>> >>>>> Well, large wings on glumes of male spikelet = *C. gigantea*, but are >>>>> those wings large enough? I am not sure because i haven't seen *Coix >>>>> lacryma-jobi* yet! >>>>> >>>>> Species : *Coix gigantea*? >>>>> H & H : grass in roadside water logged ditch, about 6 feet high above >>>>> the water surface >>>>> Date : 25/10/12 >>>>> Place : Hooghly >>>>> >>>>> Thank you & Regards, >>>>> >>>>> surajit >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> With regards, >>> J.M.Garg >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 >>> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >>> The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& >>> eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged >>> alphabetically & place-wise): >>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use >>> them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. >>> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian >>> Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: >>> http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 2000 members >>> & 1,37,000 messages on 31/10/12) or Efloraofindia website: >>> https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database >>> of more than 7500 species). >>> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >>> India'. >>> >>> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Usha di > =========== > > --
