Sir, I will try to find it out, i remember this difference with *Chionachne*.
Thank you, Regards, surajit On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:18 AM, manoj chandran <[email protected]>wrote: > Coix is supposed to be a good fodder grass. Kindly feed the leaves/stem to > cattle to check its palatibility. > > On Thursday, November 8, 2012 6:07:54 PM UTC+5:30, Ushadi wrote: >> >> is the white pith edible for any animal ? >> >> usha di >> >> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 11:17 PM, surajit koley >> <[email protected]**>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<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 <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >>>> >>>> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> From: surajit koley <[email protected]**> >>>> Date: 4 November 2012 18:19 >>>> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:137292] Re: Coix exploded from Hooghly >>>> To: manoj chandran <[email protected]> >>>> Cc: [email protected] >>>> >>>> >>>> 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<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 <[email protected]>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<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<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<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/<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 >> =========== >> >> --
