Beautiful set of photographs and reporting.
On Monday, June 4, 2012 7:40:35 AM UTC+5:30, Gurcharan Singh wrote: > > *Cordia dichotoma* Forster. f., Prodr. 18.1. 1876 > > A medium sized tree with minutely hairy branches; leaves obovate to > elliptic-ovate, up to 12 cm long, base rounded or cuneate; petiole 2-5 cm > long; flowers in dichotomously branched corymbose cymes, terminating > branches; male flowers shallowly 5-lobed calyx; corolla campanulate, 5-6 mm > long; bosexual flowers larger with calyx accrescent in fruit; fruit a > drupe, up to 15 mm, yellowish red, with sticky pulp. > > Commonly planted in Delhi along roadsides. Photographed from Vikas Puri, > New Delhi. > > > -- > 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/ > >
