Dear Karthick The specimen from uploaded from Nilgiri forests is *Prunus ceylanica* of Rosaceae. The characteristic partial bilobed fruits, entire margin of the leaf are the features for which I suggest that it can be *P. ceylanica*.
Regards Manoranjan Bhanja -- Dr. Manoranjan Bhanja, IFS Addl. Prl. CCF (Research), Room No.568, Aranya Bhavan, Hyderabad - 500004 Andhra Pradesh, INDIA On 19 January 2014 13:24, Muthu Karthick <nmk....@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > Please help me in identifying this medium-sized tree found in dense > evergreen forests of Nilgiris. > > Height: 10 metre > Fruit: 1-2 cm across > > Place: Longwood Shola, Kothagiri, TN > Alt.: 2005 m asl > Date: 07 Jan 2014 > > -- > Muthu Karthick, N > Care Earth Trust > #15, second main road, > Thillai ganga nagar, > Chennai - 600 061 > Mob: 0091 96268 33911 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- 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 (largest in the world): http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 2200 members & 1,78,400 messages on 31/12/13) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 9000 species & 1,80, 000 images). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
