Hello all I referred R.R.Fernandez thesis on plants of Bombay 1959. according to it it is Elaeodendron orientale J. Jacq. Synonym: Cassine orientalis (J. Jacq.) Kuntze
if possible i will post a line drawing of it given in the thesis. Regards Satish Pardeshi On May 12, 8:18 am, Neil Soares <drneilsoa...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi Tanay, > As Dinesh knows this is definitely not Cassine glauca. Sending you > photographs of Cassine glauca for comparison. It is also not Diospyros > malabarica. > Regards, > Neil. > > --- On Wed, 5/12/10, tanay bose <tanaybos...@gmail.com> wrote: > > From: tanay bose <tanaybos...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:34585] DV - 09MAY10 - 1003 :: ¿ Diospyros / > Glochidion ? > To: "R. Vijayasankar" <vijay.botan...@gmail.com> > Cc: "Dinesh Valke" <dinesh.va...@gmail.com>, "efloraofindia" > <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> > Date: Wednesday, May 12, 2010, 8:00 AM > > Dear Dinesh Ji, > > I think this is Cassine glauca (Rottb.) O. Ktze Like Vijayasankar Ji. I am > adding the description of the plant... > > A large tree; branchlets reddish; bark red inside, exuding a watery sap when > cut. Leaves opposite or sub-opposite, 3-16 x 1.5-7.5 cm, elliptic, > ovate-oblong or obovate, glabrous, dark green, shining above, glaucous > beneath; petiole 0.5-1 cm long, channelled. Cymes axillary, dichotomous, > 7.5-12 cm long; peduncle 2.5-6.5 cm long, often red. Flower 5 mm in diameter, > whitish; calyx 4-5-lobed, lobes rounded, margin membranous; stamens included, > filaments recurved, anthers with a 2-lobed connective. Ovary adnate to the > disc; style very short, persistent. Fruit a dry, ovoid, drupe, 1-15 cm long, > 1-celled, 1-seeded. > Regards > Tanay > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:42 AM, R. Vijayasankar <vijay.botan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Dinesh ji, the flowers remind me Cassine. (not C. glauca, certainly not > Diospyros). > > Let's hear from other members. > > With regards > > R. Vijayasankar > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Dinesh Valke <dinesh.va...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear friends, > Confused between Diospyros (malabarica) and Glochidion ... and ID could be > none of these !! > The flowers and fruits are mismatching. > (Please bear the photo quality). > > Date/Time : May 9, 2010 at 10.03am IST > Location Place : Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Udyan (Rani Bagh), Mumbai. > > Altitude : 10 m > GPS : 18°58'43.56"N, 72°50'9.81"E ± few seconds > > Habitat : garden (however must be found wild in Western Ghats) > Type : ... > > Plant > Habit : tree > Height : about 8 -12 m > Length : - not a climber - > > Leaves > Type : simple, alternately placed (possibly whorling), coarsely serrate (or > is it dentate, do not know) > Shape : elliptic, rounded at both ends > Size : 8 - 10 cm x 2.5 - 3.5 cm > > Inflorescence > Type : axillary cymous > Size : about 6 cm > > Flowers > Size : about 10 mm > Colour : off-white (cream) > Calyx : do not know > Bracts : - no bracts - > > Fruits > Type : ¿ drupe ? > Shape : ovoid > Size : about 3 cm > Seeds : do not know > > Other Info > Fragrance : do not know > Pollinator : do not know > Uses : do not know > > Regards. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To post to this group, send email to indiantree...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To post to this group, send email to indiantree...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. > > -- > Tanay Bose > +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) > 9830439691(Mobile) > 9674221362 (Mobile) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To post to this group, send email to indiantree...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To post to this group, send email to indiantree...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. > > Cassine glauca flowers.jpg > 89KViewDownload > > Cassine glauca,Bhutuxia fruit.jpg > 66KViewDownload -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To post to this group, send email to indiantree...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.