The synonym was confusing to me Ficus nitida Thunb. = Ficus benjamina L. var. benjamina Ficus nitida auct non Blume = Ficus microcarpa I checked with the drawing in Flora of Pakistan http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=50208&flora_id=2 and the leaves and fruit agree quite well with my plant. Particularly the veins near the leaf base is the same. However, my plant still looks different from those in Gurcharan ji's pictures and also from the images of Ficus microcarpa on FOI http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Laurel%20Fig.html By the way, there exists a ficus microcarpa var. nitida too. Clarifications are welcome. - Tabish
On Oct 26, 10:51 am, Tabish <tabi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Pankaj, > Seems to be the right ID! Compare with this image > http://genzor.net/osc/images/Ficus%20nitida.jpg > Only that Ficus nitida is a synonym of Ficus benjamina var. benjamina, > according to GRIN. > - Tabish > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > How about Ficus nitida? > > Pankaj > > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:00 AM, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. > > >> Some earlier relevant feedback: > > >> “Foliage looks too big to be F. microcarpa or F. microcarpa 'Green Gem', > >> but > >> too small and wrong shape to be F. elastica, F. macrophylla, or F. > >> columnaris. Looks close (shape, size) to F. rubiginosa, but foliage lacks > >> any tomentum, is too concolorous, and has fruit of the wrong color. > > >> That's about all I've got. I'm pretty certain it is one that I haven't > >> seen > >> before. > > >> Regards-- > >> Ken. ” > > >> “I think F. microcarpa > > >> Here are mine from Delhi > > >> -- > >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh” > > >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >> From: Tabish <tabi...@gmail.com> > >> Date: 3 September 2010 10:22 > >> Subject: [efloraofindia:46351] unid Fig-TQ03 > >> To: Efloraofindia <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> > > >> Looks like a fig tree. > >> Small (maybe young) tree, cultivated > >> Leaves leathery, shining, obovate, rounded tip. > >> Photographed on 2nd Sept 2010 > >> Location Delhi (Garden of Five Senses) > > >> Please identify > >> - Tabish > > >> -- > >> With regards, > >> J.M.Garg (jmga...@gmail.com) > >>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 liberal licensing conditions attached with each image. > >> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > >> please visit/ join our Google e-group- > >> Efloraofindia:http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix(more than 1400 > >> members & 50,000 messages on 10/10/10 & with a database of around 4100 > >> species on 31/8/10) > > > -- > > *********************************************** > > "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" > > > Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) > > Research Associate > > Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project > > Department of Habitat Ecology > > Wildlife Institute of India > > Post Box # 18 > > Dehradun - 248001, India
