The canopy size shape and branching pattern suggest Rain Tree, Samanea saman though it is just a guess. Regards, Shrikant
On Jan 14, 6:31 pm, Pankaj Oudhia <pankajoud...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Group Members, > > I received an interesting query. Please go through it and share your > comments. > > regards > > Pankaj Oudhia > > -=-= > Dear Mr. Oudhia, > I was watching an older Ritwik Ghatak movie (Cloud-Capped Star; 1960), and a > couple of scenes included views of a road flanked by large trees (see > attached > screenshot). As you likely know, Ghatak was a Bengali director, and this > move > was filmed in West Bengal. I wrote to Dorrie Rosen at the New York Botanical > Garden to see if she could identify the tree from this distant view (and w/o > closeup images of the leaves, etc.). As can be read from the thread of > comments, she was guessing Banyan, but also suggested it could be a Devil > tree > (Alstonia scholaris) or Ficus religiosa syn. Urostigma religiosum (sacred > Bodhi > tree). Because we don't have close-ups of the foliage, she suggested > contacting > an Indian expert. So ... any idea what this tree is? This is mostly out of > curiosity, rather than any scientific need. > > Thanks much, > Jim Borowiec > > Cloud_Capped_Star trees.jpg > 116KViewDownload
