Lalbagh - during premonsoon showers ....Cresentia Cujete

[raghu ananth]

Lalbagh, after a rainy day ....

Cresentia Cujete from Bangalore

Kannada: Sanyasi bakkare (meaning Mendicant potsherd) (A potsherd occasionally is used for parching seeds etc., and as a lid)

May 2011

Origin:Trop. America

Regards

Raghu

[vijaya chakravarty]

In Mumbai it is called 'kamandal'--the sadhu's water bowl--or rather
in modern terminology a water bottle!1
Regards
vijaya Chakravarty

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[Dr. Shiddamallayya Mathapati]

In kannada it is said to be BHIKSHA PATRE

--
Dr. Shiddamallayya N,
Survey of Medicinal Plant Unit
National Ayurveda Dietetics Research Institute,
(A unit of C C R A S,
Dept. of  AYUSH, Mini. of H & F W,
Govt. of India, New Delhi),
G C P Annexe, Ashoka Pillar
Jayanagar I block,
Bangalore - 560 011
0 - 9449644341

[H S]

Like in earlier discussion i said about the common names,, here is one more example "Water bottle"

Begger's bowl turned to be Water bottle...

 

Request: Please stop giving any kind of common name to any plant..

 - H.S.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone

[JM Garg]

Crescentia alata as per http://file.scirp.org/Html/2-2600757---11_32719.htm