Thare tree sporting young leaves

[raghu ananth]

Local Name: Thare

Terminalia Belarica

Combretaceae

 

My native, Krishnaraj Nagar or KR Nagar for short is a small, prosperous town and new developments take place every day – more and more RCC houses, huge shops, residents moving around in swanky cars. But, just a few kms away on the town outskirts, it bears the unmistakable stamp of the rural landscape – fields filled with the crops of the season with the water flowing merrily in the small bunds constructed inside it. Huge trees alongside the road or bordering the fields make nice resting places for birds and humans too. And of course a bullock cart ambles along the road sometimes ferrying people or sometimes laden with pumpkins or whatever produce the farmer has harvested.

Near one such field filled with paddy and which also houses a small pond, we saw the lovely Thare tree sporting young leaves which were a curious mixture of red, yellow and brown. A riot of colors if ever there was one! And resting high up on the tree were some black ibis birds.

Ah! It’s the magic of spring. Dare I do a jig?

For slightly better resolution check

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/earthsublime/ThareTreeTerminaliaBelarica

 Sunita / Raghu 

24 Feb 2008

 

 

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[J.M. Garg]

Lovely description, Raghu ji.

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On 3/7/08, raghu ananth <ragh...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Local Name: Thare

Terminalia Belarica

Combretaceae

 

My native, Krishnaraj Nagar or KR Nagar for short is a small, prosperous town and new developments take place every day - more and more RCC houses, huge shops, residents moving around in swanky cars. But, just a few kms away on the town outskirts, it bears the unmistakable stamp of the rural landscape - fields filled with the crops of the season with the water flowing merrily in the small bunds constructed inside it. Huge trees alongside the road or bordering the fields make nice resting places for birds and humans too. And of course a bullock cart ambles along the road sometimes ferrying people or sometimes laden with pumpkins or whatever produce the farmer has harvested.

Near one such field filled with paddy and which also houses a small pond, we saw the lovely Thare tree sporting young leaves which were a curious mixture of red, yellow and brown. A riot of colors if ever there was one! And resting high up on the tree were some black ibis birds.

Ah! It's the magic of spring. Dare I do a jig?

For slightly better resolution check

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/earthsublime/ThareTreeTerminaliaBelarica

 

 Sunita / Raghu 

24 Feb 2008

 

 

PS: Wikipedia link not available

 

 

 

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[Mahadeswara Swamy]

Attn Raghu,
Are you share it is T. bellerica. Can you send a close up photograph of the tree with flowers so that the identification can be confirmed. Send a photograph of  fruits  in due course.
Dr. Mahadeswara swamy

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From: raghu ananth <ragh...@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Friday, 7 March, 2008 6:25:50 PM
Subject: [Indiantreepix] Thare tree sporting young leaves

Local Name: Thare

Terminalia Belarica

Combretaceae

 

My native, Krishnaraj Nagar or KR Nagar for short is a small, prosperous town and new developments take place every day - more and more RCC houses, huge shops, residents moving around in swanky cars. But, just a few kms away on the town outskirts, it bears the unmistakable stamp of the rural landscape - fields filled with the crops of the season with the water flowing merrily in the small bunds constructed inside it. Huge trees alongside the road or bordering the fields make nice resting places for birds and humans too. And of course a bullock cart ambles along the road sometimes ferrying people or sometimes laden with pumpkins or whatever produce the farmer has harvested.

Near one such field filled with paddy and which also houses a small pond, we saw the lovely Thare tree sporting young leaves which were a curious mixture of red, yellow and brown. A riot of colors if ever there was one! And resting high up on the tree were some black ibis birds.

Ah! It's the magic of spring. Dare I do a jig?

For slightly better resolution check

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/earthsublime/ThareTreeTerminaliaBelarica

 Sunita / Raghu 

24 Feb 2008

 

 

PS: Wikipedia link not available

 

 

 

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[raghu ananth]

Dr. Mahadeshwar,

 

Here are the leaves of the same tree.

Could not reduce the tree photograph with flowers to less than 150K. size. Hope you will still be able to see the same in

 

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/earthsublime/ThareTreeTerminaliaBelarica

 

Regards

Raghu

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[J.M. Garg]

Lovely picture, Raghu ji. It looks wonderful in new leaves. Also called Baheda, Myrobalan, Beleric etc. Here is one link:http://images.google.co.in/imgres?http://images.google.co.in/imgres?imgurl=http://www.jcu.edu.au/discovernature/idc/groups/public/documents/presentation/jcudev_006012~2.3.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.jcu.edu.au/discovernature/sci_p2/JCUDEV_006012.html&h=300&w=400&sz=167&hl=en&start=1&

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