is this also Ficus rumphii ? from Hooghly 03-05-12 SK-1

[surajit koley]

Sir / Madam,

Found this very very big tree on roadside. Is this also Ficus rumphii ?

Species : UNKNOWN

Habit & Habitat : tree, very big, roadside

Date : 03-05-12, 9.52 a.m.

Place : Gobra (Hooghly), WB

Thank you & Regards,

Surajit Koley

[Tanay Bose]

Hi Surajit Da.

I think this is Ficus rumphii.

Tanay

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[surajit koley]

Thank you Tanay Ji for the ID. Everybody here call this tree as PAKUR in Bengali, whereas the scientific name given for the PAKUR in the book "Plants Group" and also at  https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/indiantreepix/ficus$20infectoria/indiantreepix/lfUcX6mGFK4/84WYKEU1wngJ is Ficus infectoria !

Regards,

surajit

[Tanay Bose]

Hi Surajit Ji.

I am very bad in common names hence have no idea about them.

Tanay

[surajit koley]

Oh! My beloved Tanay Ji, what i want to tell you is that these Bengali names of various plants differ regionally. Take the case of Plumeria rubra, we call it GULANCHA here, but one of my friends from North Bengal tells me that they call it KATH-GOLAP.

Regards,

surajit

[ushadi Micromini]

Tanay and Surajit: 

 I'll add to your confusion:) 
Plumeria rubra in  south 24 paraganas are called Kath-champa.... and people will swear that that's what the correct name is!!!!  while folks at KolBotG, esp their gardeners will call it (authoritatively) that its called Garuda-champa because one of their old bosses who wrote a book used to call it that!!! Bojo tthela...

and Gualncha/Gulancha   is Guduchi, or Tinospora cordifolia, there is regular gulancha and then there is padma gulancha the latter has a very knobby surface and both are sold green or fresh by Ayurvedic shops  and street vendors who sell the navagraha mula/roots ... I have seen some well organized shop(s) with  big painted  advertisement tin boards on railway platforms of local trains in some towns in south 24 paraganas...    this padma gulancha comes from deep recesses of the sunderbans they tell me...


well, interesting, ain't it?   cheers
usha di
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[Tanay Bose]

LONG LIVE THE LATINIZED NAME 

Tanay

[Dr Pankaj Kumar]

This should be Ficus rumphii and the plant on the link also is Ficus rumphii and not Ficus virens.

I really dream some one some day takes up the task of doing some research on Ficus of India. There are so many species!!!!

Pankaj

[surajit koley]

Good morning Usha Di

 I also heard the name GARUDA / GARUR CHAMPA and also know the name GULANCHA-LATA... know that Gulancha-lata is a climber, but didn't know the plant or its scientific name. But PADMA GULANCHA is new to me.

Please forgive me... in a hurry.. meet you this evening...

Thank you very much for the wonderful mail, it makes my morning more charming....

Regards,

surajit

[surajit koley]

Good morning / evening Tanay Ji

Meet you, say, after 9 p.m. (IST).. :)

Regards,

surajit

[ushadi Micromini]

Tanay: exactly right..


unifies the ideas and the field... 

It helps more when the taxonomic keys are well defined for the classification and then further defined for the regional differences and the key then helps even lay people in id properly... like the wild crafter who really bring in the Ayurvedic herbs to towns and manufactureres and wholesale intermediaries...
Usha di
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[surajit koley]

Thank you very much Pankaj Ji for solving two problems at one go - 1) confirming the ID of this one and 2) the ID confusion over my previous post of another ficus - https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/indiantreepix/quiz$20:$20which$20ficus/indiantreepix/guWelt0hA78/Ay0frAIcg-8J

Now, there is no darkness before my eyes....

A great day to you...

Regards,

surajit

[surajit koley]

Usha Di,

Today i have captured two climbers. Attaching those images. Is it the same Tinospora cordifolia we were talking about this morning?

Regards,

surajit

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:01 AM, ushadi Micromini <micromi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Tanay and Surajit: 

 I'll add to your confusion:) 
Plumeria rubra in  south 24 paraganas are called Kath-champa.... and people will swear that that's what the correct name is!!!!  while folks at KolBotG, esp their gardeners will call it (authoritatively) that its called Garuda-champa because one of their old bosses who wrote a book used to call it that!!! Bojo tthela...

and Gualncha/Gulancha   is Guduchi, or Tinospora cordifolia, there is regular gulancha and then there is padma gulancha the latter has a very knobby surface and both are sold green or fresh by Ayurvedic shops  and street vendors who sell the navagraha mula/roots ... I have seen some well organized shop(s) with  big painted  advertisement tin boards on railway platforms of local trains in some towns in south 24 paraganas...    this padma gulancha comes from deep recesses of the sunderbans they tell me...


well, interesting, ain't it?   cheers
usha di
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Usha di
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