Bignoniaceae Week: 1312013: Dolichandron spathacea : Shrikant

[Shrikant Ingalhalikar]

Littoral or a mangrove associate tree, 3-8 m tall. Leaflets 5-9, large. Flowers 15-20 cm long, fragrant, night blooming. Rare, found only in Goa. Regards,
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Shrikant Ingalhalikar

12, Varshanand Society

Anandnagar, Sinhagad road

Pune 411051. INDIA

Tel. +9120 2435 0765

www.idsahyadri.com

[Balkar Singh]

Thanks for sharing this rare specimen Sir

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Dr Balkar Singh
Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology & 

Horticulture Incharge
Arya P G College, Panipat
Haryana-132103
09416262964

[radhaveach]

This is a new one for me.

Thanks for posting a rare native!

best
Radha

[Ushadi Micromini]

Shrikant...
very nice flower

Do you mean it grows only in GOA?  or YOU  have only seen it in GOA?.
Usha di


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On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Shrikant Ingalhalikar <shrikant.i...@gmail.com> wrote:

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Usha di
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[Aarti S. Khale]

Beautiful picture Shrikant ji.

Some Avenue trees seen in Mumbai too, one at Five Gardens, near Dadar TT, pictures posted by me earlier.

Aarti

[Shrikant Ingalhalikar]

Yes, 'i' have seen only in Goa and keen to know if anyone has seen else where. Regards,

[Ushadi Micromini]

Shrikant:
I hope you mean in NON-garden situation ie naturally occuring...

because some gardens have them, which perhaps means planted and cared for by humans....
usha di

[Bolmax Pereira]

Sir Shrikant

I had seen and photographed the flowers and pods and the tree itself in at Thrissur in Kerala last April (2022)when Dolichandrone spathacea was in flowering/fruiting stage. I carried back some matured pods as well but the seeds did not germinate here in Goa. Since the tree is recorded in the mangrove associates list of Goa mangroves, we took it up as a TY BSc project for this year (2022-2023). at St Joseph Vaz College, Cortalim Goa.

Initially we thought we managed to identify and document many plants along Mangrove stretches of Zuari river as well as some trees growing as Avenue trees along the highway on the Verna -Sancoale Plateau awaiting the flowering season(supposedly every 7 years?) for proper identification, only to realize that we misidentified Lannea grandis (also a mangrove associate with similar leaf morphology) as Dolichandrone. the flowering season that has just started for Lannea made the things clear to us.

So far we have managed to identify and locate ONLY ONE Dolichandrone tree in our study area due to the presence of dehiscensed pods on the tree. all other trees initially identified as Dolichandrone have started flowering as Lannea. If you can provide the location of the tree that you have seen in Goa, we would be willing to include it in our study. Any suggestions/information from this esteemed group will be helpful for my students in their research.

Regards,

Dr. Fr. Bolmax Pereira

Department of Botany,

St. Joseph Vaz College,

Cortalim Goa- 403710

mob: 9168560413

[Bolmax Pereira]

Sir Shrikant

I had seen and photographed the flowers and pods and the tree itself in at Thrissur in Kerala last April (2022)when Dolichandrone spathacea was in flowering/fruiting stage. I carried back some matured pods as well but the seeds did not germinate here in Goa. Since the tree is recorded in the mangrove associates list of Goa mangroves, we took it up as a TY BSc project for this year (2022-2023). at St Joseph Vaz College, Cortalim Goa.

Initially we thought we managed to identify and document many plants along Mangrove stretches of Zuari river as well as some trees growing as Avenue trees along the highway on the Verna -Sancoale Plateau awaiting the flowering season(supposedly every 7 years?) for proper identification, only to realize that we misidentified Lannea grandis (also a mangrove associate with similar leaf morphology) as Dolichandrone. the flowering season that has just started for Lannea made the things clear to us.

So far we have managed to identify and locate ONLY ONE Dolichandrone tree in our study area due to the presence of dehiscensed pods on the tree. all other trees initially identified as Dolichandrone have started flowering as Lannea. If you can provide the location of the tree that you have seen in Goa, we would be willing to include it in our study. Any suggestions/information from this esteemed group will be helpful for my students in their research.

Regards,

Dr. Fr. Bolmax Pereira

Department of Botany,

St. Joseph Vaz College,

Cortalim Goa- 403710

mob: 9168560413

On Monday, January 14, 2013 at 2:55:51 PM UTC+5:30 Ushadi wrote:

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