seedpod : Bauhinia x blakeana from Hooghly

[surajit koley]

Sir,

 

Attaching seedpod images of the same tree that i uploaded sometimes in January this year - https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/indiantreepix/bauhinia$20x$20blakeana/indiantreepix/2fer1UHmLTI/X2wqPw3W38kJ

 

Species : Bauhinia x blakeana

Habit & Habitat : garden tree

Date : 01-04-2012 & 12-04-2012

Place : Nalikul (Hooghly), WB

 

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Thank you & Regards,

 

Surajit Koley

 

[Gurcharan Singh]

Surajit ji

As far as I know Bauhinia x blakeana is a hybrid propagated vegetatively. It does not set seeds.

Your tree must be some thing different. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhinia_blakeana

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[surajit koley]

Sir,

 

This new laptop behaves erratic, thereby pasting the link at the top of my earlier mail. Sorry for the inconvenience.

 

Regards,

 

Surajit

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: surajit koley <surajitno...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:113424] seedpod : Bauhinia x blakeana from Hooghly
To: Gurcharan Singh <sing...@gmail.com>

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/indiantreepix/bauhinia$20x$20blakeana/indiantreepix/2fer1UHmLTI/X2wqPw3W38kJSir,

 

Thank you for drawing my attention to the fact that B. blakeana is a sterile plant. I also read, in January, about the sterile flowers of B. blakeana in wikipedia and other websites.

 

But there is a discussion at - http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/53664/ where someone claims that it bears seedpod. Again there is an image claiming to be seedpod of the same plant - http://www.hear.org/starr/images/image/?q=030702-0067&o=plants

 

So, if it is not the B. x blakeana then my earlier post (https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/indiantreepix/bauhinia$20x$20blakeana/indiantreepix/2fer1UHmLTI/X2wqPw3W38kJ) should also be some other species, might be B. variegata.

 

Regards,

 

Surajit Koley

[Gurcharan Singh]

Such reports often appear but one is not sure whether the person is talking about the real B. x blakeana or some cultivar of B. variegata which also has larger flowers with five stamens and broader petals, and does show variation in colour.

[surajit koley]

Good evening Sir.... it's very nice to hear/read you again, was missing you these days.

 

I understand that all data available in the net is not correct, actually authentic data comes only from a very few websites. That's why we need experts to moderate discussions. Besides it needs gene exploration to establish some identity with zero error.

 

I understand, because of data deficiency, it would had been better if i used a title like "seedpod : Bauhinia sp." for this post.

 

Thank you & Regards,

 

Surajit Koley

 
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