Artocarpus lakoocha (Family: Moraceae) Hooghly, West Bengal

[surajit koley]

Sir,

The day before yesterday I received ID of this tree from 'Indian Flora' (facebook) group. After receiving the ID i come to know that it is called DEOPHAL (phal = fruit) in Bengali. I found this on roadside and it is not that common as Acacia, Delonix, Copper pods, Albizia etc are.

ID help - http://www.facebook.com/groups/indianflora/permalink/327567523951260/

Regards,

Surajit Koley

[Balkar Singh]

Yes Artocarpus lakoocha. Nice shots indeed 

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Dr Balkar Singh
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Arya P G College, Panipat
Haryana-132103
09416262964

[surajit koley]

Sir,

Thank you for confirming. I think this tree is struggling with other much bigger trees to get its share of sunshine. It is not that healthy looking one.

Regards,

Surajit koley

[Vijayadas D]

no, but for water

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 7:41 PM, surajit koley <surajitno...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sir,

Thank you for confirming. I think this tree is struggling with other much bigger trees to get its share of sunshine. It is not that healthy looking one.

Regards,

Surajit koley

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Balkar Singh <balka...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes Artocarpus lakoocha. Nice shots indeed 

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 8:32 PM, surajit koley <surajitno...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sir,

The day before yesterday I received ID of this tree from 'Indian Flora' (facebook) group. After receiving the ID i come to know that it is called DEOPHAL (phal = fruit) in Bengali. I found this on roadside and it is not that common as Acacia, Delonix, Copper pods, Albizia etc are.

ID help - http://www.facebook.com/groups/indianflora/permalink/327567523951260/

Regards,

Surajit Koley

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Regards

Dr Balkar Singh
Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology
Arya P G College, Panipat
Haryana-132103
09416262964

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Vijayadas
Riyadh -11462 , KSA

[surajit koley]

Yes, Madam, it must be the water which is wanting to this tree. For it is hard pressed side  by side with several other trees, yet facing open east side.

Thank you & Regards,

Surajit Koley

[Ushadi]

How come NO SEEDS INSIDE THE FRUIT?

usha di

[surajit koley]

Usha Di,

I ate this fruit (MADAR) in my childhood and as far as i remember i did not notice any seed at that time too. Thank you for your question, it raises my curiosity, i will check.

Regards,

surajit

[Ushadi Micromini]

I do not know MADAR/ Maadaar  (seems its used for many disparate ids/ things)  but I do know DEOPHAL ...

DEOPHAL HAS SEEDS

after the holidays, i'll go thru my ocean of DSC  numbers!!!!
I'll try to find these  and post...

usha di

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[surajit koley]

Usha Di,

Flora Indica and Flora of British India also refer to its oblong seeds, a pic at - http://www.sunshine-seeds.de/product_info.php?products_id=44715&language=en.

My memory fails, maybe i had had unripe fruits, but MADAR looks like the 3rd and 4th pics in the above link. Certainly i will try to find more, usually i do not forget important issues.

Thank you,

Regards,

surajit

[surajit koley]

Usha Di,

These fruits are from the same tree as in my earlier records. This is MAADAAR or MADAR (sometimes 'R' is replaced by "L") in local vernacular. I think it is also the same DEOPHAL of literatures. One interesting thing that i have found out about this tree is that each year the fruits in the first phase do not grow more than an inch or two and do not bear seeds. Later the tree again produces fruits and 10 to 15% of those fruits grow big enough to contain edible pulp, and also seeds.

Please also visit https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/indiantreepix/qxuIjz0xNoE for the correct name of this taxon.

Thank you,

Regards,

surajit

[surajit koley]

These are the fruits of the same species, another individual at another place. Also a jungle myna!

Regards,

surajit

[surajit koley]

These fruits are known as MAADAAR (as in mother) in rural Hooghly, village urchins liked it before 2000, for the state of rural economy was not as sound as today, some of them still eat this.

MAADAAR is not recorded in BP or FI or in Hortus; instead FI states "DHEA-PHUL-BURHUL", Hortus informs ডেঁফল

Thank you

Regards

surajit koley

a non-botanist member of

efloraofIndia google group

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 8:32 PM, surajit koley <surajitno...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Tapas Chakrabarty]

Thanks for showing.

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[surajit koley]

Thank you Sir

Regards

surajit koley