Calotropis gigantea R.Br. [White variety] Sveta Arka

[ayush]

Calotropis gigantea R.Br. White variety
Family: Asclepiadaceae

Arabic : Ushr
Assamese : Akand, Akan
Bengali : Akanda, Akone, আকন্দ aakanda
English : Madar Tree, Gigantic-Swallow-Wort, Mudar.
Gujarati : Akado, Aakado, Akda, Myhara, Retoakah
Hindi : Aak, Madar, Akavana,
Kannada : Ekka, Ekkemale, Arkagida
Kashmiri : Aeka
Malayalam : Erikka, Erikku, Vallerikku
Marathi : Lalrui, Akanda, Lalakara, Rui, अर्क arka, अर्की arki, रुई rui, रुइटी ruiti
Oriya : Akondu, Bikkortono, Kotuki, Arakha
Persian : Khark, Zaharnak
Punjabi : Ak
Sanskrit : Bhanu, Ravi, Tapana, अर्क arka, सदापुष्प sadapushpa
Spanish: lechoso
Tahitian: tahinu
Tamil : Vellai Erukku வெள்ளை எருக்கு, Badabadam, Yercum
Telugu : Tella Jilledu తెల్ల జిల్లేడు , Mandaramu, Ekke, Arkamu,
Urdu : Madar, Aak

These photos are taken at Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh on 13th June 2012
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D. Radha Krishna Reddy
Siddha Central Research Institute
Chennai

[Dr. Hari Venkatesh.K.Rajaraman]

Dear Radha krishna ji...

Thanks for the post on Shwetharka... very nice photographs...Kindly note the following correction on the family. Asclepiadaceae has been merged with Apocynaceae, and all those members in Asclepiadaceae are presently under Apocynaceae....

Kindly refer the following link for clarification

http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2693661

Also linking you to one of the oldest post on Shwetha arka in bodhi nighantu...

https://groups.google.com/group/bodhi-nighantu/browse_thread/thread/8ba9d1e5d7878351/4777d6f9c17e9513?hl=en_US&lnk=gst&q=arka#4777d6f9c17e9513

Thanks and regards

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[Rabinarayan Acharya]

Dear All
Thanks to Dr R K Reddy for nice photographs, Let us start discussion on this plant i.e why giantea not procera

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[anandkumarreddy]

Dr Hari ji,

Each site says different family name.

Apart from the link you mentioned, Wikipedia also mentioned as Apocynaceae. Thanks for update. 

Still some are mentioning as Asclepiadaceae (in an article published in March 2012 Springerlink journal)
 http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00436-012-2865-2

Regards
D. Radha Krishna Reddy
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[Dr. Hari Venkatesh.K.Rajaraman]

Dear Radhakrishna ji...

Thanks for the reply. Kindly note that not all the researchers penning down articles give us the updated versions. To keep updated with Taxonomy, its better to stick on to Authentic Websites like that the one i provided you yesterday, www.theplantlist.org which is an output of the collaboration between the Royal Botanics Garden, KEW and Missouri Botanical Garden. The website contains 1,244,871 million scientific plant names of which 2,98,900 are accepted species names. A very useful and user friendly authentic website for any clarifications.

or it would be better to stick on to USDA's (United states Department of Agriculture) GRIN Taxonomy. This is the most usually referred website almost by most of the Taxonomists (In India) for updated information. Kindly follow the link below where you can search and check the names of different plants in this website. 

http://pgrdoc.bioversity.cgiar.org/taxcheck/grin/index.html 

If the information given above is contradicted by some one, you can correct me. 

Regards

[ayush]

Differences in flower of two species.

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D. Radha Krishna Reddy

[Dr. Hari Venkatesh.K.Rajaraman]

Dear Radhakrishna ji...

Thanks for sharing the nice photographs that differentiates the flowers of C.gigantea from C. procera

[Akshata Aithal]

procera flowers are violet in color and the uses of procera and gigancia are also different