Citrus Fruit For ID : Uttarakhand : 210413 : AK-2

Aarti S. Khale

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Apr 21, 2013, 6:01:16 AM4/21/13

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Citrus fruit seen growing near a house in Jim Corbett on 23/3/13.

Fruit oblong and much bigger than our common Lime.

Id please.

Aarti

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Promila Chaturvedi

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Apr 21, 2013, 9:24:06 AM4/21/13

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It looks like galgal.

Promila

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Aarti S. Khale

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Apr 21, 2013, 10:11:04 AM4/21/13

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Promila ji,

Thanks for the id.

What would be the botanical name?

Regards,

Aarti

Makarand Kulkarni

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Apr 23, 2013, 10:30:06 PM4/23/13

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Common names can be confusing as there are so many dialects spoken in India... In Maharashtra Galgal or Ganer is called for another evergreen tree of Cochlospermum religiosum/C.gossypium..... So Botanical Pundits pl id the scientific name of the Citrus fruit/plant.

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Gurcharan Singh

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Apr 24, 2013, 1:12:53 AM4/24/13

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Yes that is the irony of common names.

Every one in hilly areas of Punjab, Jammu, Himachal Pradesh and other parts of NW Himalayas is so familiar with citrus fruit GALGAL, oblong yellow fruit extensively used in pickle making. It is botanically Citrus pseudolimon, hill limon or Kumaon limon

http://www.fruitipedia.com/galgal.htm

But not so with our published literature. I have with me Useful Plants of India, published by CSIR in 1986

It has Galgal as Hindi name for Cochlospermum religiosum, as mentioned by Kulkarni ji, also known as kumbi or ganer, and if we go by English names, It is known as Silk Cotton Tree,, a name belonging to Bombax ceiba more commonly.

In UP Galgala is name of a grass Eragrostis pilosa.

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Aarti S. Khale

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Apr 24, 2013, 2:04:23 AM4/24/13

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Gurcharan ji,

Many thanks to you...my mystery Citrus fruit now has an identity!

Only wanted to clarify the common names.

Hill Limon or Lemon, also Kumaon Limon or Lemon?

Could be a typo error.

Regards,

Aarti

Gurcharan Singh

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Apr 24, 2013, 2:32:29 AM4/24/13

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Lemon Aarti ji, just a typo.

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SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089

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Aarti S. Khale

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Apr 24, 2013, 5:03:37 AM4/24/13

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Not a problem Sir ji.

I thought so.

Aarti

JM Garg

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Aug 26, 2022, 11:45:15 AM8/26/22

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It is Citrus × taitensis Risso syn. Citrus × jambhiri Lush., as per images and details herein.

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Aarti S. Khale

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Aug 27, 2022, 12:48:59 AM8/27/22

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Thanks Garg Ji.

Regards,

Aarti

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