Euphorbiaceae week- Jatropha integerrima Jacq. and tailor bird nest.

[Rashida Atthar]

Here's a  interesting  example of the interdependence of plants and birds. Jatropha integerrima Jacq. from my compound in Mumbai. This shrub  flowers almost throughout the year. The leaves have been stitched together for a nest by the ingenious little tailor bird ! 

 

The leaves are alternate, stipulate and panduraeform or fiddle shaped, cordate, at the base with 3-4 glandular teeth on each side near the base, smooth dark green above, pale or purplish tinged below.  Flowers in terminal corymbose cymes, monoecious or dioecious.

 

regards,

Rashida. 

[Gurcharan Singh]

Thanks Rashida ji for initiating Euphorbiaceae week. Hope to have good uploads from members.

-- 
Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ 

[Rashida Atthar]

Thankyou Sir.

 

regards,

Rashida.