Request for ID : 060111 : AK-2

Aarti S. Khale

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Jan 6, 2011, 10:45:19 AM1/6/11

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Taken at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Peradeniya, Sri Lanka on the
17th of November.
Is this the Shaving Brush tree flower?
It was a large tree.
Aarti

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tanay bose

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Jan 6, 2011, 11:24:33 AM1/6/11

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Pseudobombax ellipticum?

Tanay

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Satish Phadke

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Jan 7, 2011, 5:31:19 AM1/7/11

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This is Pachira insignis Family : Bombacaceae.
Guiana Chestnut or Malabar chestnut native of Mexico.
Refer my recent post from Kolkata bot. garden.
Dr Phadke

Aarti S. Khale

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Jan 7, 2011, 10:58:18 AM1/7/11

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Many thanks Satish ji.
Regards,
Aarti

On 1/7/11, Satish Phadke <drsmp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is *Pachira insignis* Family : Bombacaceae.

JM Garg

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May 19, 2016, 3:48:01 AM5/19/16

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Pachira aquatica as per link1 & link 2 & efi page with images on Pachira aquatica

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Aarti S. Khale

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May 19, 2016, 5:26:59 AM5/19/16

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UPDATE

Gargji

Link 1 is defunct

Link 2 siad npot found or some such

buch

upon searching their UBC website i found this page

https://botanyphoto.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/2010/01/pachira_aquatica_and_pachira_glabra/

Daniel Mosquin writes the blog and he has given several useful links

Usha di

this is march 2019 update

Thanks Garg Ji.

I will do the necessary corrections.

Regards,

Aarti

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