Fw: BARRINGTONIA RACIMOSA

[Col Bimal Sarkar]

Regards Col (Retd) Bimal Sarkar Mobile: 9434194942 --- On Thu, 9/15/11, Col Bimal Sarkar <colbima...@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Col Bimal Sarkar <colbima...@yahoo.com> Subject: BARRINGTONIA RACIMOSA To: "A P" <apda...@gmail.com>, "abhay prasad" <abhayp...@rediffmail.com>, "aditi pal" <aditi.pa...@gmail.com>, "Alok De" <dealo...@gmail.com>, "Amitava Chudhury" <amitava.c...@gmail.com>, amit...@gmail.com, "Anup Datta" <dranu...@gmail.com>, "Arabindo Ghosh" <aurobin...@gmail.com>, "arindam sarkar" <s_ar...@yahoo.com>, "ARVIND SAKLANI" <arvind....@piramal.com>, "Ashim Dutta" <akrc...@rediffmail.com>, "asoke kumar sannigrahi" <sannig...@rediffmail.com>, "bikash basu" <bikash....@gmail.com>, "Binay Bandopadhyaya" <bin_...@yahoo.co.in>, "Brig Aloke Tyagi" <tyagi...@gmail.com>, "Brig.Rajbir Singh" <Rajb...@gmail.com>, "balwant rao" <bunn...@gmail.com>, "Debdatt Choudhury" <bisk.pr...@gmail.com>, "Deepita Ray" <dipit...@gmail.com>, "Dilip Dey" <DD...@aol.com>, "Goutam De" <gout...@hotmail.com>, "Harendranath Dakua" <dak...@gmail.com>, "Ishika Mitra" <ishika...@gmail.com>, "k d" <kdos...@yahoo.com>, "K T Karmachandran" <k.t.karm...@gmail.com>, "Kalyanbrata Ray" <ray.k...@gmail.com>, "Kamalakar Mukherjee" <mukherjee...@gmail.com>, "Mithun Roychowdhury" <roychowdhu...@gmail.com>, "nsr1946 rawat" <nsr...@hotmail.com>, "Prabal Sen" <pcse...@gmail.com>, "Prabhat Kumar" <ltcolpra...@rediffmail.com>, "Pradip Sengupta" <pradipk...@yahoo.co.in>, "Pradip Kumar Datta" <datta...@gmail.com>, "pradyot sarkar" <colps...@live.com>, "Pranab Chakraborty" <pranab...@rediffmail.com>, "Purnima Bhaskar" <bhas...@rediffmail.com>, "S N Chatterjee" <snch...@gmail.com>, "sankari.p chakraborty" <sanch...@gmail.com>, "Sarmila De" <d.sa...@gmail.com>, "Shakti Banerjee" <bans...@gmail.com>, "Sharad Nair" <majgen...@gmail.com>, "Shekhar Kumar Sen" <sen...@gmail.com>, "Shishir Chakravarty" <cols...@hotmail.com>, "Subir Kumar Majumdar" <subirma...@yahoo.com>, "Subodh Modak choudhuri" <subo...@yahoo.com>, "Sujit DAS" <changedb...@yahoo.in>, "Sunil Kar" <sunil...@gmail.com>, "swapankumar bidyananda" <bidyananda.s...@gmail.com>, "Tapas Bhattacharya" <tap...@gmail.com>, "Tushar Kanti Ghosh" <tkg...@yahoo.in> Date: Thursday, September 15, 2011, 3:53 PM Dear Friend,                   I was observing a particular tree species on the road side of Cooch Behar,for last few years,but I did not know what the species was.But I could make out that few of this species have been planted by forest department.Last month I saw the tree in bloom for the first time.From the shape and colour of the flowers I suspected ( being a non-botanist )the plant to be some species of Barringtonia.A search on Google confirmed it.It is Barringtonia racimosa.It is known as Samudraphala in Sanskrit.Attaching few images of the plant. Regards Col (Retd) Bimal Sarkar Mobile: 9434194942

[J.M. Garg]

Forwarding for Id confirmation or otherwise please.

Barringtonia racemosa (L.) Spreng. as per the Plant List:

http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-313527

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[H S]

Yes it is Barringtonia, but i am not confirm about the species,, i doubt for species racemosa???? it may be

regards,

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[ushadi Micromini]

Bimalda: Yes, like HS said it is indeed a barringtonia, and just like him I too cant be sure of the classification further... not sure..
Usha di
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[Gurcharan Singh]

Forwarding for ID

Distributed as  Barringtonia racemosa ?

Group discussion at

Fw: BARRINGTONIA RACIMOSA (google.com)

[Gurcharan Singh]

Forwarding for ID

Distributed as  Barringtonia racemosa ?

Group discussion at

Fw: BARRINGTONIA RACIMOSA (google.com)