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[shriharsha nitsture]

Dear all

 

Today at Gate way of India (Mumbai) just below the Shivaji Maharaj statue we observed a handsome tree as big as plumeria alba, with a dense canopy of large, pointy, smooth (?) about 25 to 30 cm long. Flowers: plumeria alba type white flowers with elephant apple type green  fruits. The leaves were frangipany type.

 

Regards

 

shriharsha nitsure

[Vijayasankar]

Well described! It looks like a Yellow-eyed pong pong tree (Cerbera odollam), a coastal tree belonging to the family Apocynaceae; said to be poisonous...

 

Regards 

 

Vijayasankar Raman
National Center for Natural Products Research
University of Mississippi

[Tanay Bose]

Yes Cerbera odollam as indicated by Vijaya ji

Tanay

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Tanay Bose

Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant.
Department of Botany.
University of British Columbia .
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[Mahadeswara]

A beautiful specimen tree is seen in Madras Theosophical Society
Campus, Chennai.

On Aug 6, 10:45 pm, Tanay Bose <tanaybos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes Cerbera odollam as indicated by Vijaya ji
> Tanay
>

> On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Vijayasankar <vijay.botan...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>
> > Well described! It looks like a Yellow-eyed pong pong tree (Cerbera
> > odollam), a coastal tree belonging to the family Apocynaceae; said to be
> > poisonous...
>
> > Regards
>
> > Vijayasankar Raman
> > National Center for Natural Products Research
> > University of Mississippi
>
> > On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 11:00 AM, shriharsha nitsture <
> > sr_nits...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>
> >> Dear all
>
> >> Today at Gate way of India (Mumbai) just below the Shivaji Maharaj statue
> >> we observed a handsome tree as big as plumeria alba, with a dense canopy of
> >> large, pointy, smooth (?) about 25 to 30 cm long. Flowers: plumeria alba
> >> type white flowers with elephant apple type green  fruits. The leaves were
> >> frangipany type.
>
> >> Regards
>
> >> shriharsha nitsure
>
> --

> *Tanay Bose*

> Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant.
> Department of Botany.
> University of British Columbia .
> 3529-6270 University Blvd.
> Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada)
> Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile)
>            604-822-2019 (Lab)
>            604-822-6089  (Fax)
> ta...@interchange.ubc.ca

> *Webpages:*http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/mberbee.htmlhttp://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/gradstud.htmlhttps://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/