[efloraofindia:33541] Catunaregam spinosa-290410-PKA1

[Prashant awale]

Dear Friends,
Came across this Tree at Nagpur. Branches were having straight spines. 

Bot. name: Catunaregam spinosa
Family: Rubiaceae
Date/Time: 28-04-2010 / 07:25AM
Location: Near Gorewada Dam, Nagpur
Habitat- Wild
Plant Habit: Tree
Flowers: Fresh one were white and older one were Yellow and Orange


regards
Prashant
 

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[tanay bose]

Great to see a new plant and also such a variation in the flower color due to age of it..
Tanay

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[Parjanya guru]

Tanay jee and All..

.. you know.?

.. The color change is an indication that pollination is over already.

 Just to warn the next pollinator- You dont have anything to do..!!

:)

 

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[tanay bose]

Great information Parjanya Ji this is new to me thanks for updating my knowledge
Tanay

[Alok Goyal]

Hallo all 

here is an interesting fact about Catunaregam spinosa. the plant is a favourite of a bird named Shrike. 

Shrikes are small birds from the Laniidae, which is Latin for "butchers".  These are also known as "butcher-birds" and "thornbirds".  There are 31 species broken into 3 genera. Typically small birds, the various Shrikes have small hooked bills and banded faces.   Although these birds eat similar food to hawks and falcons, Shrikes cannot kill their prey with talons, as Falconiformes birds do.  To compensate, shrikes manipulate their heavy bills, to stun and then impale their prey upon thorn bushes and trees, and even barbed wire.  Shrikes sometimes eat their prey while it is impaled and still alive, while other times leave their prey impaled as storage for later consumption.  Their prey consists of insects, worms, small mammals, and birds. please see two attached photos (source of photos is internet).

Alok

[Parjanya guru]

.. good stuff of Information Alok jee....

.. Please tag the reference  along....

 
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[tanay bose]

Really a great set of amazing but interesting information .. Thanks for sharing
Tanay

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[Neil Soares]

Hi Dr.Alok,   Interesting information from the internet, but have never seen it happening with this tree. Have plenty of these trees on my property. Sending some of my photographs [including the last 2 which were taken by my friend Jayesh Timbadia and posted by me on this site last year].                             With regards,                               Neil Soares. --- On Fri, 4/30/10, Alok Goyal <alok...@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Alok Goyal <alok...@gmail.com> Subject: [efloraofindia:33560] Catunaregam spinosa-290410-PKA1 To: indian...@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, April 30, 2010, 10:29 AM Hallo all  here is an interesting fact about Catunaregam spinosa. the plant is a favourite of a bird named Shrike.  Shrikes are small birds from the Laniidae, which is Latin for "butchers".  These are also known as "butcher-birds" and "thornbirds".  There are 31 species broken into 3 genera. Typically small birds, the various Shrikes have small hooked bills and banded faces.   Although these birds eat similar food to hawks and falcons, Shrikes cannot kill their prey with talons, as Falconiformes birds do.  To compensate, shrikes manipulate their heavy bills, to stun and then impale their prey upon thorn bushes and trees, and even barbed wire.  Shrikes sometimes eat their prey while it is impaled and still alive, while other times leave their prey impaled as storage for later consumption.  Their prey consists of insects, worms, small mammals, and birds. please see two attached photos (source of photos is internet).

Alok

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[Madhuri Pejaver]

Shrike is therefore called as Khatic in Marathii

Madhuri

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