Calophyllum inophyllum - as they receive their first dunking

[raghu ananth]

Come June and it’s time to welcome the monsoons which announces its arrival with a burst of rainfall, sometimes accompanied by thunder and lightning. Soon, everything turns green and what a sight the trees make looking lush and beautiful as they receive their first dunking.

This time,  while at the Someshwara beach, west coast, we got to witness and experience the beauty of the monsoons., we saw this lovely specimen of a tree that bore both flowers and fruits.

 request the same to be identification (Hope it narrows down to Calophyllum inophyllum, clusiacea,  )

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calophyllum_inophyllum

 

habitat:    coastal region

place:      someshwar beach, Mangalore

date:        jun 8, 2008

 

Regards

Raghu / Sunita

 

 

 

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[J.M. Garg]

Hi, Raghu ji,

On going through, it's looks like what you have stated. I had photographs of the same tree clicked on 28/7/07 at Botanical Gardens, Kolkata with only a few flowers left. Here are more pictures of the tree at the link: http://www.hear.org/starr/hiplants/images/thumbnails/html/calophyllum_inophyllum.htm

For my Birds, Butterflies, Trees, Landscape pictures etc., visit http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/J.M.Garg

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