Trees of Bangalore - RA - Simarouba glauca - Paradise Tree

[raman]

The tree starts flowering and fruiting at about three years of age. Flowering is annual beginning in December and continuing up to February. The tree starts bearing when they are 4-6 years old and reach stability in production of another 4-5 years. The droplets (blackish purple in pink genotypes and brownish yellow in green genotypes) are ready for harvest by March/April. Season and duration of reproductive phenoperiods vary according to location and climate. Individual fruits have a development and ripening period of 1-2 months. Fruit is ellipsoid drupe, 2 - 2.5 cm long, with thin hard cuticle and juicy fruit pulp.

Raman

[Balkar Singh]

Again nice Catch

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 8:49 AM, raman <raman_ar...@yahoo.com> wrote:

The tree starts flowering and fruiting at about three years of age. Flowering is annual beginning in December and continuing up to February. The tree starts bearing when they are 4-6 years old and reach stability in production of another 4-5 years. The droplets (blackish purple in pink genotypes and brownish yellow in green genotypes) are ready for harvest by March/April. Season and duration of reproductive phenoperiods vary according to location and climate. Individual fruits have a development and ripening period of 1-2 months. Fruit is ellipsoid drupe, 2 - 2.5 cm long, with thin hard cuticle and juicy fruit pulp.

Raman

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Dr Balkar Singh
Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology
Arya P G College, Panipat
Haryana-132103
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[Mahadeswara]

Thanks for sharing the nice photographs of the paradise tree.  Can you please mention the location in Bangalore , so that it would be easier for me to locate when I visit B'lore. Send a CC to my mail ID so that I will not miss.

[raman]

First I saw two near Kairali niketan school in indiranagar, and two in national games village.

Two beautiful trees are in Lalbagh.

Raman