Calotropis gigantea

[Samir Mehta]

October 24, 2010.
Mumbai


Regards,

Samir Mehta

[Balkar Arya]

Really Nice pics Samir ji


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

Here are mine from Delhi with white photographs

The differences between C. procera and C. gigantea are illustrated by me in the following thread.

http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/17357d6b759e0614/b5a0eb711aa2ab63?lnk=gst&q=differences+Calotropis+gigantea+and+C.+procera#b5a0eb711aa2ab63

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SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089
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[Dinesh Valke]

NATIVE :: Asclepiadaceae (milkweed family) ~ Apocynaceae » Calotropis gigantea


kal-LOW-troh-pis -- from the Greek kalos (beautiful) and tropis (ship)
jy-GAN-tee-uh or gy-GAN-tee-uh -- large, gigantic


commonly known as: bowstring hemp, calotrope, crown flower, giant milkweed, swallow-wort • Bengali: আকন্দ aakanda • Hindi: अर्क arka, सफ़ैद आक safed aak • Malayalam: ചുവന്നഎരിക്ക് chuvannaerikk, വെള്ളെരിക്ക് vellerikk • Manipuri: অংকোত angkot • Marathi: अर्क arka, अर्की arki, रुई rui, रुइटी ruiti • Sanskrit: alarka, अर्क arka, अर्की arki, हृस्वअग्निः hrasvagnih, सदापुष्प sadapushpa • Tamil: எருக்கு erukku, மலையெருக்கு malaiyerukku • Telugu: జిల్లేడి పువ్వు jilledi puvvu, జిల్లేడు jilledu, నల్లజిల్లేడు nallajilledu, ఉచ్చింత uccinta, ఉచ్చిత uchchinta


Native to: India


Attached views from various locations; commonly found all over, in and around Thane and Mumbai
... for more views: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Calotropisgigantea&w=91314344%40N00&m=tags

[Pankaj Kumar]

Latinically speaking it should be pronounced as gy-GAN-tee-uh as there
is no G (JEE as in jeep) in latin but there is G which is pronounced a
GA as in Goat!!

Hope this is understandable !!

Pankaj

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Dinesh Valke <dinesh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> NATIVE :: Asclepiadaceae (milkweed family) ~ Apocynaceae » Calotropis
> gigantea
>
>
> kal-LOW-troh-pis -- from the Greek kalos (beautiful) and tropis (ship)
> jy-GAN-tee-uh or gy-GAN-tee-uh -- large, gigantic
>
>
> commonly known as: bowstring hemp, calotrope, crown flower, giant milkweed,

> swallow-wort • Bengali: আকন্দ aakanda • Hindi: अर्क arka, सफ़ैद आक safed aak

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[Balkar Arya]

Splitted fruit looking very nice

[Pankaj Kumar]

found this guy sitting on leaves of above plant one day. This is
called Chirixalus dudhwaensis an endemic frog of India, likely to be
found in Nepal.

Enjoy.
Pankaj

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[Gurcharan Singh]

Really interesting catch Pankaj ji

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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ 

[Prashant awale]

Too good.
regards
Prashant

[Pankaj Kumar]

Thanks a lot sirs :)
Pankaj