Flower ID request | AR02

[raghu ananth]

Flower ID request | AR02

Flower Opposite, size- small, 1 cms, plant height -2 meters, 

Chamundi Hills, Mysore

26 Jul 2008

Regards

Raghu

[Muthu Karthick]

Mimosa sp?

--
Muthu Karthick, N
Junior Research Fellow
Care Earth Trust

#15, second main road,

Thillai ganga nagar,
Chennai - 600 061

Mob: 09626833911
www.careearthtrust.org

[C KUNHIKANNAN]

It is Pterilobium
kunhikannan

--
Dr. C.Kunhikannan,
Division of Biodiversity,
Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding,
Forest Campus,  R.S.Puram,
Coimbatore-641002, Tamilnadu.

[tanay bose]

Pterolobium hexapetalum (Roth) Santapau & Wagh 

(kindly ignore the typo in the previous spelling of  Pterolobium )

Tanay

--

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)

ta...@interchange.ubc.ca

[Vijayasankar]

Yes this is Pterolobium hexapetalum, aptly known as 'travellers' terror'. It is good looking when its in flowering. Flowers are very fragrant. But we had had our toughest times with this plant in the field. While damaging your clothes and skin, it will apply frequent brakes during treks, with its spines that point all directions. 

Regards

 

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Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D.
Post Doctoral Research Associate
National Center for Natural Products Research
Thad Cochran Research Center
University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 38677
Phone: +1 662 915 1018