Any relation of climate change to the color of butea monosperma turning yellow?

[Rakesh Biswas]

One of my friends pointed me to this link and i would be grateful for your opinion on it ( regarding the scientific validity of the claim etc):

http://www.bhaskar.com/article/MP-OTH-palash-saffron-yellow-flowers-now-beginning-to-1992725.html

Yellow Butea Monosperma is otherwise well described/documented ( independent of climatic effects ) http://pathabhavanpraktoni.net/main/?p=2084

regards,

rakesh

[Satya Prakash]

Dear Rakesh,

I am not Botanist or specialist on this topic but it is interesting and need justification.

If my field observations are concerned than we came across such individual plants in southern parts of Rajasthan. And also a question arise that if the coloration changes due to rise in temperature then there should occur major changes in all the saffron flowers of Butea in the hot parts of Rajasthan where lot of habitats are facing micro-climatic changes especially when it matters with temperature rise......!!!!!!!!!!

Regards

Satya Prakash Mehra, Ph. D.

Conservation Biologist

Rajputana Society of Natural History

Rajasthan, India

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From: Rakesh Biswas <rakesh...@gmail.com>
To: indiantreepix <indian...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 5 April 2011 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:66454] Any relation of climate change to the color of butea monosperma turning yellow?

[prasanna gogate]

very good view foe research..........thank you

[Rakesh Biswas]

Thanks Satya ji and Prasanna ji,

regards,

rakesh

[Mahadeswara]

Can you please send a translation of the article. I am interest as
I have some experience in GHG emissions and climate change.

On Apr 5, 10:25 pm, Rakesh Biswas <rakesh7bis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> One of my friends pointed me to this link and i would be grateful for your
> opinion on it ( regarding the scientific validity of the claim etc):
>

> http://www.bhaskar.com/article/MP-OTH-palash-saffron-yellow-flowers-n...

[Rakesh Biswas]

Thanks Mahadeswara ji, Unfortunately the web link currently is not functioning.

I was thinking of copy pasting the Hindi text onto google translator and then further modifying their output and presenting it to you.

The bottom line in the news-piece was just the documentation of an observation ( with images) and a hypothesis ( around currently yellowing leaves of palash and association with climate change ). It may need further study as pointed out by the others.

warm regards,

rakesh

[Na Bha]

I use http://translate.google.de/# for german to engl and engl to german.
I was surprised to see that reasonable good translation from Hindi to engl
and also to german is possible.
So try it.
Regards
Nalini

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From: "Mahadeswara" <swamy...@gmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 6:07 AM
Subject: [efloraofindia:66464] Re: Any relation of climate change to the
color of butea monosperma turning yellow?

[Pankaj Oudhia]

The variations in color of Butea flowers depend on many factors. By seeing Butea flowers from distance one can say with confidence about the water level or about last years rainfall. In Chhattisgarh near Dudhawa Dam region you can find Butea with nearly yellowish flowers. Because of high water level due to presence of big dam, Butea is showing different color. In the same area Shorea trees are dying prematurely due to same reason.

Just to add. I have documented seventeen different colors of Butea flowers and surprisingly every type of Butea color is of special significance in Traditional Healing. They differ in medicinal properties-the Healers claim. Hoping young researchers will come forward to conduct research on this unique aspect.

During last visit to forest I identified Butea population as 15 th type but the Healers traveling with me said it is 12 th type. May be I have to check my eyes. ;)

Diabetes Herbs. 12D. Butea monosperma © Pankaj Oudhia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_macrDWcq0

regards

Pankaj Oudhia