Malvaceae week :: Thespesia populnea

[Dinesh Valke]

Thespesia populnea (L.) Sol. ex Corrêa

• thess-PEE-zee-uh -- from the Greek thespios (marvelous, divine)
  pop-ULL-nee-uh -- pertaining to or similar to Populus (poplar)

Apr 22, 2007 somewhere in Mira-Bhayander area of Mumbai


commonly known as: aden apple, bhendi tree, cork tree, Indian tulip tree, John-Bull tree, king of flowers, large-leaved tulip tree, milo (in Hawaii), Pacific rosewood, poor man's teak (in Tamilnadu, India), portia tree, seaside mahoe (in Florida), umbrella tree • Bengali: gajashundi, palaspipal, poresh • Gujarati: પારસ પિપળૉ paras piplo • Hindi: bhendi, gajadanda, पारस पीपल paras-pipal • Kannada: arasi, bangali • Malayalam: ചിലാന്തി cilaanthi, പൃപ്പരുത്തി prapparuththi, പൃവരശ് pravaras • Marathi: आष्ट aashta, आस aas, पारस भेंडी paras-bhendi, पारोसा पिंपळ parosa pimpal, पार्श्वपिंपळ parshvapimpal, पिंपरणी pimparani, पिंपरी pimpari • Sanskrit: पार्श्वपिप्पल parshwapippal • Tamil: பூவரசு puvarasu • Telugu: గంగరావి gangaravi

Native of: India

• ... Dec 8, 2007 at Sagar Upvan, Colaba, Mumbai
• ... Dec 8, 2007 at Sagar Upvan, Colaba, Mumbai
• ... Sep 26, 2009 at Pooja Farms (Resort) near Kolad
• ... Oct 13, 2009 at Vaghbil, Thane
• ... Dec 7, 2010 at Vaghbil, Thane
• ... more views: http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=91314344%40N00&q=Thespesiapopulnea&m=tags

Regards.
Dinesh

[Balkar Arya]

Aha!! great flowers and insects!!!

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Regards

Dr Balkar Singh
Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology
Arya P G College, Panipat
Haryana-132103
09416262964

[nitin kanitkar]

Dear Dinesh ji,

An old post of yours on the Thespesia populnea. The last image has a brilliant red insect on it. Found out that insect happens to be the Cotton Stainerhe or Pyrrhocoridae  which are a cosmopolitan family of pentatomomorphan bugs including about 65 genera and over 400 species.  The Thespesia populnea.is a host plant.

regards,

N Kanitkar

Gp Capt(retd)

[Ushadi Micromini]

link?

usha di

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