ID request -16022011-PKA1

[Prashant awale]

Dear Friends,

I had seen this climbing herb at CBD Belapur hills, Navi Mumbai.

Date/Time: 16-02-2011 / 09:15AM
Location: CBD Belapur Hills, Navi Mumbai
Habitat: Wild
Plant Habit: Herb (around 1m long)
Leaves: Alternate
Flowers: Yellow, Flower head around 3 to 4mm.

regards
Prashant

[Dinesh Valke]

Baliospermum montanum ... commonly known as: red physic nut, wild castor, wild croton, wild sultan seed • Bengali: দন্তী danti, দন্তিগাছ dantigaacha • Hindi: दन्ती danti • Kannada: ದಮ್ತಿ damti, ಕಾಡು ಹರಳು kaadu haralu, ನಾಗದಮ್ತಿ naagadamti • Konkani: baktumbo • Malayalam: ചെറിയദന്തി ceriyadanthi, നാഗദന്തി naagadanthi • Marathi: दंती danti, कातरी katari • Nepalese: अजय पाल ajaya pal, दुधे झार dudhe jhaar • Oriya: ଏକ ପ୍ରକାରର ଔଷଧ • Sanskrit: दन्ती danti, दन्तिका dantika, दीर्घ dirgha, एरण्डपत्रिका erandhapatrika, एरण्डफला erandhaphala, मकूलकः makulakah, नागदन्ती nagadanti, नागविन्ना nagavinna, निकुम्भः nikumbha, प्रत्यक्श्रेणी pratyaksreni, रेचनी rechani, रूक्षा ruksha, शीघ्रा shigra, विशल्य vishalya, उडुम्बरपर्णी udumbaraparni • Tamil: பேயாமணக்கு pey-amanakku • Telugu: అడవి ఆముదము adavi amudamu, కొండ ఆముదము kond amudamu, నేల జీడి nela jidi, నేపాళము nepalamu

Regards.
Dinesh

[Prashant awale]

Perfect. Thanks Dinesh for the ID. I had seen this plant for the first time.

 I had spotted 2 beetles on it and both gave good pose to my camera.

regards
Prashant

2011/2/16 Dinesh Valke <dinesh...@gmail.com>

[Neil Soares]

Hi,  They are not beetles but Jewel bugs [Chrysocoris stolli].                    Regards,                     Neil Soares. --- On Wed, 2/16/11, Prashant awale <pka...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Prashant awale]

Thanks Neil ji.
regards
Prashant

[Dinesh Valke]

Thanks to Nayan ji who had provided me this ID long ago !!
This herbaceous shrub is not a climbing herb as much have observed in forests around Thane ... though of course, the plant often grows slant up to a metre or two.

Regards.
Dinesh.

[tanay bose]

Baliospermum montanum previously this was in genus Jatropha

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[Pankaj Kumar]

This is very strange. Does this bug love Euphorbiaceae plants? If
anyone can throw some light on this. May be it loves Euphorbian latex
:))
I have seen it on Securinega most of the times.
Regards
Pankaj

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[Smilax004]

Nice observation from the pictures by Pankaj ji. This bug and other
relatives of this bug is a florivore. Generally they love to feed on
flower buds at its tender stage sometimes I saw them feeding the
nectary as well. My present study on Syzygium involves predation as
well. There I use to see a bug (we havent identified it) feeding on
the nectary and they partially damages the nectary and few occasions
it ultimately damages the flower itself. One has to check whether the
bug feed on the latex of Euphorbiacean members.
More studies are now on track to record the predation of several
species.
It happens with orchid flowers as well especially ground orchids.

Regards
Giby

On Feb 17, 7:46 pm, Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is very strange. Does this bug love Euphorbiaceae plants? If
> anyone can throw some light on this. May be it loves Euphorbian latex
> :))
> I have seen it on Securinega most of the times.
> Regards
> Pankaj
>
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> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Dinesh Valke <dinesh.va...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks to Nayan ji who had provided me this ID long ago !!
> > This herbaceous shrub is not a climbing herb as much have observed in
> > forests around Thane ... though of course, the plant often grows slant up to
> > a metre or two.
>
> > Regards.
> > Dinesh.
>

> > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Prashant awale <pkaw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Perfect. Thanks Dinesh for the ID. I had seen this plant for the first
> >> time.
>
> >>  I had spotted 2 beetles on it and both gave good pose to my camera.
>
> >> regards
> >> Prashant
>

> >> 2011/2/16 Dinesh Valke <dinesh.va...@gmail.com>

>
> >>> Baliospermum montanum ... commonly known as: red physic nut, wild castor,
> >>> wild croton, wild sultan seed • Bengali: দন্তী danti, দন্তিগাছ dantigaacha •
> >>> Hindi: दन्ती danti • Kannada: ದಮ್ತಿ damti, ಕಾಡು ಹರಳು kaadu haralu, ನಾಗದಮ್ತಿ
> >>> naagadamti • Konkani: baktumbo • Malayalam: ചെറിയദന്തി ceriyadanthi,
> >>> നാഗദന്തി naagadanthi • Marathi: दंती danti, कातरी katari • Nepalese: अजय पाल
> >>> ajaya pal, दुधे झार dudhe jhaar • Oriya: ଏକ ପ୍ରକାରର ଔଷଧ • Sanskrit: दन्ती
> >>> danti, दन्तिका dantika, दीर्घ dirgha, एरण्डपत्रिका erandhapatrika, एरण्डफला
> >>> erandhaphala, मकूलकः makulakah, नागदन्ती nagadanti, नागविन्ना nagavinna,
> >>> निकुम्भः nikumbha, प्रत्यक्श्रेणी pratyaksreni, रेचनी rechani, रूक्षा
> >>> ruksha, शीघ्रा shigra, विशल्य vishalya, उडुम्बरपर्णी udumbaraparni • Tamil:
> >>> பேயாமணக்கு pey-amanakku • Telugu: అడవి ఆముదము adavi amudamu, కొండ ఆముదము
> >>> kond amudamu, నేల జీడి nela jidi, నేపాళము nepalamu
>
> >>> Regards.
> >>> Dinesh
>

> >>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Prashant awale <pkaw...@gmail.com>

[Neil Soares]

Hi,  Sending some of my photographs of the Jewel Bug [Chrysocoris stolli] taken at my farm at Shahapur.                         With regards,                           Neil Soares. --- On Thu, 2/17/11, Smilax004 <giby.ku...@gmail.com> wrote: