Kigelia africana from Delhi

[Gurcharan Singh]

Some recently clicked photographs of Sausage Tree Kigelia africana

 

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[Pravir]

Thanks for uploading the photo. Now a days it is on flowering. I got
the flowers during the morning walk and trying to remember the name of
plant, but didnt gate and at last its here.

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[Satish Chile]

  Excellent Photos Pravir ji. Kigelia africana in Seoni and Balaghat district of M.P. is called "Garud Tree". As the story goes... some snke chrmers with their snakes in the basket stayed one night under this tree in the nearby village. Next morning to their surprise they found all snakes were dead. So villagers named this tree as "Garud tree" (after the name of the Eagle which kills snakes). Villagers believe that if any snake comes under the tree it would die.

Any such reports......from your side???

Satish

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[Pravir]

Satish ji the photographs is by Dr. Gurcharan Singh Sir

[Satish Chile]

Thank u for the correction Pravir ji. Now I would like to attract the attention of Gurucharan ji. Hello Veer ji.

Satish

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Satish ji the photographs is by Dr. Gurcharan Singh Sir

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[Satish Chile]

Gurucharan ji, I wrote some comments about Kigelia africana. Would you mind to go through Sir.

Satish 

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[Pravir]

Satish ji the information is nice, but in Delhi and Grgaon this plant
is extensively planted near by the roads. I didint hear any thing as
you say.

On Apr 15, 4:16 pm, Satish Chile <chilesat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Gurucharan ji, I wrote some comments about Kigelia africana. Would you mind
> to go through Sir.
> Satish
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>
>
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Some recently clicked photographs of Sausage Tree Kigelia africana
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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
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[Satish Phadke]

Excellent clean pictures Gurcharan ji
Didynamous nature of stamens can be made out typical of Family Bignoniaceae
The flowers are pollinated by bats I suppose so they bloom during night. If one has to take the pictures need to take them at night or very early morning.
Dr Phadke

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[rashida atthar]

Very Nice Pics sir, Thanks for sharing.
 
regards,
Rashida.


 

 

 

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Satish ji

I took these pictures around 9 am. Most of my pictures are between 8-9.30 am

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GREAT PHOTOS SIR JI.... 

"WHAT AN IDEA SIR JI"

 

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[Balkar Arya]

Dear Gurcharan Ji
Lovely Photographs!!!
Thanks for sharing

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[shobha chavda]

Dear Satishji,
I had read somewhere that the flowers are pollinated by " Fruit
Bats".Are these bats different than the regular bats? are they smaller
in size ?
Shobha

On Apr 15, 5:51 pm, Satish Phadke <phadke.sat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Excellent clean pictures Gurcharan ji

> *Didynamous* nature of stamens can be made out typical of Family

> Bignoniaceae
> The flowers are pollinated by bats I suppose so they bloom during night. If
> one has to take the pictures need to take them at night or very early
> morning.
> Dr Phadke
>

> On 15 April 2010 09:47, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Some recently clicked photographs of Sausage Tree Kigelia africana
>
> > --
> > 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

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[Gurcharan Singh]

Shobha ji

Fruit bats also known as megabats are not necessarily larger or smaller than other bats called microbats, although most are larger. They can be as small as 6 cm (smaller than microbats) to as long as 40 cm (wing span up to 150 cm). They are also known as flying foxes and differ in two characters from microbats. Firstly they have very large eyes which allows them to navigate in caves and  and forests twilight, and unlike microbats they don't have echolocation capability. These fruit bats eat both nectar and fruits and bring about pollination.

Here is some more information:

Pollination studies suggest that the most important pollination vectors are bats. However, unlike most bat-pollinated flowers which are characteristically white or cream, the flowers of Kigelia africana are reddish to purplish; the strong unpleasant odour is likely to be the primary attractant. Fruits may remain on the tree for up to 6 months.

The flowers, which, after some, have a rather unpleasant smell, open in sequence and remain open for one night only and are usually pollinated by bats; when one flower is pollinated, the other buds belonging to the same inflorescence usually abort, and this to avoid the presence of many fruits on the same peduncle, which could not bear their weight. 

Their sweet nectar is drunk by bats, baboons, monkeys, sunbirds, herd boys tending lifestock, and other creatures.

The wrinkles in flowers are used as a grip by the bats to prevent them from slipping from the flowers while they are drinking.

 

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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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[Neil Soares]

Hi Shobha,    If I may answer your question –        All Fruit bats [Family Pteropodidae] are medium to large-sized bats with fur on their bodies, long snouts with simple noses and ears & no / small tails.      As fruit-eaters they are responsible for the destruction of fruit as well as for seed dispersal [because of their habit of carrying away fruit to their distant roosts].      While drinking nectar they also help in pollination of flowers. Generally flowers pollinated by bats are white in colour, have a strong odour, open after dusk, with an inflorescence usually in the open at the top of the tree – a typical example being Oroxylum indicum [locally called Tetu / Ullu].        Of the 5 species of Large and 8 species of Medium-sized Fruit bats found in India,  have encountered only one of each on my property. They are: The Indian Flying Fox / Indian Fruit Bat [Pteropus giganteus] – a colony roosting on one of my Mohua [Madhuca indica] trees. The Short-nosed Fruit Bat [Cynopterus sphinx] roosting on one of my Jarul [Lagerstroemia flos-regina] trees.   Also have a cave with Dusky Leaf-nosed Bats, but that’s another story.   Sending you a few photographs.                         With regards,                          Neil Soares. --- On Fri, 4/16/10, Gurcharan Singh <sing...@gmail.com> wrote:

[shobha chavda]

Thanx Neil and Gurcharanji.
Shobha

[Gurcharan Singh]

Thanks Neil ji, for detailed information

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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/