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Re: Trees in my garden
Posted: December 21st, 2013, 4:37 am
by M Farooq
Excellent! You certainly have a rare collection of flowering plants. Keep educating us about your collections...we will create profiles of interesting plants with time in our slowly our steadily growing database.
Re: Trees in my garden
Posted: December 22nd, 2013, 10:15 am
by mikhurram
4. Ravenala madagascariensis (Travellers-Tree)
Because of its curious appearance and remarkable fan shaped leaves, the Travellers-Tree bears similarity to both Banana and Palm plants. Its deep green leaves extend from the trunk resembling a fan. It is related to the Strelitzias (Bird of Paradise family) The common name of this plants suggest its use, for, if a hole is bored through a leaf base near the stem, up to a pint of remarkably good drinking water wells out helping quench the thirst of weary travellers.
It tends to produce suckers (also visible in the images) and also produces seeds which I have yet to see and they supposedly blue in colour. It’s still a mystery that why the colour of seeds is blue? Botanists believe it is related to Lemurs who along with this plant are from Madagascar. Lemurs pollinate this tree by sticking their long tongues to reach the nectars inside the flowers and by doing so transfer pollen from plant to plant. Upon successful pollination the seeds pods develop. The fuzzy blue appendage attached to seeds is eaten and fancied by Lemurs who also help to disperse seeds and are only capable of seeing green or blue colour.
Flowers are white and this this tree can be grown both in full sun or part shade/sun and tolerates all types of soil. It is commonly available in all nurseries.
Re: Trees in my garden
Posted: December 22nd, 2013, 11:25 am
by M Farooq
Dear Khurram sb, could you fill in the details about your last two trees at your convenience? Your plants would be good addition to the database...
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Family | ABC |
Genus | ABC |
Specie | ABC |
Local Name in Urdu | ABC |
Common Name | ABC |
Life Cycle | ABC |
Cultivar Name | ABC |
Fragrant or Not | ABC |
Category(Bush/Vine/Tree) | ABC |
Height | ABC |
Spacing | ABC |
Flowering Months | ABC |
Flower Color | ABC |
Growing Areas | ABC |
Frost Tender | ABC |
Exposure | ABC |
Soil pH | ABC |
Propagation | ABC |
Uses | ABC |
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Re: Trees in my garden
Posted: December 22nd, 2013, 11:42 am
by mikhurram
Dr farooq shall do so but the form template is not accessible on the main page. Or can you message me your email address along with the sample template. I'll fill it up.
Regards
Re: Trees in my garden
Posted: December 22nd, 2013, 12:11 pm
by M Farooq
Thanks. I have pm'ed my email to you.
Re: Trees in my garden
Posted: December 24th, 2013, 2:13 pm
by mikhurram
Re: Trees in my garden
Posted: December 25th, 2013, 8:29 pm
by aykhan
Check out my Uncarina
viewtopic.php?f=65&t=1738&start=130
I thought mine is Uncarina ducreyi but not sure. I took 3 cuttings in monsoon and stuck them in a peaty mix. All three rooted in negligence are doing fine. The cuttings are not dormant but the mother plant just went dormant. I bought mine for Rs 2000 if I remember correctly (asking was Rs 3500 I think from Abbas)
Re: Trees in my garden
Posted: December 26th, 2013, 11:34 am
by Muhammad Arif Khan
Mine were planted in 2010
Look at the display, I am happy with them;
Bees love them;
Arif
Re: Trees in my garden
Posted: December 26th, 2013, 11:44 am
by mikhurram
Sir it is indeed spectacular and all the photos especially of the bee have been captured very nicely. Thank you for informing us that bees love them which can be added in the plant profile in the database section. Even myself was unaware of this useful information and used to think that the flowers of this tree had no utility and served merely an ornamental purpose.
Lemon Trees
Posted: January 29th, 2014, 4:54 pm
by mikhurram
Chinese Lemon variety is the most productive variety.
Lemon probably has the most varied usage than any other citrus fruit variety. Richness of Vitamin C makes lemon an indispensable part of our diet. It is used to flavour fish, meat, puddings, salad dressings and inevitably used in soft drinks and green tea etc.
The native home of lemon is believed to the warm, humid location in northern Burma or Assam in eastern India.
The Arabs are credited for introducing lemon and lime to Persia, Palestine and Egypt and from there onwards lemon was introduced to Europe via the Mediterranean belt in particular Italy where the cultivation of lemon picked up.
Chinese Lemon