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Maharashtra Nature Park:Plants and tropical trees

MNP ( Maharashtra Nature Park ) Sion, Mumbai Location and Speciality:


Green Heaven in center of concrete city Mumbai, Maharashtra Nature Park (MNP) which was once called Mahim Nature Park is located at Bandra Sion link road, exactly opposite side of Dharavi slums. This nature park has magical Woodland with 14 thousand trees, 300 varieties of plants with few as herbs, a lake, 100s of varieties of migrating birds, insects, beautiful butterflies, reptiles and few mammals too..

Plants:
MNP attracts plant lovers too, with a wide range of about 300 variety of plants with some rare having herbal qualities, explore this park with ranger who will guide you to each of this important plant as shown on his map. Official of Maharashtra nature park now grow the varieties of plant endemic in nature. All this plant with flora and faunas around attracts those tiny beautiful butterflies in group which is an unexpected experience in Mumbai city. Teak,Cordia dichotoma (Lasora), Neolamarckia cadamba (Kadamba) are some of the plants in this green park.

Information About the planyts mentioned above: Teak:


Teak is the common name for the tropical hardwood tree species Tectona grandis and its wood [1] products. Tectona grandis is native to south and southeast Asia, mainly India,Indonesia, Malaysia, and Burma, but is naturalized and cultivated in many countries, including those in Africa and the Caribbean. Burma accounts for nearly one third of the world's total teak production The word teak comes from the Tamil word thekku. This tree is mentioned in the seventh-century literature of Tamil popularly known as the Tevaram. In Bengali it is called 'Segun' or more commonly as Sagwan in various Indian languages. Tectona grandis is a large, deciduous tree that is dominant in mixed hardwood forests. It has small, fragrant white flowers and papery leaves that are often hairy on the lower surface

Description
Tectona grandis is a large, deciduous tree up to 40 m (131 ft) tall with gray to grayish brown branchlets. Leaves are ovate-elliptic to ovate, 1545 cm (5.917.7 in) long by 823 cm (3.19.1 in) wide, and are held on robust petioles that are 24 cm (0.81.6 in) long. Leaf margins are entire

Flower, fruit & leaves of Tectona grandisin Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

U Bein Bridge Amarapura, Myanmar. The longest teak bridge in the world at 1.2 km (0.75 mi) in length.

Fragrant white flowers are borne on 2540 cm (1016 in) long by 30 cm (12 in) wide paniclesfrom June to August. The corolla tube is 2.53 mm long with 2 mm wide obtuse lobes.Tectona grandis sets fruit from September to December; fruits are globose and 1.2-1.8 cm in diameter.
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Flowers are

weakly protandrous in that the anthers precede the stigma in maturity and pollen is shed within a few hours of the flower opening. The flowers are primarily entomophilous (insect-pollinated), but can
[5]

occasionally be anemophilous (wind-pollinated).


Uses

A 1996 study found that in its native range in Thailand,

the major pollinator were species in the Ceratina genus of bees.

Teak is used extensively in India to make doors and window frames, furniture, and columns and beams in old type houses. It is very resistant to termite attacks. Mature teak fetches a very good price. It is grown extensively by forest departments of different states in forest areas. Teak is often an effective material for the construction of both indoor and outdoor furniture. Teak's high oil content, strong tensile strength and tight grain makes it particularly suitable for outdoor furniture applications. Over time teak can mature to a silvery-grey finish.Teak is also used in Boat-Building.

Cordia dichotoma (Lasora)


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cordia dichotoma

Cordia dichotoma leaves in Hyderabad, India.

Scientific classification

Kingdom:

Plantae

(unranked):

Angiosperms

(unranked):

Eudicots

(unranked):

Asterids

Order:

(unplaced)

Family:

Boraginaceae

Genus:

Cordia

Species:

C. dichotoma

Binomial name

Cordia dichotoma
G.Forst.[1]

Cordia dichotoma is a species of flowering tree in the borage family, Boraginaceae, that is native to the Indomalaya ecozone, northern Australia, and western Melanesia.[1] Common names include fragrant manjack, snotty gobbles, glue berry, pink pearl, bird lime tree,Indian cherry, lasoda (Hindi) and lasura (Nepali). The fruit is known as pho-p-ch in Taiwan.

Description
Cordia dichotoma is a small to moderate-sized deciduous tree with a short bole and spreading crown. The stem bark is greyish brown, smooth or longitudinally wrinkled. Flowers are short-stalked, bisexual, white in colour which open only at night. The fruit is a yellow or pinkish-yellow shining globose which turns black on ripening and the pulp gets viscid.

Uses
The immature fruits are pickled and are also used as a vegetable fodder. The leaves also yield good fodder. The seed kernel has medicinal properties.It is often cultivated for its fruits throughout the range of its natural distribution. In Burma, the Pa-O people grow the tree (called "thanapet") for its edible leaves.

Neolamarckia cadamba (Kadamba)


Neolamarckia cadamba, commonly called Kadam (Bengali),an evergreen, tropical tree native to South and Southeast Asia. The genus name "Lamarckia" is derived from the name of French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Description
A fully mature Kadam tree can reach up to 45m in height. It is a large tree with a broad crown and straight cylindrical bole. It is quick growing, with broad spreading branches and grows rapidly in the first 6-8 years. The trunk has a diameter of 100-160 cm, but typically less than that. Leaves are 13-32 cm long. Flowering usually begins when the tree is 45 years old. Kadam flowers are sweetly fragrant, red to orange in colour, occurring in dense, globular heads of approximately 5.5 cm diameter. The fruit of N. cadamba occur in small, fleshy capsules packed closely together to form a fleshy yellow-orange infructescence containing approximately 8000 seeds. On maturing, the fruit splits apart, releasing the seeds, which are then dispersed by wind or rain.

Botanical Features
Some botanical features are detailed below: Leaves glossy green, opposite, simple more or less sessile to petiolate, ovate to elliptical (15-50 x 8 25 cm). Flowers inflorescence in clusters; terminal globose heads without bracteoles, subsessile fragrant, orange or yellow flowers; Flowers bisexual, 5-merous, calyx tube funnel-shaped, corolla gamopetalous saucer-shaped with a narrow tube, the narrow lobes imbricate in bud. Stamens 5, inserted on the corolla tube, filaments short, anthers basifixed. Ovary inferior, bi-locular, sometimes 4-locular in the upper part, style exserted and a spindle-shaped stigma. Fruitlets numerous with their upper parts containing 4 hollow or solid structures. Seed trigonal or irregularly shaped. N. lamarckia is native to the following areas: Southern China Indian subcontinent: India (n. & w.); Bangladesh; Nepal; Sri Lanka Southeast Asia: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam, Indonesia; Malaysia;Papua New Guinea

Uses:
The caterpillars of the Commander (Limenitis procris), a brush-footed butterfly, utilize this species as a foodplant. The fruit and inflorescences are reportedly edible to humans. The fresh leaves are fed to cattle. The fragrant orange flowers attract pollinators. It is sapwoodwhite with a light yellow tinge becoming creamy yellow on exposure and is not clearly differentiated from the heartwood.

Leaves & flowers

N. lamarckia is grown as an ornamental, and for low-grade timber and paper. The timber is used for plywood, light construction, pulp and paper, boxes and crates, dug-out canoes, and furniture components.

Kadamba yields a pulp of satisfactory brightness and performance as a hand sheet. The wood can be easily impregnated with synthetic resins to increase its density and compressive strength. The wood has a density of 290560 kg/cu m at 15% moisture content, a fine to medium texture; straight grain; low luster and has no characteristic odor or taste. It is easy to work with hand and machine tools, cuts cleanly, gives a very good surface and is easy to nail. The timber air dries rapidly with little or no degrade. Kadamba wood is very easy to preserve using either open tank or pressure-vacuum systems. Kadamba is stated to be one of the most frequently planted trees in the tropics. A yellow dye is obtained from the root bark. Kadamba flowers are an important raw material in the production of attar, which is Indian perfume with sandalwood (Santalum spp.) base in which one of the essences is absorbed through hydro-distillation. The flowers exhibit slight anti-implantation activity in test animals. Kadamba extracts exhibit nematicidal effects on Meloidogyne incognita. The dried bark is used to relieve fever and as a tonic. An extract of the leaves serves as a mouth gargle. The tree is grown along avenues, roadsides and villages for shade. Kadamba are suitable for reforestation programs. It sheds large amounts of leaf and non-leaf litter which on decomposition improves some physical and chemical properties of soil under its canopy. This reflects an increase in the level of soil organic carbon, cation exchange capacity, available plant nutrients and exchangeable bases. Kadamb tree leaves are also used for treating diabetes. A drug made from this tree is patented

========================The End============================ -Info by @ Deep Thakkar

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