[Assam] Bottle Brush?

[Chan Mahanta]

Where has Bottle brush come from? The flowers in the AT  picture are 
NOT Bottle-brush flowers. They are not even close :-).







At 7:22 PM +0530 4/1/08, mc mahant wrote:
>"Bottle Brush"  is close to the Weeping Willows  which interfered 
>with  my Punting(kind of push barging) along Cambridge University's 
>Cam (river) which was/is about 20' wide and 5' deep-- but to some- a 
>Romantic name and Tourist attraction in England.
>mm> From: mikemahant at hotmail.com> To: assam at assamnet.org> Date: Tue, 
>1 Apr 2008 19:13:06 +0530> Subject: Re: [Assam] AT Photo- A Quiz: 
>Chutiya Xalika> > > Flowers of "Bottle Brush"- a decorative bush 
>introduced into Assam Around 1950-- not from Indian Subcontinent.We 
>have a big "Bottle Brush" bush at the entrance to our ancestral home 
>at Namti. I remember bringing that sapling+Mahogany ones from a 
>Banamahotsav at Sivsagar in 1980> mm> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 05:41:26 
>-0700> From: dilipdeka at yahoo.com> To: assam at assamnet.org> Subject: 
>Re: [Assam] AT Photo- A Quiz: Chutiya Xalika> > Looks like the 
>bird's genus and name are now known. I am not too sure if the flower 
>has been identified quite definitely yet. I do remember seeing 
>flowers like in the photo that we used to call Modar. Aren't there 
>different varieties of Modar?> Dilip> 
>==========================================================> > Chan 
>Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:> Thanks Bikash for reminding 
>us of the Sutiya Xaalika name. Back at > Namti we called it that as 
>well--completely forgot about it.> > > > > > > > > > > At 3:15 AM 
>+0100 3/30/08, DR BIKASH KUMAR DAS wrote:> >Haaa... Dada This is 
>known in Darrang and Kamrup as CHUTIYA SHALIKA > >/XALIKA ( Chutiya 
>Shalka).They are the direct version of original > >Indian Mynah all 
>because they call talk like you and me. I had one > >before leaving 
>for Military.She used to talk and if I run will fly > >behind me and 
>sit on my shoulders... now when I saw this- I only > >tear for 
>her..She was with us for long and will sit in front of us > >always 
>like a part of family and look at us.Here also I tried to > >keep 
>one, but died due to some food poison.Its too painful to 
>miss > >them.So no more birds to sit on my shoulders..> > This bird 
>is very humanly and available in Bangalore also.But > >here people 
>are not like we Axomiya !! Forget about bird, they dnt > >know the 
>next home.> > Hope al doubt is clear now-> > Bikash> >> >Chan 
>Mahanta wrote:excellent Chitta! And > >thanks for sharing the 
>autherntic Oxomiya> >name, Kath Xaalika.Incidentally the widespread 
>, lowly Xaalika Sorai > >is a Mynah too. It is called Common Indian 
>Mynah.> >> >> >> > > >---------------------------------> > Why 
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