[Assam] AT Photo- A Quiz: Chutiya Xalika

[W.Saleh]

The Bottle Brush flowers (Genus Callistemon) - for more information see
Australian National Botanic Gardens.
http://www.anbg.gov.au/callistemon/index.html 

Bottle Brush is a native of Australia. As such I assume that the British has
introduce them to India and most probably the tea planters planted it in
their gardens in Assam. In that case it was in Assam long before 1950. 

Wahid Saleh

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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.> >>
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