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‘unripe fruit’ and haṇṇu ‘ripe fruit’. In addition, the intermediate stage miḍi
‘fruit set’ is also named in Solega, but as these very small fruit are quite hard to
observe, this term is not commonly used in the context of tall rainforest trees. A
few examples of this type of knowledge are shown in Table 5.1 —the two con-
sultants NG and MRM were asked to freely recall the names of as many forest
trees as they could remember, and to describe their phenological status at the
Table 5.1 Excerpt from the author’s fi eld notes, showing NG and MRM’s knowledge of forest
tree phenology for the month of March
TreeCondition (26/03/09)baḷḷu
(bare)eḷa:ku
(new
leaves)ele
(leaves)muggu
(buds)hu:
(fl owers)ka:yi
(unripe
fruit)haṇṇu
(ripe
fruit)
matti ✓
bejja ✓
honne ✓
aranelli ✓
ka:ḍageru ✓
buḷuga ✓
bu:ta:ḷe ✓
i:raṇṇa ✓
oluge ✓
kagga:li ✓
toṭṭi ✓
anase ✓ ✓
soravilu ✓
kara:va:di ✓ ✓ ✓
kallicci ✓
biḷicci ✓
beṭṭasuṇḍe ✓
bu:ra ✓
udi ✓
kincaga ✓ ✓
araviḷu ✓ ✓
ke:silu ✓ ✓
torrema:vũ ✓ ✓
kaĩyebe:vu ✓ ✓ ✓
mutta:ga ✓ ✓
kaḍaba ✓
daḍasa:lu ✓ ✓
hatti ✓
ku:ḷi ✓
kallumuttaga ✓
gojja:li ✓
sappe ambu ✓ ✓5 Landscape Terms in Solega