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What is TamilNadu's widely used key for Flora??🙄

Flora of Madras Presidency 🌿- By J.S. Gamble

Aka "Gamble", Totally consists of 3 volumes. With Floral Features, Vernacular names (In Tamil) and Taxonomical classification.

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Official Renders of Upcoming #Biodiversity park in Kadambur, near Maraimalai Nagar, Chengalpet Dt., spreads over in 300 acres. This Biodiversity park is set to establish in association with Royal Botanical Garden in #Kew with par standard with #KewGardens.

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As a Botanist, My joy is beyond measure while hearing a news, that, TN is going to have such a modern Biodiversity park 🌳 with our Tamil tradition in the par standard of Royal Botanical Garden in Kew & in associated with them 😍

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Kolukkumalai 🌴 is a small village in the Theni District of Tamil Nadu, on the border of Idukki District, Kerala. At 7,000 ft above sea level, it is home to the highest tea plantations in the world.

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Picture Speaks !

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From the Woods of South

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A Okra (𝑨𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒔 𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒔) plant which is sowed in our garden has 3 Cotyledonous leaves !

Is this possible ?

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Find what flower is this ?

Clue 🗝️ : Shallot and Leek are the close relatives to this plant !

Family : Amaryllidaceae 🌱

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During Elephant Census 2023 in #Kanyakumari wildlife sanctuary.

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#Yelagiri is a hill station located in the newly formed Tirupattur district of #TamilNadu. Located at an altitude of 1,110 metre and spread across 30 km2, the Yelagiri Hill is surrounded by orchards, rose-gardens, and green valleys.
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#Lofoten has distinctive scenery with dramatic mountains and peaks, open sea and sheltered bays, beaches and untouched lands.

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The #Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP) are a complex of one national park and three state parks, cooperatively managed and located in the United States along the coast of northern #California.

Area : 138,999 acres

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Rich Kalrayan Hills 🌿

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View of #Western_ghats on the way towards Ayyanar kovil waterfalls,Rajapalayam.The mountains of the Western ghats are to the west of the town (12 km from the town), and the Sanjeevi hills are to the east.
Vedio credits : life of dhanu & siddhu

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Did you know that orchids are one of the largest flowering groups with over 25,000 species?

This means that there are more species of orchid than mammals, birds and reptiles combined! 👀

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Christmas fern is a rhizomatous subterranean, decumbent, woody, densely scaly-scruffy evergreen in the Polypodiaceae family.  Found growing in rich rocky woods, along stream banks, in swamps or thickets to a height of 2 to 3 feet in a fountain-like form.

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The pigments involved in the colors are related to nutrient-rich colorful vegetables, so understanding the flowers' color-changing tricks could have downstream applications in improving nutrient yields in certain food crops.

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on the stage of its maturation cycle, and then change back to its original color. Although many flowers have been shown to change color depending on their maturation phase, Causonis japonica is the only known example of bidirectional color change....

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A plant common to Japan, Causonis japonica, is the first to show a newly discovered trait. Its flowers can change color depending on the stage of its maturation cycle, and then change back to its original color. Although many flowers have been shown to change color depending.....

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Massive Botanical garden is being developed in partnership with UK based Kew gardens 🇬🇧 in Chennai. Land finalised near Kadambur Village in Chengalpattu Dist. along GST Road. Area :338 Acres. DPR being prepared, Works to start in Mar-23.

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