AHMEDABAD: Adansonia digitata or Baobab, is a tree mostly found in the hot, dry savannah of the African continent, and was brought to Gujarat by the British, say foresters.

In Gujarat, the tree is commonly known as Rukhdo. Dr H S Singh, additional chief conservator of forest said this is an exotic tree which can survive for several hundred years.

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Students can study flora and fauna, collect samples and use museum library

Lush green premises:Research scholars can now make field trips to the zoo and the botanical garden.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The lush green premises of the museum and zoo in the State capital may soon become a hub of study and research.

Pune Nearly 10 years after the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) included the locally grown plant species Shindel Makudi, scientifically known as Frerea Indica, in the list of 12 most endangered plants on earth, the Botanical Survey of India (BSI) has come out with a study in which it claims that the plant is no longer on the verge of extinction and has grown in sizeble number

Mumbai For botanist couple Dr Marselin and Dr Sarah Almeida, life has become even more busy and fruitful post-retirement. For more than four decades, this zestful but low-profile duo from Goregaon has meticulously documented, studied and taught botany, working closely with the Bombay Natural History Society, the Blatter Herbarium of St.

Scientists make a sexually reproducing plant go asexual asexual reproduction does have certain advantages over sexual reproduction when it comes to plants. It is faster, easier and requires less energy. Production is higher too. Seeds produced asexually are clones of the mother plant and have exactly the same traits. This takes away the need for constant cross-breeding needed to retain

KOLKATA: The 230-year-old Indian Botanical Gardens are going to be renamed as Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Botanical Gardens.

Announcing this here, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh described the move as