Tell about flora of Delhi
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delhi occupied a floral diversity of 377 generaand 551 species belong to90 angiosperms family hope this will help u
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alluvial soil in the ravines where the Yamuna flowed centuries ago before changing its course. The ravines are home to some of the rarest plant and tree species found in the National Capital Region. Work to fence off the area and revive it has begun, but is the forest department, as the activists claim, doing more damage than good there?
There is, for instance, the improper removal of the invasive vilayati kikar( Prosopis juliflora). The roots have been left in the ground and will certainly grow back. Experts also pointed out that the replacement species — jungle jalebi, bakain, shisham and kadamb, among others — are not suited to the area and will only deteriorate the ecology. To make things worse, heavy machinery is being used to flatten the terrain, as TOI saw during its visit to the forest on Friday.
Ecologist Vijay Dhasmana, familiar with the area for over a decade now, said the change has been drastic. “The deep pits show the result of using excavating machines to flatten the terrain. And while the vilayati kikar has started growing already, the native species were uprooted, destroying a natural three-tier forest level,” Dhasmana said, surveying the semi-barren landscape.
The ecologist described the intention of the forest department and the ecotask force as “good” and cited the fencing put up to prevent grazing and the creation of a fully functional water body. But, he added, poor “know-how” about species appropriate to the area’s soil type could only degrade it.
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