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PLANT DIVERSITY OF INDIA

 

13.1. PLANT CLASSIFICATION13.2. EFFECT OF ABIOTIC COMPONENTS ON PLANTS13.2.1. Intensity of light on growth of plants13.2.2. Effect of frost on plants13.2.3. Effects of Snow on plants13.2.4. Effect of temperature on plants13.2.5. Die backCauses for die back13.3. INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS13.3.1. The Indian HuntersMedicinal properties13.3.2. Threat13.4. INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES13.4.3. Some Invasive fauna in India are:13.4.1. Invasion and Species Richness?13.4.2. Effects13.5. SOME INVASIVE ALIEN FLORA OF INDIA13.5.1. Needle Bush13.5.2. Black Wattle13.5.3. Goat weed13.5.4. Alternanthera paronychioides13.5.5. Prickly Poppy13.5.6. Blumea eriantha13.5.7. Palmyra, Toddy Palm13.5.8. Calotropis / Madar, Swallo Wort13.5.9. Datura, Mad Plant, Thorn Apple13.5.10. Water Hyacinth13.5.11. Impatiens, Balsam13.5.13. Ipomoea / the pink morning glory13.5.13 . Lantana camara / Lantana, Wild Sage13.5.14 . Black Mimosa13.5.15 . Touch-Me-Not, Sleeping Grass13.5.16 . 4 ‘0’ clock plant.13.5.17 . Parthenium / Congress grass, Parthenium13.5.18 . Prosopis juliflora / Mesquite13.5.19 . Townsend grass13.6. MEDICINAL PLANTS13.6.1. Beddomes Cycad / Perita / Kondaitha13.6.2. Blue vanda / Autumn Ladies Tresses Orchid13.6.3. Kuth / Kustha / Pooshkarmoola / Uplet13.6.4. Ladies Slipper Orchid13.6.5. Red vanda13.6.6. Sarpagandha13.6.7. Ceropegia species.13.6.8. Emodi / Indian Podophyllum13.6.9. Tree Ferns13.6.10. Cycads13.6.11. Elephant’s foot13.7. TREE CHARACTERS13.7.1. Types of Trees:13.7.2. Parts of a Tree:Crown:Leaves:Branches:Trunk:13.7.3. Parts of the Trunk:Bark:Cambium:Heartwood:Pith:13.7.4. Root types13.7.5. Canopy classification-13.7.6. Other characters