In principle I do not have anything against such movement. In fact it will create an awareness which is probably not so widespread now. But there are some trees which are naturalised in India. Would anybody be shocked if I say that grapes,, pomegranante, tomato, potato, tobacco are Not native. Even green chilly! But my worry is about the ornamental trees. Tabebuia,so abundant in Bangalore, chorisia speciosa so lovingly nurtured in Delhi, Baobab, and a host of winter flowering annuals are also exotic. Whereas I deplore the monoculture which has been adopted by the forest dept. at many places, and the trying of exotic trees; for several other non-forest varieties, it is difficult to justify restricting to native plants and trees. Let us admit, apart from various varieties of jasmine (Which again I suspect is an import from Persia, and lotus. there are very few garden varieties of native trees. Please give it a thought. akbhatt
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