I dont know how it happened that all the exotic plants which we brought to India with great enthusiasm and high hopes were proved to be invasive or injurious in some other way. Let us reel off the names: water hyacinth which was brought by an English lady for the beautiful flowers, ipomea which was supposed to solve the fodder and firewood problem in the villages, eucalyptus which was thought to be an excellent tree for forest plantation, subabool and now acacia auriculiformis which was thought to be a useful plant for covering degraded forest area as it is non-browsable. I am not mentioning lantana and parthenium. The moral of the story is that one should go for native plants, not search for exotic plants to be imported for large scale plantation. Another plant which is being propagated by a reputed religious organisation is Simarouba glauca. Well one has to wait for a few years to see how useful and harmless the tree is. ak
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]>wrote: > Acacia auriculiformis to be precise..... > Pankaj > > > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Shantanu Bhattacharya > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > sharing a pic of the Phyllode Acacia (Acacia auriculoformis)...an > invasive > > species from Australia. > > Pic taken at Narendrapur. > > > > this plant now grows in profusion in many parts of Bankura and Puruliya > > districts of West Bengal...the red soil is ideal for its growth...but it > > doesnt allow other plants to grow...and its outcompeting other trees in > the > > area. > > > > i was shocked to see that there were no other trees in Mukutmanipur- a > nice > > tourist spot near Bankura. > > > > > > Shantanu :) > > > > > > Shantanu Bhattacharya. > > B.Sc, M.Sc (Zoology) > > University of Calcutta. > > Teaching Faculty. > > Dept. of Biology. > > Vivekananda Mission School(ICSE). > > Joka. Kolkata. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > *********************************************** > "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" > > > Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) > Research Associate > Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project > Department of Habitat Ecology > Wildlife Institute of India > Post Box # 18 > Dehradun - 248001, India > -- Anand Kumar Bhatt A-59, B.S.F.Colony, Airport Road Gwalior. 474 005. Tele: 0751-247 2233. Mobile 0 94253 09780. My blogsite is at: http://anandkbhatt.blogspot.com (A NEW BLOG HAS BEEN ADDED ON 3 SEPT 2010.) And the photo site: www.flickr.com/photos/akbhatt/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ten most common surnames of Indians: Singh, Kumar, Sharma, Patel, Shah, Lal, Gupta, Bhat, Rao, Reddy. Cheers!
