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Adansonia digitata, the African baobab, is the most widespread tree species of the genus Adansonia, the baobabs, and is native to the African continent and the southern Arabian Peninsula (Yemen, Oman). These are long-lived pachycauls; radiocarbon dating has shown some individuals to be over 2,000 years old.
One who knows this tree is the knower of the Vedas." (Bg 15.1) Here the material world is described as a tree whose roots are upwards and branches are below. We have experience of a tree whose roots are upward: if one stands on the bank of a river or any reservoir of water, he can see that the trees reflected in the water are upside down.
Psittacus galgulus ( blue-crowned hanging parrot) Linnaeus, 1758. Species. See main text. Hanging parrots are birds in the genus Loriculus, a group of small parrots from tropical southern Asia . About 13 cm (5.1 in) long, hanging parrots are mostly green plumaged and short-tailed. Often head coloring helps to identify individual species. [ 1]
The following list provides the 704 species of common trees and shrubs of flora of Sri Lanka under 95 families. The list is according to A Field Guide to the Common Trees and Shrubs of Sri Lanka, by Mark Ashton, Savitri Gunatilleke, Neela de Zoysa, M.D. Dassanayake, Nimal Gunatilleke and Siril Wijesundera. [ 1]
Seeds have however been reported in the diet of Sri Lankan specimens. [11] In the forests of Sri Lanka, they are often found in mixed-species foraging flocks [12] where they may sometimes be subject to kleptoparasitism by drongos. [13] A study in Kerala found that they foraged mainly at 5 to 10 m with females tending to forage lower within the ...
In 2019 a total area of 16.5% [ 2] of Sri Lanka was forested. In 2010, it was 28.8% [ 3] (and 32.2% in 1995. [ 4] ) 9.0% [ 5] of Sri Lanka's forests are classified as primary forest (the most biodiverse form of forest and the biggest carbon sinks on Earth). Sri Lanka's forests contain 61 million metric tons of carbon in living forest biomass ...
Adansonia. L. [ 1] Species. See species section. Adansonia is a genus made up of eight species of medium-to-large deciduous trees known as baobabs ( / ˈbaʊbæb / or / ˈbeɪoʊbæb /) or adansonias. They are placed in the Malvaceae family, subfamily Bombacoideae. They are native to Madagascar, mainland Africa, and Australia. [ 2]
Mesua ferrea. Ceylon ironwood in Selangor, Malaysia. Mesua nagassarium ( Burm.f.) Kosterm. Mesua sclerophylla Thw. Mesua ferrea, the Ceylon ironwood, or cobra saffron, [ 2] is a species in the family Calophyllaceae native to the Indomalayan realm. This slow-growing tree is named after the heaviness and hardness of its timber.