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Several Chennai-specific plant species that once thrived in the city are now seen only in reserve forests or have already become extinct due to urbanisation and lack of intervention, highlighted taxonomist Muthu Karthik of Care Earth Trust at the first day of Chennai Water Forum organised by Goethe Institut in Kalakshetra. While some invasive species like water hyacinths are doing well, varieties of the insectivorous sun dew plants, ground orchids and bladderworts are now only found in Nanmangalam, Pulikaradu.

Edible species like Kottikazhangu — a tuber and a wetland herb — are also becoming rare, according to Muthu Karthik. “Beach and dune vegetation that have important ecological functions are largely neglected,” he said................Read more

 

Source: The New Indian Express


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