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According to Almond 1993, the Botanic Garden is an ever changing museum of living plants. Chakravarthy and Mukhopadhyay 1990 described Btoanic Garden as a living repository or refugia of plants arranged and maintained on some scientific basis and where the collections are usually labeled or marked for identification. Heywood 1983 of the view that the Botanic Gardens and arboretum are at best represent the last resort for the preservation and maintenance of rare ...
The mangrove plant species are members of terrestrial families, which have adaptations to survive under conditions of high salinity, low oxygen and nutrient availability in the soil, wind and wave action and substrate instability. The forest ecosystem consists of intertidal flora and fauna in the tropics and subtropics and dominated by evergreen sclerophyllous broad-leaved trees with stilt root or pneumatophores and viviparous seedlings. Nearly 85% of the Indian ...