Neriamangalam forest awash with rare bamboo blooms
The Hindu
The species of plant has flowered after 60 years
Bambusa Bambos, a bamboo species that flowers once in a human lifetime, has flowered at Valara and Nagarampara forest stations in Neriamangalam Reserve Range in eastern Ernakulam.
This species of bamboo takes 60 to 130 years to flower. The bamboo is spread over 100 sq.km. between Thalacode and Adimaly in a deciduous forest, which has a variety of flora and fauna that includes a large population of elephants and wild gaur. Deputy Range Forest Officer G.G. Santhosh says, “The flowering began in December; the blooms will last for three to four months, before they dry and die.” A similar flowering occurred in Wayanad last year.
Kani, the head of the local tribe, says that such an occurrence had taken place 60 years ago.
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