Diospyros melanoxylon
 
















once adorned the hills of amber fort , and aravalli hills.



















Could we plant more trees to make our roads look beutiful. Love plants to make your city better looking and environment friendly.

Marwar teak or Tecomella undulata is plant found in wilderness of desert of Rajasthan including extreme desert of western Rajasthan. This plant provides wood resembling in qualities teak or Tectona grandis to some extent and is known as teak of Marwar.
Alas this plant is coming in endangered plant species ( not in that legal sense of meaning of red data book things) but its rarer and rarer to see these plants. Save the plants to save life.
A plant of Tecomella undulata on road of Malviya Nagar Jaipur is a rare sight.

On and behind these hills  surrounding of famous Amber fort of Jaipur was famous shooting range of earstwhile Maharaja of Jaipur and almost in until 1920s to 1940s period hunting tiger in this range was not uncommon, meaning thereby the forests were so dense that wild animals have their habitat.
Now in 2010 see those hills again. Plants are gone, hills are barren, pink city of Jaipur 15 degree more temperatures in month of April this year as compared to previous records and Rajasthan for that matter had temperatures more than 49 degree for several days.

Growing rape seed mustard could be attempted in Europe on set aside lands but look at the situation in tropical countries.


Burning cow dung cake takes away organic matter from the recycling and leads to soils poor in humus and gradually soil erosion leads to reducing agricultural production

If you compare different continents across the globe the yardstick of richness overlaps with the richness of environmental heritage. What makes western nations rich and prosperous is their love for nature , its protection, conservation and improvement.
Despite of environmental benefits that the richest nations enjoy as gift of God , its contribution of their population and governments to protect nature.
You are rich only if your environment is rich. Look at the globe or come to Europe and Americas to witness the same.
Protect plants to protect planet.

Nature has created roses to make you happy.