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Additionally, there is another classification depending on the original land of the plants; native flora and non-native flora. In their garden they get muntjac deer, who have eaten their tulips. A small wooden outhouse contains books and sprouting potatoes. Mabey doesn’t have a regular writing room these days – he drifts about, and takes the laptop anywhere that’s warm. The new nature writing spats, Mabey says, made them all acutely self-conscious. But later, over a glass of white wine, sitting outside for a coronavirus-age, al fresco lunch, he adds, “What I will say is that in much modern nature writing there is a tendency to view the natural world as a kind of magic globe in which to view oneself. I judged a competition recently and out of 30 or so entries just two were about the natural world and the rest were about the people who had written them.”

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Encyclopædia Britannica, inc. (n.d.). Moss. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved April 29, 2022, from https://www.britannica.com/plant/moss-plant Reptiles are well represented in India. Crocodiles inhabit the country’s rivers, swamps, and lakes. The estuarine crocodile ( Crocodilus porosus)—once attaining a maximum length of 30 feet (9 metres), though specimens exceeding 20 feet (6 metres) are now rare—usually lives on the fish, birds, and crabs of muddy deltaic regions. The long-snouted gavial, or gharial ( Gavialis gangeticus), a species similar to the crocodile, is endemic to northern India; it is found in a number of large rivers, including the Ganges and Brahmaputra and their tributaries. Of the nearly 400 species of snakes, one-fifth are venomous. Kraits and cobras are particularly widespread venomous species. King cobras often grow to at least 12 feet (3.6 metres) long. The Indian python frequents marshy areas and grasslands. Lizards also are widespread, and turtles are found throughout India, especially along the eastern coast.

The Dandelion is a flower with wildlife super-powers, providing abundant nectar and pollen, and seeds stems, roots and leaves giving food to a wide range of pollinators, moths, butterflies, birds and even people. Yet it’s disappearing from many towns, verges and gardens due to a chemical ‘Lawnageddon’ (see video below). So the Fairyland Trust is asking everyone to cut out the spray, leave dandelions to finish flowering before any mowing, and cherish and encourage these wonderful plants. Tropical thorn forests occupy areas in various parts of the country, though mainly in the northern Gangetic Plain and southern peninsular India. Those forests generally grow in areas with less than 24 inches (600 mm) of rain but are also found in more humid areas, where deciduous forests have been degraded because of unregulated grazing, felling, and shifting agriculture. In those areas, such xerophytic (drought-tolerant) trees as species of acacia (babul and catechu) and Butea monosperma predominate. It is almost impossible to get a sense of life in the Mabey household because the spectre of the father in his bed dominates all impressions of the family. Here was a gang of arty, neurotic children who all went on to do interesting things – but what inspired them is a mystery. There is no talk of a shared imaginative world, or games or books. By contrast Mabey’s childhood friends were “desperately important” to him: “My whole sense of being was with the friends I ran with.” He still knows many of them today.

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They weren’t ready to take the real jump and portray the natural world in the messy way that a) it is, and b) we perceived it,” he says. “They’re still very fond of humans knowing all the answers. The idea of Keats’s negative capability, of creative uncertainty – they did not find exciting.” Bryophyte flora: Examples of this type of plant are mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. For example, Mosses flora form about 12.000 species. They are bryophytes, nonvascular and primitive flora. In addition, they bear spores. They are distributed all over the world but cannot be found in saltwater. They are mainly used in the erosion of the soil. Tropical Rainforest Plant List, Information, Pictures and Facts. Wild. (2019, May 2). Retrieved April 29, 2022, from https://www.activewild.com/tropical-rainforest-plants-list/

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Plant Kingdom – TOPPR-Guides. (n.d.). Retrieved April 26, 2022, from https://www.toppr.com/guides/biology/diversity-in-living-organisms/plant-kingdom/ Dandelions are food for at least 46 different types of moth (and that’s just the bigger types) whose ‘caterpillars’ munch on the leaves, stem or roots as youngsters So I would hope that we might get our act together. But I think it’s very unlikely, because no species has ever acted as a species. Nothing in the natural world does – they act in terms of their own genes, and their families. The sense of species awareness is unique to humans, but whether it really has any firm bounds in our deep psychological make-up, I don’t know. It probably doesn’t.”