Survey of wall flora in Gingee fort and uncared gopuras in Gingee taluk, villupuram district
1 P.G & Reasearch Department of Botany Govt Arts College, Thiruvannamalai, Tamil nadu, India.
In order to study the diversity of fort wall and temple tower, a survey has been under taken at three different temples, Gingee fort . from Gingee Taluk, Villupuram Dt., A total available (56) species are Herbs, shrubs, Trees and Climbers were identified from the temple towers and gingee fort walls maximum number of 56 species was recorded at gingee fort walls. minimum number of 7 species was recorded at Sri Ranganatha Temple, Kamalakanniamman temple and Pattabiraman Temple. belong to the family, Moraceae, Meliaceae, Rubiaceae, Capparidaceae, Rubiaceae,Areaceae Malvaceae, Amarantheaceae Verbenaceae, Astraceae and Euphorbiaceae dominated on the wall of the gingee fort and temple towers . The abundance of flora in these temples might be due to favourable PH, macro and micro nutrients prevailing on the templs. To avoid such a situation a wise step is follow the principle prevention is better than cure control methods of the wall flora comprises mechanical and chemical methods.
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S.Rajalakshmi & Shanthi., D. K. .. (2012). Survey of wall flora in Gingee fort and uncared gopuras in Gingee taluk, villupuram district. International Journal of Ayurvedic and Herbal Medicine, 2(5). https://doi.org/10.47191/ijahm/v2i5.11
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