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P. alba is often cultivated as an ornamental plant. In Cambodia pagodas especially choose this shrub, with the flowers used in ritual offerings to the deities, they are sometimes used to make necklaces which decorate coffins. [4]
In eastern India and Bangladesh, plumeria is traditionally considered as a variety of the champak flower, the golok chapa, meaning the champaka that resides in the heavenly home of Sri Krishna, a Hindu god at the highest realm of heaven. In Sri Lanka it is known as "Araliya" or "Temple Flower".
Pluchea indica is a species of flowering plant in the aster family, Asteraceae.Its common names include Indian camphorweed, Indian fleabane, and Indian pluchea. [1] It is native to parts of Asia and Australia, and it is widespread in the Pacific Islands as an introduced and often invasive species.
Archidendron pauciflorum is a legume tree with a size of 18–25 m, has a spreading crown and bipinnate leaves (up to 25 cm) and greyish smooth bark. [2] [7] [8] The young leaves have a wine-red colour and are edible.
Plumeria rubra is a deciduous plant species belonging to the genus Plumeria. [4] Originally native to Mexico, Central America, Colombia and Venezuela, it has been widely cultivated in subtropical and tropical climates worldwide and is a popular garden and park plant, as well as being used in temples and cemeteries.
There are estimated to be over 18,000 species of flowering plants in India, which constitute some 6-7 percent of the total plant species in the world. India is home to more than 50,000 species of plants, including a variety of endemics. The use of plants as a source of medicines has been an integral part of life in India from the earliest times.
Dvārakā–Kamboja route, a route in ancient India, from the Kamboja territory to the city of Dvaraka; Kambu Swayambhuva, progenitor of the Kambojas in Indian mythology; Upamanyu Kamboja or Upamanyu, a sage of Hinduism Aupamanyava Kamboja, his son; Kamboja-Pala Dynasty of Bengal (c. 10th-11th centuries) Rajyapala Kamboja, the founder of the ...
The sea trade from the southern end of the Kamboja–Dvārakā Route to the west is documented in Greek, Buddhist and Jain records: The 1st-century CE Greek work The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea [citation needed] mentions several seaports on the west coast of India, from Barbarikon at the mouth of the Indus to Bharakuccha, Sopara, Kalyan and ...