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The banner depicts the emblem of Kerala on a white field. State seal: Seal of Kerala: കേരള ഔദ്യോഗിക ചിഹ്നം: The emblem portrays two elephants guarding the state and national insignias. The state insignia is the conch-shell of Lord Sri Padmanabha and the national insignia is the Lion Capital of Ashoka. [1 ...
This category includes the native flora of Kerala state, located in southern India. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included. Higher taxa are included only if endemic.
Vegetation types. Eastern Kerala's windward mountains shelter tropical moist forests and tropical dry forests which are generally characteristic of the wider Western Ghats: crowns of giant sonokeling (binomial nomenclature: Dalbergia latifolia — Indian rosewood), anjili (Artocarpus hirsuta), mullumurikku (Erythrina), Cassia, and other trees dominate the canopies of large tracts of virgin forest.
Cerbera odollam is known by a number of vernacular names, depending on the region. These include othalam (ഒതളം) in the Malayalam language used in Kerala, India; kattu arali (காட்டரளி) in the adjacent state of Tamil Nadu; dabur (ডাবুর) in Bengali; famentana, kisopo, samanta or tangena in Madagascar; and pong-pong, buta-buta, bintaro or nyan in Southeast Asia.
Blossomed golden shower tree. Cassia fistula, also known as golden shower, [3] purging cassia, [4] Indian laburnum, [5] kani konna, [6] or pudding-pipe tree, [7] is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. The species is native to the Indian subcontinent and adjacent regions of Southeast Asia. It is the official state flower of Kerala state ...
List of Indian state trees (Union territories) Union territory Common name [3] Binomial name [4] Image Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Andaman redwood: Pterocarpus dalbergioides: Chandigarh: Mango [9] Mangifera indica: Delhi: Flamboyant [10] Delonix regia: Jammu and Kashmir: Chinar [11] Platanus orientalis: Ladakh: Juniper [11] Juniperus ...
The timber was used extensively in the construction of ceilings, door frames and furniture in older buildings, especially in Kerala. [7] The famous snake boats of Kerala are often hewn out of the Anjili's wood. [8] 140 tons of A. hisutus wood from Kerala was used for Tim Severin's ship Sohar, in which he traveled from Muscat to Canton in 1980-81.
Each state and union territory has a unique set of official symbols, usually a state emblem, an animal, a bird, a flower and a tree. A second animal (fish, butterfly, reptile, aquatic animal or heritage animal) sometimes appears, as do fruits and other plants, and there are some state songs and state mottos .