In 1826, John Crawfurd, a veteran British diplomat and administrator, was sent on a mission to Burma by Lord Amherst, the governor general of India. Crawfurd was in the habit of keeping detailed notes ...

A sapling of the Urvashi tree, one of the most beautiful trees in the world, was planted at the Empress garden marking the 75th birthday of renowned botanist Shridhar Mahajan. PUNE: A sapling of ...

Simsapa or Simsipa tree, under whose shade Sita is believed to have sat in the Ashoka Vana in Sri Lanka, has flowered in the Malabar Botanical Garden, Calicut. This is just one of the two Simsipa ...

The Agri-Horticultural Society of Western India will plant three saplings of ‘Amherstia nobilis’, an exceptionally beautiful flowering plant, in the Empress Garden on the occasion of Earth Day on ...