The trees in our lives: Trees around the Sompura campus

Azim Premji University, (APU) (2018) The trees in our lives: Trees around the Sompura campus. Environmental Science and Sustainability. pp. 1-28.

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In all, the students mapped 63 trees of 20 different species in the vicinity of the campus. The trees included both native and introduced species. The more common trees that the students identified were coconut, neem and tamarind, all of which have multiple uses. They also observed the peepal, a keystone species, in the landscape, as well as fruit bearing trees such as jamun, mango and jackfruit. The students also identified a specimen each of the Indian hog plum and the gooseberry. The ornamental flowering species they recorded included the African tulip with its bright red flowers, the more subdued pink poui, the fragrant Indian cork and the canopy of blue jacaranda. The students also identified and measured teak and casuarina that are popular plantation species grown for their wood. The canopy trees that are popular avenue trees in Bengaluru included the rain tree and Indian beech. Mesquite, an aggressive invasive, was the other species that the students could spot in the landscape. They also recorded the large leaved Indian almond and the camel-foot tree that gets its name from the hoofed shape of its leaves.

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