INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

Detailed explanation-1: -The forests mainly contain trees such as rosewood, mahogany, and ebony. This article provides relevant information about the tropical evergreen forests and their characteristic features.

Detailed explanation-2: -Tropical evergreen forests have rosewood, mahogany and ebony trees.

Detailed explanation-3: -The important species are laurel, rosewood, mesua, thorny bamboo – Western Ghats, white cedar, Indian chestnut, champa, mango, etc.

Detailed explanation-4: -(a) Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests. (i) Tropical evergreen and semi-evergreen forests occur from sea level up to 1 000 m elevation where annual rainfall is at least 2 000 mm and fairly evenly distributed throughout the year. Drier types of evergreen forest are found in areas with a seasonally dry climate.

Detailed explanation-5: -Semi-evergreen forests are found in the Western Ghats, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and the Eastern Himalayas. Such forests have a mixture of the wet evergreen trees and the moist deciduous tress. The forest is dense and is filled with a large variety of trees of both types.