🌳Forests of India🌳:

Natural Evergreen Forest🌳:

Natural vegetation refers to a plant community un affected by man either directly or indirectly.

Topic Evergreen Forest 🌳:

🌟These Forests are found in areas with 200 cm or more annual rainfall.
🌟The annual temperature is more than 22°C and the advantage annual humidity exceeds 70 percent.
🌟Western Ghats in Maharashtra, Karnataka Kerala,Andhaman-Nicobar Islands, Assam, West Bengal,Nagaland, Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur and Meghalaya states have this type of Forest.
🌟The most important tress are rubber, mahogany, ebony rosewood etc.,

Tropical Deciduous Forest🌳 :

🌟These are found in the areas with 100 to 200 cm annual rainfall. These are called “Monsoon Forests “.
🌟The meann annual temperature of this region is about 27°C and the average annual relative humidity is 60 to 70 percent.
🌟Teak and sal are the most important tress.
🌟Sandalwood, rosewood, Kasum etc ., are trees of economic importance.
🌟They provide fragrant oil vanish,sandal oil and perfumes.

Tropical Dry Forest🌳 :

🌟These are found in the areas with 50 to 100 cm annual rainfall.
🌟Mahua, banyan ,amaltas,palas,haldu,kikar,bamboo, babool,khair etc., are the important species.
🌟These are also called as “Tropical thron forests”. These are found in the areas having annual rainfall of less than 50 cm.
🌟They have low humidity and high temperature.

Mountain or Motane Forest🌳 :

These Forests are classified on the basic of altitude and amount of rainfall. Accordingly two different type of Forests namely
i. Eastern Himalayas Forest
ii. Western Himalayas Forest.

i. Eastern Himalayas Forests🌳:

🌟 These are found on the slopes of mountains in north-east states.
🌟These Forests receive rainfall of more than 200 cm.
🌟The vegetation is of Evergreen type.
🌟The Altitude between 1200-2400m found in this type of Forest.
🌟Sal ,oak , Laura, amura, chestnut,cinnamon are the main areas.

ii. Western Himalayas Forest🌳:

🌟These Forests are found in the states of jammed and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
🌟Upto 900 m Altitude semi desert vegetation is found and it is known for bushes and small tress.
🌟 In Altitude from 900 to 1800 m, chir tree is the most common tree.

Alpine Forest 🌳:

🌟 It occurs all along the Himalayas with above 2400m Altitude.
🌟These are purely having coniferous trees.
🌟Oak,silver fir,pine and juniper are the main trees of these Forests.
🌟The Eastern parts of Himalayas has large extent of these Forests.

Tital Forest 🌳:

🌟These Forests occur in and around the deltas ,estuaries and creeks prone to tidal influence and as such are also known as delta or swamp Forests.
🌟The delta of the Ganga – Brahmaputra has the largest tidal Forest.
🌟The deltas of Mahanadi ,Godavari and Krishna rivers are also known for tidal Forests.
🌟These are also known as mangrove Forest.

Coastal Forests 🌳:

🌟There are littoral Forests.
🌟Causing,palm and coconut are the dominant trees.
🌟Both the Eastern and western coasts have this type of Forests.
🌟The coast of Kerala and Goa are known for this type.

Riverine Forest 🌳:

🌟These Forests are found along the rivers on Khadar areas.
🌟These are known for tamarisk and tamarind trees.
🌟The Rivers of Great plains are more prominent for this type of natural vegetation