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Kanha
flora or plant life is the
underpinning of the parks entire
ecosystem. Tigers could not live here without prey, such
as chital, sambar, wild boar, and barasingha. These
animals, in turn, could not subsist without the forage
that the plant life furnishes them. Languor’s,
sloth Bears, and birds depend on
fruits, flowers, nectar, and Forbs for
survival. Insects, spiders,
and trees have a complex, interdependent set of
relationship, in which spiders help to regulate
the defoliant pressures on trees by controlling the
insect population. Termites, whose digestive
system turns decaying vegetation into soil-enriching
nutrients, are a major item in the sloth bears diet,
exemplifying dynamic linkages among insects, plant
life, and one of the parks major
mammals. In these and many other similar examples an
ecosystems approach is as always the key to a more
sensitive, accurate understanding and appreciation of
the park.
The
other common tree species belong to
the Terminalia genus, the most numerous
being what in Terminalia arjuna, locally
called Arjun is distinct because of its pale bark
and thick girth, is more common near water sources.
Labernum or Amaltas (Cassia fistula) with lovely
yellow blossoms in the dry season and Flame
of the forest or Palas (Butea frondosa) a wonderful
sight in the drier season when it is flowering, are
found scattered all over the forest. Huge trees of
Baja (Pterocarpus marsupium) & Haldu (Adena
cardifolia) along with host of other large & small
trees comprise the thick forest.
Trees like Mango and of Jamun or
Black plum (Syzigium cumini) are also found.
Bamboo thickets are commonly found, the undergrowth is
quite thick with species like Lantana and Glerodendron.
The rolling meadows of grass and grassy plateau are
integral to the health of the herbivore population.
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