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Tectona grandis
450 year old Teak tree, thought to be India's oldest Teak tree and one of the largest Teak trees in the world. Tectona grandis is a large, deciduous tree up to 40 m (131 ft) tall with gray to grayish brown branchlets.
monsoon forest
I spotted this Teak tree in Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary.
Spotted on Feb 20, 2008
Submitted on May 20, 2011
11 Comments
Is it this animal Ashish?
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/588...
Hahahaha! Thanks Matt! Yeah, that's me and I'm normal sized. For a lot of my trips I tend not to shave for 4 months, so that means a pretty epic beard!
Just checked its Bison
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radhanagari...
That is a proper 'bushman' beard (I assume that is you?). Top work. It's good to have you in the photo for scale, unless you're a giant or something, then you're just gonna confuse people.
Ok, I've never heard of this animal. Its not in the book A Field Guide to Indian Mammals by Vivek Menon, that I used when I was in India.
There is Indian wild buffalo find in Radhanagari forest and called Yak locally.
In Maharashtra state these 2 less known and remotely access national parks comes in hill areas of Sahyadri main range.
There is no marking of national parks
http://wikimapia.org/#lat=19.1007285&...
http://wikimapia.org/#lat=16.4064465&...
Ok, thanks for the tips. I saw plenty of giant squirrel in India. When you say Yak, do you mean Guar? I don't think Yak are found that far south are they?
Next time if come here around try to visit forests of Bhimashankar and Radhanagari National parks specially for Giant squirrel and Yak. And enjoy lots of flora that you find in my spotting.
Sure, I'd like to see that. The furthest north I was in Western Ghats was Bandipur and Nagarhole National parks.
Dan I show you some interesting trees what is treasure of Sahyadri mountain in Maharashtra(but after some time). I believe they are similarly 300-500 years old. Still not clicked during my rush full trekking days. I wonder if you visited Northern Western Ghats. This Kerala portion is southern part of it and have highest elevations.
Thanks alot for sharing.