Uttarakhand Forest Department establishes state’s first Cycad Garden at Haldwani

National desk:

Uttarakhand Forest Department has established the state’s first Cycad Garden at Haldwani. The garden is home to thirty-one different species of cycads, seventeen of which are classified as threatened.
The garden has been established on an area of over two acres with funding from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
Of these, nine species are native to India. Notably, only about fourteen cycad species have been reported from the country. Some of the prominent native cycad species in this garden include Cycas andamanica, Cycas beddomei, Cycas zeylanica, Cycas pectinata, and Cycas circinalis.