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Contents
  1. Plants of Nepal
    1. 01Browse every plant
    2. 02The five regions
    3. 03Districts Flora
  2. Ecosystem
    1. 01Types of Ecosystem
  3. Climate change
    1. 01What is changing
    2. 02What is Climate Change?
  4. Environment-friendly behaviour
    1. 01Things you can do

Drying springs and drought

Springs that gave water for hundreds of years are drying up. When the soil has no water, even big old trees begin to lose their leaves.

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Plants this affects

  • Lali Gurans

    Rhododendron arboreum

    Middle Hills · High Mountains

    Nepal’s national flower. When the hills turn red in spring, this is the tree doing it.

    Doing okay

  • Sissoo

    Dalbergia sissoo

    Terai · Siwalik (Chure)

    A fast riverside tree of the Terai, planted along roads for shade and prized for furniture wood.

    Doing okay

  • Timur

    Zanthoxylum armatum

    Middle Hills

    A thorny shrub whose peppery seed makes your tongue tingle and go slightly numb. Nepali pickle would be lost without it.

    Doing okay