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Name the types of forest found in India with there trees and regions covered

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Here are the type of forests found in India: 

  1. Moist Tropical Forest - Western Coast, in Upper Assam, lower slopes of the eastern Himalaya, Orissa coast and surrounding hills. -Plants are bamboos, epiphytes, aini, semul, gutel
  2. Dry Tropical Forest  - Indian Northern Hilly regions and some states of Southern India - Plants are sal, acacia, mangoes and bamboo.
  3. Montane Temperate Forest  - Northern middle Himalayas ranges and Southern Niligiri higher Mountain ranges - Plants are rhododendrons, ferns, oak, maple, juniper, deodar, chilgoza, etc
  4. Montane Subtropical Forest - state of Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, etc - Plants are poonspar, cinnamon, rhododendron, sal, sandan, laburnum, pomegranate, olive, oleander
  5. Alpine Forest - main Himalayan regions - plants are black juniper, the drooping juniper; honeysuckle and willow

 

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