Ashok Biswal

Biswal is with the Regional Plant Resource Centre, Bhubaneswar, he recently wrote Aquatic Plants of Eastern India

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The fruits of the crab apple mangrove
(Sonneratia caseolaris) are consumed
by local communities. Fermented
fruit juice is said to be useful to treat
cough. Fishing communities also make
fishing nets from this plant

Withering heights

16 Feb 2017

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