{"id":29934,"date":"2025-02-07T06:53:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T01:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29934"},"modified":"2025-04-09T12:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T06:31:39","slug":"rhododendron-wattii-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/rhododendron-wattii-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhododendron wattii Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Rhododendron wattii Tree Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, a study highlighted the endangered Rhododendron wattii in Nagaland.<\/p>\n<h2>About Rhododendron wattii Tree<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>shrub or tree<\/strong> and grows primarily in the temperate biome.<\/li>\n<li>It is a small tree attaining a maximum height of 25 feet.<\/li>\n<li>It is endemic to <strong>Manipur and Nagaland, especially<\/strong> found growing in its natural habitat at <strong>Dzukou Valley (<\/strong>Nagaland).<\/li>\n<li>It was first <strong>collected by Sir George Watt<\/strong> from Nagaland\u2019s <strong>Japfu Hill range<\/strong> during his 1882-85 survey.<\/li>\n<li>Characteristics of Rhododendron wattii Tree\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>evergreen plant<\/strong>, and leaf renewal occurs throughout the year.<\/li>\n<li>Its <strong>flowering occurs<\/strong> from the end of <strong>February to April,<\/strong> and fruiting is observed from April to December.<\/li>\n<li>The flowers present in trusses of 18-25 flowers are <strong>pink with darker flecks<\/strong> and purplish basal blotches.<\/li>\n<li>They are foraged and pollinated by the Fire-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga ignicauda and bumble bees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Issues with Rhododendron wattii Tree<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A study found the <strong>natural regeneration<\/strong> of the plant <strong>species to be very low<\/strong> although it produces numerous seeds after the flowers are pollinated mainly by the fire-tailed sunbird and bumble bees.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Poor seedling survivability, anthropogenic activities, and wildfires<\/strong> were among the factors responsible for the disappearance of this species.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Rhododendron wattii Tree FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1: <\/strong>Which type of tree is rhododendron?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> Rhododendron arboreum, the tree rhododendron, is an evergreen shrub or small tree.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2: <\/strong>What is the habitat of the rhododendron tree?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> They can be found in a variety of habitats including forest floors, stream sides, marshes, ridges, glades, cliffs, rocks, boulders, open meadows, thickets, scree, mountain tops, and even trees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/red-flag-over-rhododendron-tree-in-nagaland-valley\/article69187620.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhododendron wattii Tree is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the temperate biome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}