{"id":5012,"date":"2023-01-14T11:14:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T05:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5012"},"modified":"2025-03-27T03:45:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T22:15:55","slug":"neelakurinji-flower-blooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/neelakurinji-flower-blooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Neelakurinji Flower Blooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>According to the recent orders, those who uproot or destroy the plant will invite a fine of \u20b925,000 and three years imprisonment. The cultivation of this and its possession is not allowed,\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Neelakurinji has been included on the list when the Centre expanded the earlier protected list of six plant species to 19.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>About Neelakurunji<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Neelakuruj is scientifically known as Strobilanthus Kunsthaus,\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is a shrub that grows in the <strong>shola forests of the Western Ghats<\/strong> in South India.<\/li>\n<li>The plant is named after the famous <strong>Kunthi River<\/strong> which flows through Kerala\u2019s Silent Valley National Park, where the plant occurs abundantly.<\/li>\n<li>It is found at an altitude of 1,300-2,400 metres.<\/li>\n<li>This flower blooms once in <strong>12 years<\/strong> as the pollination of flowers needs a longer period.<\/li>\n<li>It is mainly found in the states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<strong>The Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>This act was enacted for the <strong>protection of plants and animal species<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Also, this act established <strong>schedules of protected plant and animal species<\/strong>; hunting or harvesting of these species was largely outlawed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Is Neelakurinji flower endemic to Western ghats?<\/h3>\n<p>All Neelakurunji flowers are endemic to Shola forests of western ghats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><u>Centre puts Neelakurinji on the list of protected plants.<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neelakurinji Flower is a shrub that grows in the shola forests of the Western Ghats in South India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5012","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\/5012","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=5012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}