Rhododendron

                               Rhododendron

•Rhododendron is also called Buransh.

• Rhododendron or Buransh is the state tree of Uttarakhand.

• Rhododendron is designated as the state flower in Nagaland.

• Rhododendron Darjeeling Sikkim is found in abundance in the Himalayas. The Botanical Survey of India (BSI) has confirmed this in a latest publication.

• Rhododendron is found in temperate regions of Asia, North America and Europe apart from India as well as tropical regions of South East Asia and Northern Australia.

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• The Rhododendron genus group contains over 1200 different species.

• There are 132 taxa (80 species) of Rhododendron in India, 

 25 subspecies and 27 varieties are found.

• Out of the 45 taxa of Rhododendron recorded in the BSI publication, 24 are found in Darjeeling Himachal and 44 in Sikkim Himalayas.

RHODODENDRON- When rhododendron flowers bloom in the Himalayas in March-April, its beauty is incomparable.

Rhododendron flowering trees range from 1,500m above sea level

Found at altitudes of over 5,000 metres.

White rhododendrons bloom at an altitude of 9 thousand to 10 thousand feet above sea level.

An exception: The white rhododendron has been blooming in Selang Village for the past several years.

     

           ● It is¹ known that white rhododendron is poisonous.

Many medicinal properties are found in Rhododendron flowers.

As:-

It helps in the prevention and treatment of diseases related to heart disease, dysentery, diarrhoea, detoxification, inflammation, fever, constipation, bronchitis, and asthma.

Rhododendron leaves have effective antioxidant activity.

Red rhododendron juice is very beneficial.

(If someone wants to treat himself with Buransh, then he must consult his doctor.)

There is some story or the other associated with every object on the mountains.

            A touching story related to the red rhododendron flower 

A girl lived in a village in Garhwal. She was the only child of her parents.
She was married in the foothills of a faraway mountain.
Her mother-in-law used to trouble her a lot.
Whenever she spoke of going to see her parents, her mother-in-law would engage her in various tasks.
Many years passed like this.
Here her parents died while waiting for their daughter.
When more days passed, the girl could not bear it.
She came to see her parents, but instead of her parents, she saw two trees in which red rhododendrons were blooming.
The people of the village told the girl how her parents  had died while she was waiting for her.

The girl cried a lot while hugging the tree. Since then, a tradition has started that whenever  the rhododendron blossoms in Garhwal, the girl comes to her mother's house.