What is meant by Ethnobotany? To understand in simple terms, ethnobotany is a composite word- made of two different words. Those are ‘ethnic‘ and ‘botany‘. Ethnic general refers to anything considered as native or indigenous to a specific place. While, botany is simply the study of plants. Technically speaking, ethnobotany is a combination of two […]
Unique Plant Species Diversity of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Common Flora Found In Gilgit-Baltistan And Its Surrounding Regions – Plant Biodiversity Of GB, Pakistan Gilgit Baltistan is an administrative province or territory of Pakistan that self-governs. It borders Azad Kashmir and was previously known as the Northern Areas. The geographic area of Gilgit Baltistan is 6 times bigger than that of Azad Kashmir. The […]
Plant Grafting Techniques – Traditional and Modern Methods
What Is Plant Grafting And What Is Its Basic Method? Grafting is an agricultural practice of creating unique plant species by using two different but closely related species of plants by artificial means. For this purpose, the rootstock of one plant and the scion of a second plant is used and they are kept in […]
National Parks in Pakistan – Fauna, Flora and Importance
Introduction: A national park is not the typical park with fences, swings, and gardens. A national park is often a government-owned land reserve. Its principal goal is to preserve and conserve endangered species of flora and animals. There are approximately 6,555 national parks worldwide. There are 21 parks in Pakistan out of a total of […]
Endemic or Native Fauna and Flora of Pakistan
Pakistan is a country which is very rich in biodiversity as we have various kinds of biomes or life zones in our country such as freshwater, marine and coastal, freshwater wetlands and coral reef biomes to coniferous forests, temperate deciduous forests, thorn forests, grasslands and shrub lands, littoral and swamp, and Alpine and Tundra as […]
Endemic or Native Plant Species of Pakistan
Endemic plants of any area are the plants that are found only in that area and or only very few places on Earth. Pakistan is home to a huge amount of plant species, many of which might not even have been discovered and identified yet. Pakistan, our beautiful country, is more beautiful because of its […]
12 Indigenous Plant Species of Pakistan
Indigenous plants include those plant species that are originally present in areas. Basically, native plants are indigenous plants that grow in the natural environment. There is a wide range of plant species that are indigenous to various parts of the world. Pakistan has also vast diversity of indigenous plant species. The flora of Pakistan includes […]