A Treasure Map: Trek Mumbai

The Indian megacity of Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, is lucky in being blessed with a wealth of interesting . You can seek out some of these living treasures using this map and the accompanying photographs.

During the course of your adventures, 15 you can also take the initiative to dig

7 3 11 up other treasures of natural Mumbai. Each tree you meet in the city, try to imagine it at home in the forest. They 2 bring a bit of nature into the city, and for that they should be treasured! 5 1 17 16 9 4 Happy hunting! 6

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Trees to Discover::

1-Colaba Rain Tree 10-Rani Bagh Great Rain Tree 2-Chowpatty Casuarina 11-The Rain Cave 1000m 3-The Malabar Hill Flag 12-Rani Bagh Melaleuca North 4-Synagogue 13-Rani Bagh Cannonball 5-Gateway Banyan 14-Rani Bagh Gateway Baobab 1212- 6-Stock Exchange Surrogate 14 15-The SenTree Banyanof Mumbai 18 14 7-The Peepal at Narriman 16-Mumbai University Amherstia 10 8-Queen Victoria Terminus Palms 17-Clocktower Kailashpati 9-Parsee Plumera 18-Mazgaon Branching Palm

India's Ambassador Trees Some of Mumbai's Tree Treasures: An Eco-Geography Project

Colaba Rain Tree Samanea saman A South No other country in the world encompasses superlatives like American Rain Tree offers a fantastic canopy Rani Bagh Great Rain Tree Samanea saman At the Queen Victoria Garden, this . Despite massive population and environmental pressures, in the very pulsing heart of Mumbai, shading India is one of the most biodiverse countries on Earth. Individual 1 the steps of the Modern Art musuem. rain tree exhibits an amazing crown spread, Someone has spraypainted an advertisment 10 dominating the center of the park like no trees throughout the country can serve as ambassadors of the other tree. for "Bean Bags" natural world, and remind people that wild nature still exists. They can be perfect teachers of geography, science, & culture. They bring an island of nature into the cities, transmit stories from Chowpatty Casuarina Casuarina The Rain Cave Samanea saman Just behind the ancient geological past, stand witness to human history, equisetifolia One of a handful of Australian the Hanging Gardens at Malabar Hill, this 2 horsetail Casuarina trees growing in the 11 sprawling rain tree has a cave in its trunk, provide beauty and solace, and provide measurable benefits like sands of downtown Mumbai's much-loved and serving as a small shrine. shade, home for many animals, oxygen, fruit, and wood. and picturesque Chowpatty Beach. Each of these landmark trees was met while acknowledging that it had evolved in a wild forest in some other place at some The Malabar Hill Flag Enterolobium other time. Like a museum, not only is there a whole world to be cyclocarpum Perhaps the biggest tree in Rani Bagh Melaleuca Melaleuca quinquenervia A explored inside its branches, but that world can teach us about Mumbai, this huge, tremendous, dramatic South huge Australian tea-tree, of superb branching form, 3 American tree is very visible from Chowpatty 12 is growing at the Queen's Garden, Mumbai. other times and places. Beach and Marine Drive. These trees are your natural heritage, and they are both treasures and responsibilities. The threats are many, and everyone needs your help. So when you next encounter an Rani Bagh Cannonball Couroupita interesting tree, take note of where you are, try to identify its type, Synagogue Banyan benghalensis guianensis One of the strangely decorated One of many small Ficus saplings Cannonball trees planted around Mumbai, this and give it a name! 4 growing in the structure of the Jewish Congratulations, you've landmarked a tree! Synagogue 13 tree is a tall and striking specimen at Rani Bagh. --Much more at www.treeoctopus.net/india.htm

Gateway Banyan Ficus benghalensis A Rani Bagh Gateway Baobab Adansonia banyan tree at the park near the Gateway of India was witness to the fires at the Taj digitata A plump baobab at the entrance of 5 Hotel, and to the endless stream of tourists 14 Rani Bagh, greeting visitors to the zoo and Off The Map: coming to the site. botanical gardens. Emperor Wingnut Pterocarpus indicus A giant Padouk tree at Aurora Cinema is part of Mumbai University's Tree Stock Exchange Surrogate Ficus benghalensis The SenTree of Mumbai Ficus benghalensis Appreciation Course Just down the street from the current site, the This flagship tree for the Mumbai University's Mumbai Stock Exchange began under a tree at Tree Appreciation classes book 'Sentrees of 6 Horniman Circle, and while this original one is gone, this impressive banyan next to a public 15 Mumbai' has unfortunately had its magnficent fountain serves as a fine surrogate drapery of roots cut recently Cobra's Hood Flag Vitex negundo In the basalt peaks above Mumbai, the precipitous Cobra's Hood is crowned by a single tree

Mumbai University Amherstia Amherstia The Peepal at Narriman Ficus religiosa At the nobilis At the old Fort campus of Mumbai end of a long line of trees planted along University, one of the most celebrated of all Peerbhoy's Matheran Toy Train Jamun 7 Marine Drive, the most dramatic, exciting, and 16 flower - the lovely Amherstia- is in Syzygium cumini This jamun tree at the terminus romantic stretch of road in India of the Toy Train leading up onto Matheran Hill good health and thriving. Station is named after the railways founder, Adamjee Peerbhoy.

Queen Victoria Terminus Palms Roystonea regia A pair of stately Royal Clocktower KailashPati Couroupita guianensis One Tree Hill Memocylon umbellatum One Palms add some greenery to Mumbai's Inside the Fort campus of University of Mumbai in of the famous viewpoints at Matheran Hill the centre of the city, this tree is growing beneath Station is named for this remarkably 8 imposing and beautiful Victoria Terminus - 17 inaccessible tree isolated on a sheer basalt now Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus- the the clocktower, prominently in view from the rock pinnacle starting location for India's railway network. Maidans.

Peth Funnel Mountain Flag Ficus religiosa Amongst the basaltic hills of the Western Ghats, and on the volcanic Parsee Plumeria Plumeria obtusa Near the Mazgaon Branching Palm Hyphaene Parsi well sacred site by Churchgate Station, remnant spire of Kotligad fort, this tree dichotoma Branching palm species are very is living off of the water stored in a tank this lovely Plumeria tree serves as a nice in the fortified summit. 9 storage site for the Maidan sportsfield 18 rare, and you can see one of India's few gardener's tools. specimens at Mazgaon Hill in Mumbai.

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