Credits

I am grateful to my mother, Smt.P.Subhadra for her invaluable assistance in making this web site.  I am also extremely thankful to Sri.Amarnatha Shetty IFS, Conservator of Forests, Eastern Circle, Palakkad who first encouraged my interest in this kind of thing and provided much help to collect botanical names of various species.  Obviously it would not have been possible to produce a work of this kind without the aid of the various standard reference books.  Honorable mentions are Forest Trees of Kerala by N.Sasidharan,   Forest Plants of Kerala by Dr.P.N.Nair & C.S.Nair, Flora of the Presidency of Madras by J.S.Gamble & C.E.C.Fischer, Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia of Plants & Earth Sciences and the great Britannica Encyclopedia.  Thanks are also due to various web sites on plants and horticulture for providing illustrations other valuable information in this site.  And my very special thanks to Miss.Asha.S, my friend and inspiration.

M.S.K.Prathap