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Vegetation in Sunderbans National Park
Vegetation at the Sunderbans National Park consists mainly of dense mangrove forests. In fact this vast delta is referred to as a tidal swamp forest and covers a whopping 2,500 kilometers.
India Wildlife Tours offers online information on the vegetation at the Sunderbans National Park in West Bengal, India. All the vegetation types at the Sunderbans are evenly distributed. The commonly identifiable vegetation that thrives in the dense mangrove forests at the Sunderbans are salt water mixed forest, mangrove scrub, brackish water mixed forest, littoral forest, wet forest and wet alluvial grass forests.
Sunderbans derived its name from the 'Sundari' trees that thrive in great numbers in this region. These mangrove trees can grow very well in a combination of salt water and fresh water. More than 50 varieties of mangrove or sundari trees that grow wild as vegetation at the Sunderbans National Park.
In fact the Sunderbans delta is the largest mangrove forest in the world. Mangrove plants thrive very well in muddy, wet soil and marshy areas in tropical tidal waters. The mangrove vegetation at the Sunderbans can be categorized into shrubs, trees, ground ferns or palms depending upon the ratio of salt water and fresh water that the roots intake.
India Wildlife Tours offers online booking for wildlife tours to the Sunderbans National Park in West Bengal, India. For details please enter your query in the form provided below.
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