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Annexure - III: Trees in forest areas in the city of Gandhinagar and Bhavnagar
Trees in Indroda Park, Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation (Area 450 ha)
No
Species
No of
trees
No
Species
No of
trees
1 Israel baval - Acacia tortalis
37,617 7 Gando baval - Prosopis juliflora
4,438
2 Deshi baval - Acacia nilotica
29,447 8 Bordi - Zizyphus mauritiana
4,059
3 Limdo-Azadirachta indica
21,530 9 Majeth - Dichrostachys cinerea
2,819
4 Gorad- Acacia senegal
7,075 10 Khijdo - Prosopis cineraria
2,286
5 Garmalo - Cassia fistula
5,158 11 Others
14,070
6 Kanji - Holoptelia integrifolia
4,834
Total
133,333
Trees in Victoria Park (Area 202 ha) in Bhavnagar Municipal Corporation
No
Species
No of
trees
No
Species
No of
trees
1 Gorad- Acacia senegal
180,178 7 Subaval - Leucaena leucocephala 1,565
2 Gando baval-Prosopis juliflora 14,474 8 Limdo-Azadirachta indica
931
3 Ingorio - Balanites aegyptiaca
4,765 9 Khati amli - Tamarindus indica
915
4 Deshi baval - Acacia nilotica
2,390 10 Vikado - Maytensus emargianata
445
5 Kanji - Holoptelia integrifolia
2,389 11 Others
2,260
6 Hermo - A. leucophloea
2,209
Total
212,521
Gorad, small size tree, dominates the forest in Victoria Park. The tree density of this forest is 1052 tree/
ha. In fact Gorad constitutes about 85 % of total trees in the park.
Annexure - IV: Tree Population in Municipal Corporation Areas to meet minimum
standard of tree cover
No
Municipal Corporation
No of trees
Species
No of trees
1 Ahmedabad
6.18
19.89
13.71
2 Surat
3.33
16.65
13.32
3 Vadodara
7.47
7.47
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4 Gandhinagar
8.67
8.67
--
5 Rajkot
1.38
4.41
3.03
6 Bhavnagar
4.76
4.76
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7 Junagadh
0.77
2.41
1.64
8 Jamnagar
0.46
1.45
0.99
Total
33.02
65.71
32.69
