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Located at tropical latitudes, the beautiful land of India is characterized by rainfall regimes and diverse temperature and climate. India’s climate helps in the growth of forests in the country. However, in the past thousand years, various types of human activities have altered the climatic formations in the country to ala large extent. The natural vegetation in India primarily comprise of forests. Vegetation growing in correspondence with different environmental conditions is the natural vegetation of a particular place. Several major factors such as soil, topography, temperature and rainfall have influenced the natural vegetation of India to a large extent. Depending on the atmosphere, weather, position and other factors, there can be several classification of India’s natural vegetation. The many features that characterize the natural vegetation of India are the tropical deciduous forests, the tropical rain forests, the alpine and tundra vegetation, rain forests of Southern India, Himalayan vegetation, the desert region, the temperature forests and grasslands and many more.
A major role is played by the tropical rain forests, in the natural vegetation in India. These forests include the tropical semi-evergreen forests and the tropical evergreen forests. A place experiencing large amount of sunshine and rainfall have this type of forests. The trees found in these forests do not have any particular season to cast off their leaves since the area stays wet and warm all through the year. The growth of the trees happens to be very briskly where the sublime height attained by the trees is 60m or more. The forests are also known as archetypal rain-forests. These type of regions are only concentrated to the plains of West Bengal and Orissa, the Western Ghats and North-eastern India.