Effect of Climate Change on Plants.

Vishu is the New Year according to a calendar based on Indian astrological calculations. The day, which is celebrated in several parts of India, comes in mid-April. One of the essential ingredients for the rituals is the flowers of cassia fistula.

This tree normally used to bloom late March or early April. Of late the pattern has changed and the blossoms come in February or early March. This results in the scarcity of the flowers around Vishu time.

According to some botanists, the reason for early flowering of cassia fistula is that the temperature required, 33-35 degrees centigrade, is now reached in Kerala in February-March instead of April because of global warming.

Climate change could be having such impact on other plants as well.

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Read detailed article on Vishu at

http://parayilat.blogspot.com/2007/04/vishu-did-god-create-earth-on-this-day.html