#conocarpus

https://artificiallyplants.com/ban-on-conocarpus-plant/

I continue to get scarred when I see a Paper Mulberry, Eucalyptus, a Conocarpus or a False Ashoka pushing aside one of the multiple local trees of great charm, beauty, benefit and blessing. I get scarred every time an ancient tree gets murdered in my city — often clandestinely, quickly and decisively. With such unholy alacrity that we don’t even have the opportunity to resist and protest. We are left to mourn over the stump and the memories of what once was. So it’s not religion or climate or stage of development it seems. It is something about the people. But we were not always like this. The emperors who ruled this land as well as the colonists who colonised it had one commendable commonality amongst some others — they planted great gardens, lined highways and avenues with trees, and effectively protected them from menaces. Our own ancestors did the same and it is the trees planted by their blessed hands that we benefit from today.