Deoban: Cryptogamic garden

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2021: inauguration

Shivani Azad, July 12, 2021: The Times of India

Located at an altitude of over 8,850 feet at Deoban, nearly 99 kilometres from Dehradun, and spread over around three acres, India’s first cryptogamic garden opened for tourists on Sunday. It houses almost 76 different species of cryptogams, a primitive plant species found since the Jurassic era. Cryptogams are considered among the best bioindicators, as they grow only at places without pollution and with ample soil moisture.

The garden has been developed in Deoban as it has a majestic pristine forest of Deodar and Oak trees, besides being pollution-free, said Sanjiv Chaturvedi, chief conservator of forests (research).

Speaking to TOI, Chaturvedi said, “This is India’s first cryptogamic garden. The species of plants in the garden only grow in a pollution-free environment and at places with adequate moisture. These species will just vanish even if there is the slightest deviation in the environmental indicators.” He added, “The species of fungi, algae and lichens found here have a big role to play in ecology and environment as they are imperative to sustain life on earth.”

Uttarakhand is home to 539 species of lichens, 346 species of algae, 478 species of bryophytes and 365 species of pteridophytes.