SHOLA

Shola

Sholas are a local name for patches of stunted tropical montane forest found in valleys amid rolling grassland in the higher montane regions of South India. They are technically . These patches of shola forest are found mainly in the valleys and are usually separated from one another by undulating montane grassland. The shola and grassland together form the shola-grassland complex or shola-grassland mosaic.These are one of the largest Cloud Forests remaining in the Indian subcontinent. The word 'shola' is probably derived from the Tamil language word cÕlai meaning grove., or possibly from the Sanskrit 'gulma' for a thicket of trees, which occurs in ...

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shola

Noun

  1. A wild plant found in Bengal and Assam, having a milky-white, spongy pith used for the manufacture of pith helmets and decorative artefacts.


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