Since 2016, she has been painting plant species of the Western Ghats. View Full Image Rao’s drawing of ‘Elaeocarpus munronii’, a plant species found quite commonly in the Western Ghats. Her project focuses on the Myristica swamps, a freshwater swamp forest believed to be millions of years old, in a part of the Western Ghats in Kerala. She received a Young Explorers grant from them for her book Hidden Kingdom: Fantastical Plants Of The Western Ghats, published in 2019. View Full Image Rao’s drawing of the pepper plant prevalent in the Western Ghats.

Source: Mint September 13, 2020 03:11 UTC