{"id":208632,"date":"2022-09-29T19:01:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T13:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=208632"},"modified":"2022-09-29T19:01:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T13:31:07","slug":"tourists-witness-the-remarkable-blooming-of-neelakurinji-flowers-in-chikmagalur-that-happens-once-in-12-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tourists-witness-the-remarkable-blooming-of-neelakurinji-flowers-in-chikmagalur-that-happens-once-in-12-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourists witness the remarkable blooming of Neelakurinji flowers in Chikmagalur that happens once in 12 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cTourists witness the remarkable blooming of Neelakurinji flowers in Chikmagalur that happens once in 12 years\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b>\u00a0Indian Express <\/b>on<b> 29th September 2022<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Neelakurinji flowers that blossom once in many years have turned the green patches of hill stations in Chikkamagaluru purple-blue.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is <\/b><b>Neelakurinji?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Neelakurinji is the famed shrub found in Western Ghats, covering the slopes of Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their scientific name is &#8216;<\/span><b>strobilanthes kunthiana<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;. Neelakurinji blooms once every 12 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is rarest of rare plant species that grows in Western Ghats and does not grow in any other part of the world. Besides the Western Ghats, Neelakurinji is also seen in the Shevroy in the Eastern Ghats, Sanduru hills of Bellary district in Karnataka.<\/p>\n<p><b>Significance<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Nilgiri Hills, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which literally means the blue mountains, got their name from the purplish blue flowers of Neelakurinji.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Kurinjimala Sanctuary of Kerala protects the kurinji in Kottakamboor and Vattavada villages in Idukki district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Kurinji Andavar temple located in Kodaikanal of Tamil Nadu dedicated to Tamil God Murugan also preserves these plants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The Paliyan tribal people living in Tamil Nadu used it as a reference to calculate their age.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 <\/span>The flower has no smell or medicinal value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cTourists witness the remarkable blooming of Neelakurinji flowers in Chikmagalur that happens once in 12 years\u201d published in\u00a0Indian Express on 29th September 2022 What is the News? The Neelakurinji flowers that blossom once in many years have turned the green patches of hill stations in Chikkamagaluru purple-blue.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tourists-witness-the-remarkable-blooming-of-neelakurinji-flowers-in-chikmagalur-that-happens-once-in-12-years\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tourists witness the remarkable blooming of Neelakurinji flowers in Chikmagalur that happens once in 12 years<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-208632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}