Saraca asoka

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In Gujarat, truly wild, indigenous relict occurrences are restricted to moist, shaded stream ravines, perennial nallah banks, and sheltered valleys of the Western Ghats transition zone in South Gujarat (The Dangs, Valsad, Navsari, and moist micro-valleys of Narmada). Across Central Gujarat and Saurashtra, it survives exclusively as a planted sacred tree in temple groves (Dev-Vana), botanical gardens, ayurvedic medicinal arboreta, and private heritage homesteads.

Saraca asoca is indigenous to South Asia. Indigenous to the tropical moist evergreen, semi-evergreen, and moist deciduous riparian zones of the Western Ghats, Central India, and the sub-Himalayan tracts.

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