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Maharashtra: Kaas Plateau
Maharashtra: Kaas Plateau
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Kaas Plateau is a stunning repository of floral biodiversity. Texts and photographs by Kedar Bhat
August 18, 2014
A Maharashtra State Transport bus trundles through the plateau
A profusion of gend or tuberous pipewort covers the plateau in season
A tall carpet of purple bloom locally known as topli karvy (Pleocaulus ritchiei), which mass-blooms only once every seven years
Drosera burmanii, a small, compact carnivorous sundew that can curl around an insect in a matter of a few seconds and then devour it
A purple-pink bloom belonging to the genus Rungia
A close-up of the golden-backed ant which thrives in Kaas plateau
floral biodiversity
flowers
Kaas Plateau
Maharashtra