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- A massive forest fire has eroded the forest lands of the Neelakurinji Sanctuary in Vattavada and Pampadum Shola National Park in Munnar, Kerala.
- Kerala forest officials suspect that the fore was man-made and deliberate.
- Kurinji or Neelakurinji (Strobilanthes kunthianus) is a shrub that is found in the shola forests of the Western Ghats in South India.
- Nilgiri Hills, which literally means the blue mountains, got their name from the purplish-blue flowers of Neelakurinji that blossoms only once in 12 years.
- It is the most rigorously demonstrated, with documented bloomings in 1838, 1850, 1862, 1874, 1886, 1898, 1910, 1922, 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006 and 2018.
- The Paliyan tribal people living in Tamil Nadu used it as a reference to calculate their age.
- Kurinjimala Sanctuary protects the approximately 32-hectare core habitat of the endangered Neelakurinji plant in Idukki district of Kerala State.
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