Top Dying Affected Sundari Trees in Bangladesh

Abstract

Simdari trees, the traditional assets from which the name of Sunderbans once came have gradually been reducing from the Sunderbans of Bangladesh due to severe top-dying disease. Sundari (Heritiera fomes) grows prolifically in the Bangladesh part of the Sunderbans as because of less water salinity in the surrounding rivers rather than that of Indian part. Further Simdari is the principal timber tree of the forest region of the Sunderbans for its several visible adaptive features like ischolar_main buttress luxuriant leaves, pearl looking inflorescences etc. It has a strong domestic demand for multipurpose uses as it is a hard durable wood with reddish colour.