Plants > Flowering Plants
Cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum), universally hailed across global commerce and culinary history as the ‘Queen of Spices’, is an aromatic perennial monocot in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. Native to the moisture-laden, mist-draped evergreen rainforests...
Mammals > Even-Toed Ungulates
The Gaur (Bos gaurus), colloquially termed the Indian bison, stands as the largest extant bovine and the heaviest wild land mammal native to South and Southeast Asia. Descended from ancestral Plio-Pleistocene wild cattle lineages that roamed across the ancient...
