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Synopsis The role of plants as a source of diverse food, fodder, fuelwood, medicines, constructional material and wide range of other products is well-known since time immemorial. Plants are integral to human existence and linked with our lives, providing a largesse for our primal useful and emotional needs. Plants with colourful flowers, useful fruits and soothing foliage reveal the physical and metaphysical meaning of nature and life. In fact, the flowering plants epitomise the perfection of nature and the supreme bliss of its creative revelling. Although, this is the world of photography but the importance of capturing the blossoms of flowers, colours of fruits and foliage by the paint brush has not diminished. In fact the paintings of flowers and fruits have in recent times gathered great significance for their aesthetic value and scientific approach. The present book is the outcome of studies made on the scientific details of paintings of plants of India by gifted and world famous plant artists, Rai Sahib Thakur Ganga Singh and Shri P.N. Sharma. Their paintings are displayed in the famous museums of Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun and they are delight to the eyes of thousands. These works stand unrivalled for their accuracy and freshness of colour. Each painting of plant is provided with description, vernacular names, phenology, distribution, means of propagation and important uses for ready reference to the users.