Tropical Evergreen Forests

Trees in these forests remain green all the year round as the climate of the region is warmand wet throughout the year. The leaves of these trees do not fall in any particular season. Hence, they are evergreen.

These forests are found in the areas having more than 200 cm of rainfallwith a short dry season. The trees reach a height up to 60 meters or even more. It has a dense and mixed vegetation of all kinds including trees, shrubs, climbers, creepers, epiphytes and ferns giving it a multilayered structure. Hence, their economic exploitation is not viable.

The number of species of trees is very large in a small area. Rosewood, ebony, mahogany, rubber, jack wood and bamboo are the important speciesof trees found in Tropical Evergreen Forests. In India, this type of vegetation is found in the areas of heavy rainfall in Western Ghats, upperparts of Assam and islands of Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar.