JHAU TREE

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Tamarix dioica is a twiggy shrub or small tree that grows in saline habitats in western Asia. Common names include ghaz and khagal in Pakistan, lal jhau, urusia, ban jhau, nona-gach, urichiya in Bangladesh and nona jhau in the Sunderbans.

KHADAR 

The 'riverain' an old fashion name for land lying between the high banks of a river- was much more extensive in the 19th century. The Yamuna washed the eastern flank of the walled city and broke up into thin, braided channels meandering between broad sandy bank as the flow declined after the rains. The Khadar has a characteristic riverine flora and was thickly forested in places.. Pigsticking and hunting hog deer were a favorite sport of British solders in the 19th century, and both wild pig and hog deer were found rooting in patches of Khadar forest. But all that was changed. The Yamuna has been tamed between bunds now and the sandy stretches on either side are very narrow.

The river has now shrunken drastically in volume, and what little still trickles through is  severely fouled by raw sewage and effluents. The Khadar forest not surprizingly have completely disappeared. Nevertheless the riverside is one of the last places in Delhi where you might find Jhau (tamarisk) trees, once abundant throughout the Khadar.

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