In Tamilnadu, numerous such rare varieties of herbs are still now available at Uthagamandalam, Kollimalai and many places. While people are not attentive of the importance and worth of these plants, they are allowable to perish unhonoured and unsung in our generation. It is enriching that the Botany Department of the Pachaiyappan College in Chennai has been energetically engaged in the endeavour to keep them from total extinction. They are in the progression of increasing an herbal farm. The Institution is as well listing out the information of herbs and the places where they grow up. They gather these plants with the assist of the Forest officials and tribal. Moreover, the students and the staff of the botany Department are also increasing Test Tube Herbs in the Cell growth Research Unit at the College. The College has currently hundred and twenty varieties of exceptional species of herbs.

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