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A large accumulation of plastic waste and other discarded materials is visible on a grassy hillside in the Himalayan region of India.
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Rupin Dang speaks about digitalis flower commonly known as foxglove, purple foxglove or lady's glove. He says 'Just as the monsoon is about to hit, you can see the flowers right at the end of their flowering stock. They start from the bottom and keep moving up. The earliest flower has turned to seeding, seed pods are full of seeds, literally hundred seeds per pod. But remarkably, its not a common flower here and its not distributed itself or either despite its prolific seeding, there must be thousands of seeds on these pods but the monsoon rain takes a toll on that and they don't spread too well. But it does well here'. He is harvesting digitalis seeds to plant them in the pots. This flower has important medicinal value, especially in homeopathy. Foxglove flowers are clusters of tubular sh
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