Pondicherry Petrified Podocarp
At the Jardin Botanique in an old French Colony, an fragment of a fossilized conifer fossil has been placed upright with smaller pieces of petrified wood
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Botany:
- Common name: Podocarp: A fossil of the Southern Hemisphere podocarps, once widespread throughout South America, Africa, India, Australia, and Antarctica
- Botanical species: Podocarpaceae sp. Fossil
- Botanical family : Podocarpaceae [Podocarp]
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Geography:
- Latitude: 11.92761143 ° north of the Equator
- Longitude: 79.82321953 ° east of the Prime Meridian
- Altitude: 18.5 metres above sea level
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Journey:
- Shooting Southwards
- Path : From Mumbai inland to Maharashtra, then south into Andhra and Karnataka and coastal Tamil Nadu
- Date photographed: 12.02.09

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For the landmarked tree named Pondicherry Petrified Podocarp , the database reference code is: d083.
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