Hanging Gardens Cypress

Location:

• State: Maharashtra
• Locality: Mumbai: In the middle of the gardens

Botany:

• Common name: Cypress: The evergreen cypresses, widespread throughought the Northern hemisphere, gain their name from the mythical Greek youth Kyparissos, turned into a tree by the god Apollo
• Botanical species: Cupressus sp.
• Botanical family : Cupressaceae [Cypress]

Geography:

• Latitude: 18.956653 ° north of the Equator
• Longitude: 72.804989 ° east of the Prime Meridian
• Altitude: 55.1 metres above sea level

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Journey:

• Arcing Westwards
• Path : Traveling from Mumbai into Gujarat and Rajasthan
• Date photographed: 3.08.09

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