Evergreen Trees of the rain forest in Western Ghats and the sacred Hindu groves

...Artocarpus hirsutus, the wild Jack, known as *Ayani*, *Angilly* in Malayalam. 

There were about 10,000 sacred groves, a rich abode of biodiversity in the princely state of Travancore before the formation of Kerala, only over 1,200 of them remain.

Artocarpus hirsutus trees in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

Pepper (Piper nigrum) growing up a tall Artocarpus hirsutus in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

Higher temperatures, falling fruit of Artocarpus hirsutus