- features an outstanding Rhododendron collection (259 taxa, 397 accessions), including many mature tree Rhododendrons too tender for most North American climates.

As well as the five production Burans, there were eight test vehicles.

The name of this village is derived from the flower Burans, which is abundant in this area.

These winds are warm in summer, and it is they which in the desert of Hami bring the fierce sandstorms or burans.

Trees like, oak, pine, burans and many other big size Himalayan species occupy major land part of Chopta Uttarakhand region.

Rhododendron (Burans or locally known as Brah ka fool) and Deodar trees can be found at high altitude peaks like Winch Camp.

On the way to Winch camp there are thick forests of Rhododendron (Burans or locally known as Brah ka fool) from which people prepare delicious sauce having a great medicinal use.

This river separates the range from the Gurans Himal to the south and the eastern Kumaon to the southwest.

'Rhododendron arboreum' (Lali Gurans) is the national flower of Nepal.

The Gurans Himal is a small subrange of the Himalaya in far western Nepal.

The Gurans are a people who live near Lake Baikal who are practically Russified."

H. Adams Carter's classification of the Himalaya divides the Gurans Himal into two subsections.

Similarly they have been conserving wide variety of plants like Uttis, Katus, Gurans, Salla and Chilaune.

Api is the highest peak in the Yoka Pahar Section of Gurans Himal, part of the Himalayas in the extreme northwest corner of Nepal, near the borders of India and Tibet.

Rhododendron arboreum (Laligurans) is also the national flower of Nepal.

Rhododendron arboreum subsp.

Rhododendron arboreum (Tree Rhododendron) is an evergreen shrub or small tree with a showy display of bright red flowers.

Species such as Gordonia and Rhododendron arboreum have spread to Sri Lanka, along the Western Ghats of South India from the Himalayas and are now common.

In some areas, larger rhododendrons can be pruned to encourage more tree-like form, with some species such as 'Rhododendron arboreum' and 'Rhododendron falconeri' eventually growing to 10-15 m or more tall.

Semicarpus anacardium, Rhododendron arboreum and Lyoma ovalifolia; Schima-Lagestromea parviflora forest, Quercus lamellosa forest with Quercus lenata and 'Quercus glauca; Castanopsis forests with Castanopsis hystrix and Lauraceae.