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When will urban developers' obsession with palm trees stop?
Residential societies, shopping malls, and along highways, wherever you go, you see this "Dubaification", rows of mostly non-native palm trees.
Compared to traditional Indian trees like neem and banyan, they offer little value: minimal shade, poor support for local biodiversity, limited particulate trapping, higher maintenance. Yet they are everywhere just because they are perceived as elite, and "global."

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