Green dilemma as plants selected for highway landscaping turn out toxic | Goa News
Panaji: With a central empowered committee (CEC) seeking a ban on an ornamental plant, conocarpus, in India due to ecological concerns, botanists and others flagged the use of a garden plant, nerium oleander, in Goa, for landscaping highways, stating that although it is beautiful, it’s highly toxic.CEC’s recommendation to the Supreme Court to direct states…