Sweet Capsicum or Bell Capsicum, Capsicum annuum grossum, Capsicum is not Pepper Real pepper is actually a berry Chiplun, Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India

Fruit- Carissa Carandas. Family: Apocyanaceae. A large climbing trorny shrub. The fruit are round, edible and dark purple/black when ripe. They can be pickled and made into squash. Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India.

Traditinal houses of Fishermen’s with sloping roofs made of manglori tiles and coconut cocos nucifera palms near Mandavi channel from Thiba palace Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India

Red Velvet mite An arthropod which spends the major part of the year underground It emerges with the first rains of the monsoon Velneshwar, Guhagar, Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India

Small hut made of bamboo strips with traditional sloping roof made of dry grass and heaps of hay, dry grass stocked for feeding domestic animals in a farmland Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India

Carissa Carandas Family: Apocyanaceae A large climbing trorny shrub The fruit are round, edible and dark purple/black when ripe They can be pickled and made into squash Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India

Jackfruit - Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam Moraceae Jackfruit is the largest tree-borne fruit in the world, reaching 80 pounds in weight and up to 36 inches long and 20 inches in diameter Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India

The fruit is called Kumberi in Marathi It was used to cure injuries of domestic animals like cows, bulls in rural areas It is found in India at forest areas Chiplun, Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India

A traditional old staircase made of laterite stone going towards an old temple of Lord Parshurama Hindu god Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India

Alphonso Mangoes_ Mangifera indica L. _ Anacardiaceae, kept for categorising. The flesh of a mango is peachlike and juicy, with more or less numerous fibers radiating from the husk of the single large kidney_shaped seed. Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India.

Fruit- Carissa Carandas. Family: Apocyanaceae. A large climbing trorny shrub. The fruit are round, edible and dark purple/black when ripe. They can be pickled and made into squash. Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India.

A pathway with a compound going towards a small hut of bamboo strips with traditional sloping roof made of manglori tiles in a field of Rice crop Oryza sativa Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India

A pathway going through a farmland towards traditional houses with sloping roofs made of manglori tiles Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India

A pathway with a compound going towards a small hut of bamboo strips with traditional sloping roof made of manglori tiles in a field of Rice crop Oryza Sativa Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India

A pathway with a compound going towards a small hut of bamboo strips with traditional sloping roof made of manglori tiles in a field of Rice crop Oryza sativa Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India

Alphonso mangoes Mangifera indica L - Anacardiaceae The flesh of a mango is peachlike and juicy, with more or less numerous fibers radiating from the husk of the single large kidney-shaped seed Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India

A pathway with a compound going towards a small hut of bamboo strips with traditional sloping roof made of manglori tiles in a field of Rice crop Oryza Sativa Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India

waterlily, Genus: Nymphaea, Family: Nymphaeaceae, Order: Nymphaeales, Class: Magnoliopsida. Water lilly of voilet color. Pawas, Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India.

Kokam Fruits. Garcinia Indica. Family: Guttiferae. The Kokam tree. An elegant evergreen tree. The fruits are edible and are made into squashes as well as used for flavoring food. Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India.

Alphonso mango, Mangifera indica L. - Anacardiaceae. The flesh of a mango is peachlike and juicy, with more or less numerous fibers radiating from the husk of the single large kidney-shaped seed. Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India.

Kokam Fruits Garcinia Indica Family: Guttiferae The Kokam tree An elegant evergreen tree The fruits are edible and are made into squashes as well as used for flavoring food Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India