Seasonal variation of temple wall floras in Mayiladuthurai, Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu, India

ABSTRACT
Wall flora is referred as, the flora grown on buildings, temples, house remains or their
surrounding areas. Plant growth on monuments is responsible for the widening of gaps between
adjoining blocks or increasing the dimensions of the cracks already present on the surface. Finally the
architecture of the temple is fully collapse by wall floras. So an investigation has to be taken for the
seasonal variation of wall floras in a famous temple Mayiladuthurai, Nagapattinam district of Tamil
Nadu, India.

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