Design Case study
North East Indian State Symbols
Cultural Mapping of State Icons
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State Manipur
Forests, consisting of short and tall trees, cover about 77 percent of the total geographical area of the state of Manipur.
Lilium mackliniae, the Shirui lily or Shirui Kashung Timrawon, is a rare Indian species only in the upper reaches of the Shirui hill ranges in the Ukhrul district of Manipur is the state flower. Phoebe hainesiana (common name uningthou and bonsum), a species of tree in the family Lauraceae is the state tree of Manipur.
The Keibul Lamjao National Park, situated in the south-eastern fringes of the Loktak Lake, is the only home of marsh-dwelling brow-antlered deer, ‘Sangai’ (Cervus eldi eldi) which is the state animal. Hume’s pheasant, the bar-tailed pheasant, is the state bird of Manipur, is a large, forest pheasant with a greyish brown head, bare red facial skin, chestnut-brown plumage, yellowish bill, brownish-orange iris, white wing bars, and metallic blue neck feathers.
State Animal - Sangai (Rucervus eldii eldii)
State Bird - Nongin (Syrmaticus humiae)
State Flower - Siroi lily (Lilium mackliniae)
State Tree - Uningthou (Phoebe hainesiana)
