The flower has developed a deep national importance, but what exactly it signifies depends on whom you ask. By Aatish Taseer Photographs by Alex Majoli IN ONE SWIFT movement, Asoka swung his ...

In 1986, Sri Lanka named a native blue water lily, known locally as nil manel, as its national flower, but a mistake in the official declaration meant an introduced species, violet in color and ...

Biologists warn ‘extinction denial’ is the latest anti-science conspiracy theory Found only at a single location in Sri Lanka, this endangered Exacum pallidum has beautiful flowers and was ...