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Rumassala Mountain   Rumassala is a hilly peninsula which lies between Unawatuna beach & Magalle bay. Rumassala, known to some as Buona Vista( pleasant view), is the subject of many legends. It features in the Ramayana, as the home of the beautiful Queen Sita, hidden in the jungle nearby. According to the Ramayana,during the battle between the Indian King Rama & Ravana of Sri Lanka, the monkey God, Hanuman was sent to the Himalayas to fetch a medicinal plant for the wounded Lakshman( Rama's brother). The herbs were namely Mritasanjeevani, Bidhalayakarani, Suvarnakarani & Sandhani. But he was unable to find the plant, so he removed a plant of the Himalayan Mountain on which the plant was said to grow. He dropped a chunk at Unawatuna ("here it fell") to from the Rumassala headland. Many medicinal plants still grow on Rumassala , popular amongst ayurvedic doctors and meficine - men.          Rumassala hill gives you a beauti...

Common names : •Red Pineapple, Wild Pineapple(English) •Ananas marron, Ananas requin, Ananas sauvage(French) Scientific Classification : •Kingdom- Plants •Subkingdom- Tracheobionta;Vascular plants •Superdivision- Spermataphyta; Seed plants •Division - Magnoliophyta; Flowering plants •Class- Liliopsida; Monocotyledons •Subclass - Zingiberidae •Order- Bromeliales •Family - Brmeliaceae; Bromeliad family •Genus - Ananas Mill; Pineapple •Species - Ananas bracteatus *It is native to South America( Brazil,     Bo livia, Argentina, Paraguay, Ecudor) Biological Charcteristics • Plants : It is a short lived perennial terrestrial plant related the pineapple that grows up to about 90cm tall and 90-120cm wide. It takes 18 to 24  months from planting to fruit. The leaves are up to 1,5cm long and not over 40mm wide with sharp apines that curve up toward the leaf. •Flowers : This plant is monocarpic (it bears flowers only one time in a life). Usually...

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