Flora and Fauna

By: Alwin Vinu

 • Flora is all the plant life present in a particular
region or time, generally the naturally occurring
What is Flora ? (indigenous) native plants. Sometimes bacteria and
fungi are also referred to as flora, as in the terms
gut flora or skin flora.
 • Fauna is all of the animal life present in a
particular region or time. The
What is Fauna? corresponding term for plants is flora, and
for fungi, it is funga. Flora, fauna, funga and
other forms of life are collectively referred
to as biota.
 Native Flora

Classification Agricultural and

of flora horticultural flora

Weed Flora
 Native flora. The native and indigenous
flora of an area.

3 types of Agricultural and horticultural flora (garden

Flora and its flora). The plants that are deliberately
Definition grown by humans.

Weed flora. Traditionally this classification

was applied to plants regarded as
undesirable and studied in efforts to control
or eradicate them.
Animals that
come under
Fauna