UPSC Prelims 2025 · GS Paper 1 · Q39

Environment

Hard · Botany / Crop plants

Consider the following plant-description pairs:

1. Cassava : a woody shrub

2. Ginger : an herb with an underground pseudostem

3. Malabar spinach : a herbaceous climber

4. Mint : an annual shrub

5. Papaya : a woody shrub

How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?