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Tree of Southeast Asia from India to Indochina, Java, naturalized also in other tropcial countries; grown as ornamental and to get the resin (Butea-Kino, | Tree of Southeast Asia from India to Indochina, Java, naturalized also in other tropcial countries; grown as ornamental and to get the resin (Butea-Kino, | ||
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+ | "It is a medium sized dry season-deciduous tree, growing to 15 m tall. It is a slow growing tree, young trees have a growth rate of a few feet per year. The leaves are pinnate, with an 8–16 cm petiole and three leaflets, each leaflet 10–20 cm long. The flowers are 2.5 cm long, bright orange-red, and produced in racemes up to 15 cm long. The fruit is a pod 15–20 cm long and 4–5 cm broad.\\ | ||
+ | In West Bengal, it is associated with spring, especially through the poems and songs of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, who likened its bright orange flame-like flower to fire." [[http:// | ||
"This tree, worshipped by the Hindus, is widely grown in S Asia, as an ornamental also elsewhere. It is a typical multipurpose tree, flowers are used for the preparation of a yellow dye (for silk especially, also ritually used), Butea gum or Bengal kino, an exsudate from the tanninferous vesicles in the bark is used for tanning and medicinally, | "This tree, worshipped by the Hindus, is widely grown in S Asia, as an ornamental also elsewhere. It is a typical multipurpose tree, flowers are used for the preparation of a yellow dye (for silk especially, also ritually used), Butea gum or Bengal kino, an exsudate from the tanninferous vesicles in the bark is used for tanning and medicinally, |