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Fabaceae - syn. Butea frondosa Roxb. ex Willd., Erythrina monosperma Lam.; palash, Bengal kino, flame-of-the-forest, Malabar-Lackbaum , Palasabaum, Plossobaum

Tree of Southeast Asia from India to Indochina, Java, naturalized also in other tropcial countries. „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, from the seeds an oil is produced, the foliage is fed to domestic animals and the tree is a favorite host for the lack insect, Laccifera lacca, which produces shellac. For this purpose the tree is grown since more than 1.000 years in India. Recently it gained once more attention and is recommended as component of agroforestry systems, e.g. of the butea-paddy rice model, which is practised in S India. In Sri Lanka the tree is planted as a forestry species with secondary usage as medicinal plant. “ [http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/apex/f?p=185:46:14398042902105::NO::module,mf_use,source,akzanz,rehm,akzname,taxid:mf,,botnam,0,,Butea%20monosperma,26824]