Butea monosperma: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fabales
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Butea
- Species
- Butea monosperma
- Scientific Name
- Butea monosperma
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Butea monosperma
Butea monosperma is a species of Butea native to tropical and sub-tropical parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. It is also known as flame of the forest, Bengal kino, dhak, palash, and bastard teak. Revered as sacred by Hindus, it is prized for producing an abundance of vivid blooms, and it is also cultivated elsewhere as an ornamental.
The plant grows across Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, and western Indonesia.
...Butea monosperma in languages:
- Czech
- butea listnatá
- English
- Flame Of The Forest
- German
- Malabarlackbaum
- Indonesian
- Ploso
- Japanese
- ハナモツヤクノキ
- Thai
- ทองกวาว
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