Butea

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

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Butea or Flame of the Forest is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the pea family, Fabaceae. It has two species.

Butea monosperma, also known as Flame of the Forest or Bastard Teak, is native to India and Southeast Asia, where it is used for timber, resin, fodder, medicine, and dye.

Read about Butea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Butea (Earl of Bute). Legumindsx. Three or 4 species of trees or woody vines of India and China, with deep scarlet papilionaceous fls. in racemes, and pinnate Lvs. In the Old W'orld rarely grown in stoves. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

Species

Forty-two names have been published in Butea, but forty of these are either synonyms or names of species that have been transferred to other genera.

• Butea monosperma (syn. Butea frondosa): Flame of the Forest, Bastard Teak, Pâlāsh
• Butea superba

Gallery

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  Butea monosperma fruits

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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