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Butea superba

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Roxburgh

Propagation

S.

Common Names

• Butea Vine
• Palas-vel
• Lata Palasha
• Palas Lata (Hindi)
• Tiga Maduga (Gentoo)
• Khua Chan (Laos)
• Kao-hko (Myanmar)
• Kosot-lot (Myanmar)
• Pauk-nwe (Myanmar)
• Paw-tohkaw (Myanmar)
• Chea (Cambodia)
• Lata-polash (Assam)
• Pilachivalli (Tamil)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• China
• India
• Java - Indonesia
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Philippines
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Montane areas.

Flowering Times

• Feb-Mar (India)

Fruiting Times

Very large twining shrub or liana to 15m with glabrous branches. 3-foliolate hairy leaves to 400mm x 300mm,leaflets velvety beneath. Racemes to 300mm long of 80mm orange-scarlet flowers, toothed calyx. Pod to 150mm long.

Aphrodisiac, medicinal uses, gum, red dye

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Mobot
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• J.S. Gamble
• BF
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• ILDIS
• IBP