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Butea monosperma
Gloriously red or vermillion and flowering to coincide with Holi, the festival of colour in India...also red like the Sun...heralding the merciless scorching summer...these flowers are scentless. Massed along the ends of the stalks. Five uneven sized petals:one standard, two smaller wings and a very curved beak-shaped keel.
Residential colony. Roadside.
The flowers are used to make herbal (safe) colours to be used during Holi. A postal stamp was issued by the Indian Postal Department to celebrate the Palash. That squirrels eat it was a revelation to me.
Spotted on Feb 28, 2018
Submitted on Feb 28, 2018
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