Botanical Name - Butea Monosperma
Common Name - Parrot Tree
Other Name - Palash Tree
Part Used - Flowers
Uses - Textile Dyeing,Curing Eye Cataratcts,And Kidney Stones.
Butea monosperma is a species of Butea native to tropical part of the , and Nepal. It is commonly known as flame-of-the forest, bastard treak and Palash. It is used for timber, resin, fodder, medicine and dyes. The flowers are used to prepare a traditional Holi colour. It is also used as dye for fabric. It belongs to the family fabaceae. In India dried leaves of Palash are used to make disposable leaf plates and leaf bowls to serve food. Its leaves are rich in glucoside, linolenic acid, oleic acid, palasitrium, burin, bucolic acid. Flowers are rich in flavonoids, triterpene, button, button, isobutrin, coreopsis, isocoreopsin and sulphurein. All the parts of plant contain various different biological activities like anti- microbial, anti-fertility, anti-helminthic, anti-diarrhoea. Nowadays Butea Monosperma is largely used as dyeing colour for fabric (colour, silk, wool) Generally alum, is used as mordant while process of dyeing flowers of B.monosperma have also been used as blood purifier and its seeds as antiseptic and antihelmentic in traditional medicine.
