Palash

About this plant

Description Growing Palash is best to add a tropical flair to your garden. When you know that it has a unique flower shape, color, and how to care for Palash plants, you will be rewarded with many years of lovely flowers. What makes it special: One of the best attractive flowering plants. Low maintenance plant. The perfect plant to add color to your garden. It is also believed that Palash is the form of the God of life himself- Agni. This product does not have flowers at the time of shipping. After 2-3 years, the plant will bloom and that will be of the orange-colored flower. Palash is a species of Butea monosperma and belongs to the Fabaceae family, native to tropical and sub-tropical parts of the Indian Subcontinent. Palash plant grows as a medium-sized deciduous tree, and it is native to India. The tree grows up to 20 meters high and has a distinctive appearance due to its grey bark, irregular branches, and crooked trunk. The tree doesn’t flower until January, and even its leaves fall until then, from January to March, the tree is loaded with orange flowers, which also lend it the most famous name, The Tree of the Flame. The flowers have five petals with a beak-shaped keel. The keel also earns it another colloquial name- parrot tree. Birds are the main pollinators of the flowers. The flowers grow in clusters on leafless branches.