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The beak-shaped keel petal gave rise to the name "parrot tree". Habit of B. monosperma in Bagh-e-Jinnah, Lahore. Butea monosperma is a species of Butea native to tropical and sub-tropical parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. It is also known as flame of the forest, Bengal kino, dhak, palash, and bastard teak. [2]
Its common names include "flame tree" (one of several species given this name), peacock flower, [4] royal poinciana, [4] flamboyant, [4] phoenix flower, [citation needed] flame of the forest. [ citation needed ] The name poinciana comes from a genus it was once placed in named Poinciana after Phillippe de Longvilliers de Poincy , a French noble ...
Flame of the forest is a common name for several plants and may refer to: Butea monosperma; Delonix regia, native to Madagascar; ... Flame tree (disambiguation)
The elusive animals were discovered in Ecuador after extensive searching, researchers said.
Alloxylon flammeum, commonly known as the Queensland tree waratah or red silky oak; Brachychiton acerifolius, Illawarra flame tree; Butea monosperma, Flame in the woods; Delonix regia, Royal poinciana; Embothrium coccineum, Chilean flame tree, also known as Chilean firebush; Erythrina abyssinica, flame tree of eastern and southern Africa
Hence the Illawarra flame tree became Sterculia acerifolia. [15] Von Mueller maintained his recognition of Brachychiton as a separate genus. [14] German botanist Otto Kuntze challenged the generic name Sterculia in 1891, on the grounds that the name Clompanus took precedence. He republished the Illawarra flame tree as Clompanus Haenkeana. [16]
Mucuna bennettii, commonly known as New Guinea creeper, red jade vine or flame of the forest, [4] [5] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, that is distributed from Sulawesi to Vanuatu. [2] [3] The species was formally described by Victorian government botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1876. [6]
Flame tree is another vernacular name, but may refer to a number of unrelated plants as well. Many species of Erythrina have bright red flowers, and this may be the origin of the common name. However, the growth of the branches can resemble the shape of sea coral rather than the color of Corallium rubrum specifically, and this is an alternative ...