Question

Q.3.Complete the profile of the given tree:/4

Name: Dhak

Botanical name: 1)……………

Characteristics: 2)……….

Colour of flowers: 3)……….

Uses : 4)………………………..​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Butea Monosperma

2.The leaves are leathery and big and can grow upto 16 cm in width. The flowers bloom in racemes and are bright Orange-Red. Flowers have five petals and they look like a big claw turned towards the sky and each flower is 2.5 cm long. Fruit pod is 15 – 20 cm long.

3. Rudyard Kipling called it 'flame of the forest'.

4. The leaves have astringent, carminative, anthelmintic, aphrodisiacal, tonic, anti inflammatory, antidiabetic, wound healing properties. A hot poultice of leaves relieves boils, pimples, skin ulcers, swelling and bleeding piles. The juice of leaves can be used as an enema.

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Answer 2

Answer:

butea monosperma

is a small-sized dry-season deciduous tree, growing to 15 m (49 ft) tall. It is a slow-growing tree: young trees have a growth rate of a few feet per year. The leaves are pinnate, with an 8–16 cm (3.1–6.3 in) petiole and three leaflets, each leaflet 10–20 cm (3.9–7.9 in) long.

red flower

The leaves and flowers were used by the local people for a very long time — while the leaves were used to make plates, the flowers were used for making powdered Holi colours and dyes. Now, however, one finds Dhak only at a few places,” Bhadana revealed.