"It is a medium sized dry season-deciduous tree, growing to 15 m tall. Its scientific name is Butea frondosa / monosperma. It is a slow growing tree, young trees have a growth rate of a few feet per year. The flowers are 2.5 cm long, bright orange-red, and produced in racemes up to 15 cm long. The fruit is a pod 15--20 cm long and 4--5 cm broad. It is used for timber, resin, fodder, medicine, and dye. The leaves are usually very leathery and not eaten by cattle. The flowers are used to prepare traditional Holi colour. This footage is part of the professionally-shot stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and Digital Betacam. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... wfi @ vsnl.com and [email protected].
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