Moduga

Description

• This fiery plant has many uses from food-related crafts to medicinal cure for cancer. Moduga Chettu in Telugu, official state language of Telangana, in latin known as Butea Monosperma, is also known as the “flame of the forest”. It is named so after its orange red, fiery flowers.

• 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. Revered as sacred by Hindus, it is prized for producing an abundance of vivid blooms, and it is also cultivated elsewhere as an ornamental.

• The plant grows across Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, and western Indonesia.