Butea monosperma – Palash, Flame of the Forest

Larval Host Plant

Coladenia indrani – Tricolour Pied Flat
Catochrysops strabo – Forget-me-not
Chilades pandava – Plains Cupid
Curetis acuta – Acute Sunbeam
Curetis thetis – Indian Sunbeam
Euchrysops cnejus – Gram Blue
Jamides bochus – Dark Cerulean
Jamides celeno – Common Cerulean
Lampides boeticus – Pea Blue
Catopsilia pomona – Lemon Emigrant
Delias eucharis – Indian Jezebel

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Other notes

References:

Nitin, R., V. C. Balakrishnan, P. V. Churi, S. Kalesh, S. Prakash, and K. Kunte. 2018. Larval host plants of the butterflies of the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 10:11495–11550. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.3104.10.4.11495-11550.

WFO (2023): World Flora Online. Accessed on 09 Jan 2023. URL: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000184561.

Flowers of India (2023). Accessed on 09 Jan 2023. URL: http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Flame%20of%20the%20Forest.html.

Page citation

Kawthankar, N. 2024. Butea monosperma (Lam.) Kuntze – Palash, Flame of the Forest. In Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.12. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/butea-monosperma, accessed 2024/04/26.