Black Kite perched on a blooming Silver Oak tree
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A Black Kite (Milvus migrans) perched high among the branches of a Silver Oak (Grevillea robusta), also known as the Southern Silky Oak.
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Rupin Dang speaks about the Flame-of-the-Forest or Dhak tree
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Rupin Dang speaks about the Flame-of-the-Forest or Dhak tree in India. Dhak or palas (Butea frondosais), is a medium-sized deciduous tree. Some botanists call it Butea monosperma. The family is Leguminosae-Papilioneae. This tree is also called 'Flame of the Forest' and Bastard Teak. It grows throughout Haryana, rest of the Indian subcontinent, especially in Indo-Gangetic plains, from 150 m to 1000 m. It is quite happy in black cotton soil, and therefore quite common from Sri Lanka north-wards i.e. the Indian Peninsula, especially the Deccan Plateau. The bole of Dhak is twisted and gnarled and the branching too follows no particular pattern. It is slow growing and attains a height of about 5 to 8 m and diameter of about 20 to 40 cm when mature at the age of about 50 years or so. The bark of
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