flame of the forest

plural flames of the forest · plural flames of the forests

1. Any of several plants:
   1. Butea monosperma (syn. Butea frondosa), of south Asia; palash, bastard teak.
   2. Delonix regia, native to Madagascar; royal poinciana, flamboyant tree.
   3. Mucuna bennettii, native to Papua New Guinea; New Guinea creeper.
   4. Spathodea campanulata; fountain tree, African tulip tree, Nandi flame, of tropical Africa.

      The green flanks of the uplands, all feathered with bamboo interspersed with the dark, glinting green of breadfruit and the sudden Bengal fire of Flame of the Forest, gave way to the lower forests of ebony, mahogany, mahoe and logwood.

      1954, Ian Fleming, “The Undertaker's Wind”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 181