What is the importance of Chinar tree?
What is the importance of Chinar tree?
It spreads wide across a region of cool climate with sufficient water. The tree has several properties – leaves and bark are used as medicine, the wood, known as lace wood, has been used for delicate furniture and the twigs and roots are used for making dyes.
What tree is Chinar?
The majestic Chinar trees (whose botanical name is Platanus orientalis or oriental plane) grow as tall as 25 meters, with girth exceeding 50 feet in some cases. These trees figure notably in Kashmir’s literature and politics; religion and romance.
What is the Colour of Chinar tree?
The Chinar tree is a magnificent, vibrant tree whose leaves change colors to red, yellow, and amber during the autumn season. This tree predominantly grows in the Kashmir region in India.
What is Chinar in India?
Chinar (Platanus orientalis) is a deciduous tree that belongs to the cold regions of the world, mainly in the Kashmir valley of India. Their real beauty unfurls in fall when the foliage turns to a blood-red and mauve color. The leaves eventually turn yellow and amber.
What is the importance of Chinar tree in Kashmir?
History of Chinar Tree Mughal Emperors like Akbar, Nur-ud-din Muhammad, Jahangir and Aurangzeb were very fond of this tree. It was even declared as the ‘royal tree’. The great Emperor Akbar is said to have planted around 1,200 trees after he took over Kashmir in 1586.
What Chinar means?
Chinar means blaze or flame in Persian according to a legend in Kashmir. When the 17th C Mughal Emperor saw the crimson or rust coloured Chinar leaves in autumn he described it as Chinar. Submitted by anonymous on May 12, 2019.
What is the meaning of Chinar?
Chinar means blaze or flame in Persian according to a legend in Kashmir. When the 17th C Mughal Emperor saw the crimson or rust coloured Chinar leaves in autumn he described it as Chinar.
Why is Chinar tree found in Kashmir?
Chinar was introduced to Kashmir by Sufi Saint Syed Qasim Shah who is credited with planting of oldest Chinar tree in Chattergam of district Budgam around 650 years ago.
What is Chinar tree called in Kashmiri?
Bouin
The Chinar tree is locally known as ‘Bouin’ in Kashmir. The name comes from the Sanskrit term ‘Bhawani,’ which means Goddess. The Chinar trees, a religious emblem, can be found in the Kheer Bhawani temple as well as at other Goddess Bhawani shrines throughout Kashmir.
What is Chinar leaf?
Chinar is a very large, widespreading, and long-lived deciduous tree. The native range of Chinar includes at least Eurasia from the Balkans to the Himalaya in the east. Its leaves are borne alternately on the stem, deeply 3, 5 or 7 lobed, and palmate or maple-like, with coarsely toothed margins.
Is Chinar and maple same?
Nagesh Guleria, divisional forest officer in Shimla, informs, ‘Chinar whose scientific name is platanus orientalis is a very rare tree in Shimla. It is largely found in Kashmir and European countries, though its cousin, maple, grows here abundantly.
What is Chinar called in Kashmir?
Chinar locally called “Bouin” is an integral part of Kashmiri culture having social, cultural as well as religious beliefs. Chinar was introduced to Kashmir by Sufi Saint Syed Qasim Shah who is credited with planting of oldest Chinar tree in Chattergam of district Budgam around 650 years ago.