Know ur local trees Palash trees r in bloom since winter. Besides making colour for forthcoming Rang Panchami, the flowers r used for making sherbet by soaking clean petals, drying it and using pd for sherbet and making Gulkand in similar way to desi roses in layer method…flower petals and sugar/khadi sakar layered in glass bottle kept in sun. Making this now in flowering time and having the gulkand round the year heals our body of various ailments like heat in body, skin ailments, gout, etc .