The red color is prepared naturally from the shorea robusta (sal tree).

A festival is held every June to celebrate the sal tree and its flowers.

From the roof of the banqueting hall the sal trees on the distant bank might have been the masts of other ships.

They leave with a handful of flowers and coconut held on a plate made from the leaf of a sal tree.

The Terai area has hardwood, bamboo, palm, and sal trees.

In Hindu tradition, the sal tree is said to be favoured by Vishnu.

It is also said that four pairs of sal trees growing around the Buddha's bed suddenly turned white when he died.

It is a double storied building with modern living facilities overlooking a garden and tall sal trees all around.

However, her son is said to have been born on the way, at Lumbini, in a garden beneath a sal tree.

Among the Santals, if a boy fancies a girl, he must keep a branch of a sal tree outside her house.