Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-644.21.__
Reinwardtia indica
English: Yellow flax; Pyoli.
Region: Himalayas.
Use: yellow dye for clothes, paints.
Culture: Pyoli in many folk songs; Pyoli was a young maiden raised by animals in the forest; a prince had lost his way during hunting; she tended after him and he fell in love with her; he persuaded her to marry him and accompany him to his palace; she wilted away in the absence of a natural environment and finally she died pining for her flora and fauna friends; the prince buried her at the place he had first met her, according to her wish; a pretty, yellow flower came out, named Pyoli.