HELICOPTER FLOWER | Tamil
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 29/09/2015

You can have a lot of fun with the fruit of a tree Hiptage benghalensis. It flies and comes down just like a helicopter wing. This is how the tree looks like. These are its pink fragrant flowers. And this is the fruit, a 3 winged fruit. If you throw the fruit up in the air it just flies elegantly down and hovers. Throw 3 of them see how they hover down beautifully like the wings of a helicopter. This tree is there in all parts of India and you can have much fun by just playing with the fruit of this tree.

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