Bangladesh, June 9 -- The Bangladesh Tea Research Institute (BTRI) in Srimangal, Moulvibazar, is home to a rare African Butter Tree that has become a major attraction for visitors, researchers, and trainees due to its unique appearance and seasonal flowering.

The institute covers an area of more than 100 hectares (over 250 acres). The entire campus resembles a vast garden of trees, featuring rows of tea plants along with thousands of ornamental, fruit-bearing, and medicinal plant species.

Amid this rich greenery stands a distinctive tree that is well known among officials and visitors but remains largely unfamiliar to the general public.

Located in a field beside the road on the southwest corner of the institute's main office building...