Ippa Oil called with different names in India is considered to be an extraordinary oil for usage in wick lamps used for Pooja. This is pure vegetable lamp oil. This has no mixing of oils like the other branded oils you get in the market. This is non edible product and is to be used only for lighting lamps. Ippa flowers dont remain on the tree for long; they bloom at night and fall to the forest floor at dawn, creating a cream carpet around their parent. At first light tribal villagers make their way through the forests to the trees dressed with new red leaves where the waxy blooms keep coming till the leaves turn green, and carefully collect each fallen flower. Simply distilled in earthenware pots, fiery mahua liquor is drunk in copious amounts but the entire tree is vital to the tribal body, mind, and spirit, from cradle to grave.