A khatta-meetha take on life around me through my presbiopic eyes!
Here is a tree from my travels… one that had red foliage in the month of May. I always thought that trees in the temperate climates had these glorious colours in autumn.
But this was an exception I guess.
Here is the lovely Fagus sylvatica ‘Atropunica‘ that I saw in the Luxemborg Garden in Paris.
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This post is part of Parul’s ThursdayTreeLove blog hop.
The Chincha or Tamarind or Imli is wearing its beautiful coat of fresh feathery green leaves. In the blazing heat, it is soothing to the eyes and its shade is cool respite to anyone out on the roads during the day.
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Its part of Parul‘s ThursdayTreeLove bloghop.
A wonderful tree that literally stopped me in my tracks! And as I was crossing the road . This was in London but rest assured, I had sufficient time to stay back at the traffic signal and photograph it.
The Cigar Tree – That’s what I think it is!! Catalpa speciosa.
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A stately tree that grows on Pune hills and the plains around the city as well.
I saw many trees in full bloom in the Maval area all buzzing with lots of bees.
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A post on the usual red flowered Seemal to follow the yellow bombax!!
Here is the Silk Cotton Tree/Shyamali aka Bombax ceiba of the Malvaceae family.
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This post is not about tree plantation rather about a drive that I went on just to see an Bombax ceiba with yellow flowers.
Yes,, yellow and not red/pink.
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A wonderfully imposing Peepal standing alone and tall in a parking lot in Pune. Being leafless actually added to its beauty!!
Chocolate or cocoa is omnipresent in our lives. We use to as a gift or a treat or a comfort food or to reward ourselves or on a cheat day of a diet!
It is made from the fruit of the Theobroma cacao trees. Though an introduced speices in India it is widely cultivated in the state of Kerala.
Here are its flowers. You can read the entire post here.
“Ancient trees are precious. There is little else on Earth that plays host to such a rich community of life within a single living organism” Sir David Attenborough
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