Chestnut (ThursdayTreeLove)

Here is a handsome tree that does not grow in Pune but some of its cousins do grow in northern parts of India.

Without much ado, meet the Horse Chestnut that I saw growing along avenues in Paris. They were massive trees with digitate leaves and were in bloom in May when we visited.

I could not identify to the last detail but suffice that they belong to the Aesculus genus.

Here they are

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This is part of Parul’s ThursdayTreeLove blog hop.

Red Glory (ThursdayTreeLove)

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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Cigar Tree (ThursdayTreeLove)

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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