A khatta-meetha take on life around me through my presbiopic eyes!
Here is a beautiful Banyan tree that lives in Bangalore.
I know the city must have many grand old Banyans, but this especially interested me as it grows inside a hotel.
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Today I have yet another tree from my Travels.
A beautiful tree that .. hold your breath… more than 400 years old!
Its the Robinia pseudoacacia that has its home in Paris at the Square Rene Viviani.
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Here is another tree from my travels.
The graceful beautiful delicate Lagerstroemia microcarpa of Lythraceae that lives at the Kasauli Club.
Here it is from up close..
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This is a magnificent Camphor tree that has its home at the Company Baug in Amritsar.
Obviously very old, the trunk was in 6 parts but 3 of them seemed to have dried out. The others were healthy and I seemed to be the only one wanting to photograph the tree!
Here is the Cinnamomum camphora of Lauraceae family.
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Here is the beautiful driveway as one enters the Chateau Chenonceau in France.
These are the so-called Plane trees or Sycamore trees.
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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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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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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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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.
