A khatta-meetha take on life around me through my presbiopic eyes!
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.
A unique growth of the Keekar (Accacia) tree at the Longewala War Museum near Jaisalmer in Rajasthan.
A must visit place obviously to learn and pay homage at the sight of the battle of Longewala and to see this unique tree growing there. Unique for its branching .
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How many times have you stopped or detoured just to see a tree? It often happens to me and my family are now used to my (apparently) random calls to stop the vehicle.
One such tree (more like a large shrub) caught my attention and stopped me in my tracks.
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This was on the curvy winding roads of Munnar. The tree was the Spiky Powder Puff
aka Calliandra calothyrsus of the Mimosaceae family.
Here it is.
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Here is wonderful tree from the Edinburgh Castle in Edinburgh Scotland.
It is said to be a Norway Maple but I cannot be sure. It had beautiful lobed leaves and its cool shade gave huge relief from the Sun on a hot day.
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