Tag: Nature’s delights

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Old Friend (ThursdayTreeLove)

Agatti Island which is part of the Lakshadweep Islands in the Arabian Sea was the destination of a Cruise we took.

I was expecting ‘new to me’ plant species but I was surprised to meet many old friends . Thespesia populnea grew at many places and this particular one was very impressive even from a distance.

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Revisit Finds (ThursdayTreeLove)

Visiting the over100 year old Empress Garden is always amazing. There are many parts that I have not yet explored.

Recently I had the chance to visit one such area. I was stunned to see massive tall lofty Sterculia foetida trees there…all in bloom and in fruit.

The same area also had massive old Anogeiussus latifolia …

Treasures found that day. Its always a good idea to revisit locations.. One never knows what we may have missed in previous visits.

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Unique (ThursdayTreeLove)

Our first tree spotting car drive of the year. We did not have to go very far of Pune, and the destination was the lovely Yellow Palash or Yellow Flame of the Forest.

An elusive, very uncommon tree endemic to our region. We all know the Red Flame of the Forest or Butea monosperma. This is Butea monosperma var lutea .. both of the Fabaceae family.

As it turns out, I was late and blooming was past its full glory. I did manage to see few flowers.

Here they are

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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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This post is part of Parul’s ThursdayTreeLove blog hop.

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