A khatta-meetha take on life around me through my presbiopic eyes!
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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Just like us humans, I think plants too have relatives as in ‘Cousins’ .. I always refer to plants that belong to the same Genus but different specific epithets as being related as ‘Cousins’!
Lets meet the Albizia amara today.. this one lives on the Vetal Tekdi in Pune.
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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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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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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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These are just some of the wild ephimerals blooming on Pune Tekdis with the onset of the monsoon. They are barely the size of a thumb nail and yet are most eye catching! As the monsoon advances, other species will bloom.
You can see more of these flowers here.
This post is part of Parul’s ThursdayTreeLove bloghop.
