Tuesday, April 19, 2022

African tulips





The African tulip tree in full bloom in the Bandra Kurla Complex in Bandra east.

Common name: African tulip tree, Fountaintree • Hindi: Rugtoora रगतूरा Tamil: Patadi • Bengali: Rudrapalash • Kannada: ಜೀರ್ಕೊೞವಿಕಾಯಿ, ಜೀರ್ಕೊಳವಿಕಾಯಿ Jeerkolavi kaayi, ನೀರುಕಾಯಿ Neeru kaayi, ಉಚ್ಚೆಕಾಯಿ Ucche kaayi

One of the world's most spectacular flowering trees, African tulip tree is a large upright tree with glossy deep green pinnate leaves and glorious orange scarlet flowers. It may grow to 80 ft on an ideal site, but most specimens are much smaller. The tree has a stout, tapering, somewhat buttressed trunk covered in warty light gray bark. The lateral branches are short and thick. The 1-2 ft long opposite leaves, which emerge a bronzy color, are massed at the ends of the branches. They are composed of 5-19 deeply veined oval leaflets. The horn shaped velvety olive buds appear in upturned whorls at the branch tips. A few at a time, the buds of the lowest tier bend outward and open into big crinkled red orange tuliplike bells with red streaked gold throats, frilly yellow edges, and four brown-anthered stamens in the center. They are followed by 5-10 in green brown fingerlike pods pointing upwards and outwards above the foliage. Each of these pods contains about 500 tissue papery seeds. The tree flowers in spurts all through the growing season, but peak bloom is usually in the spring.

Info sourced from Flowers of India

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Monday, April 18, 2022

Saturday, April 16, 2022

Zen


Cat and the art of meditation.

Friday, April 15, 2022

Colours


Pink, green and blue with clouds and birds. A beautiful sight up above in the Bandra Kurla Complex.

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Thursday, April 14, 2022

Upgrade


Looking forward... hopefully sooner than later. The whole city is dug up for construction of the Metro making commute a nightmare.

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Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Hone your knives


The guys on the cycles are knife/blade sharpeners. You can get your knives or blades honed by them for a small price rather than buying new ones. A form of recycling. Very few of them in business today.


Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Colour of the month - Yellow

A profusion of yellow flowers on the trees and the street in the Bandra Kurla Complex, 

Peltophorum pterocarpum (commonly known as copperpod, yellow-flamboyant, yellow flametree, yellow poinciana or yellow-flame) is a species of Peltophorum, native to tropical southeastern Asia and a popular ornamental tree grown around the world. Wikipedia

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