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Macro syringa berrytree flower

Photographed in situ.

 

One can often smell this tree before seeing it, the perfume is heady and (I think), really lovely.

 

Growing in great swathes of clusters, the individual flowers of the syringa berrytree are very small at 10 mm diameter with five pale purple/white petals.

 

Native to this country and indomalaya. Fruits are highly toxic to humans and some animals, but delicious for birds. Other common names include white cedar and cape lilac.

 

Growing to 12 m.

 

Link to image looking up in to the canopy and flowers en masse: www.flickr.com/photos/112623317@N03/52438323486/in/datepo...

 

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Uploaded on October 5, 2020
Taken on September 30, 2020