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colors in Spring

The pale yellow hanging clusters on the tips of bare woody branches are flowers of the medicinal tree known as the Sterculia villosa, commonly as Hairy Sterculia and Elephant-rope Tree. it is called UDAL in Bengali.

 

The waxy dark-red and fiery-red blooms from the lower right margin to the middle of the image are the flowers of the Bombax ceiba otherwise called the Cotton-floss Tree, and in Bengali, SHIMUL.

 

There's a blurry image of a tree covered in sprays of off-white flowers in the background leaning to the right from the middle of the image. That is the flowering Moringa oleifera or the Drumstick Tree - the Miracle Tree - that gives us a commonly loved summer vegetable, SHOJNA or SAJNA, with various parts of the plant having different kinds of medicinal value.

 

At extreme right, the thicker orange clusters are flowers of the Butea monosperma, aka Parrot Tree, known in Bengali as POLASH.

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Uploaded on February 27, 2013
Taken on February 26, 2013