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Curry Leaf Tree (Murraya koenigii) (කරපිංචා) is a tropical tree in the family Rutaceae and is native to Indian subcontinent. It’s leaves are used in many dishes in the Indian subcontinent.
It is this time of the year when when kapok also referred to as cotton-like fluff obtained from seed pods spreads across the University of the Philippines at Los Baños.
Ceiba pentandra is a tropical tree of the order Malvales and the family Malvaceae (previously separated in the family Bombacaceae), native to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, northern South America, and (as the variety C. pentandra var. guineensis) to tropical west Africa. A somewhat smaller variety is found throughout southern Asia and the East Indies. Kapok is the most used common name for the tree and may also refer to the cotton-like fluff obtained from its seed pods. The tree is cultivated for the seed fibre, particularly in south-east Asia, and is also known as the Java cotton, Java kapok, silk-cotton, samauma, or ceiba.
The tree grows to 240 ft (73 m), as confirmed by climbing and tape drop[7] with reports of Kapoks up to 252 feet (77 meters)[8] Trunks can often be up to 3 m (9.8 ft) in diameter above the extensive buttress roots. The very largest individuals, however, can be 19 feet (5.8 meters) thick or more above the buttresses.
The buttress roots can be clearly seen in photographs extending 40 to 50 feet (12 to 15 meters) up the trunk of some specimens[12] and extending out from the trunk as much as 65 feet (20 meters) and then continuing below ground to a total length of 165 feet (50 meters). Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceiba_pentandra
Jacaranda mimosifolia
Sub-tropical tree with long-lasting pale indigo flowers
Jacaranda mimosifolia is a sub-tropical tree native to south-central South America that has been widely planted elsewhere because of its attractive and long-lasting violet-colored flowers. It is also known as the jacaranda, blue jacaranda, black poui, Nupur or fern tree. Older sources call it J. acutifolia, but it is nowadays more usually classified as J. mimosifolia. In scientific usage, the name "jacaranda" refers to the genus Jacaranda, which has many other members, but in horticultural and everyday usage, it nearly always means the blue jacaranda.
Quick Facts Conservation status, Scientific classification ...
In its native range in the wild, J. mimosifolia is listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN.[1]
Description
The tree grows to a height of up to 20 m (66 ft).[4] Its bark is thin and gray-brown, smooth when the tree is young but eventually becoming finely scaly. The twigs are slender and slightly zigzag; they are a light reddish-brown. The flowers are up to 5 cm (2 in) long, and are grouped in 30 cm (12 in) panicles. They appear in spring and early summer, and last for up to two months. They are followed by woody seed pods, about 5 cm (2 in) in diameter, which contain numerous flat, winged seeds. The blue jacaranda is cultivated for the sake of its large compound leaves, even in areas where it rarely blooms. The leaves are up to 45 cm (18 in) long and bi-pinnately compound, with leaflets little more than 1 cm (0.4 in) long. There is a white form available from nurseries.
The unusually shaped, tough pods, which are 5 to 8 cm (2 to 3 in) across, are often gathered, cleaned and used to decorate Christmas trees and dried arrangements.
J. mimosifolia fruits
J. mimosifolia fruits
A jacaranda seed pod
A jacaranda seed pod
Early jacaranda sprout
Early jacaranda sprout
Tree in flower in Whakatāne, New Zealand
Tree in flower in Whakatāne, New Zealand
Jacaranda trees in Bhutan
Jacaranda trees in Bhutan
Wood
Wood
The wood is pale grey to whitish, straight-grained, relatively soft and knot-free. It dries without difficulty and is often used in its green or wet state for turnery and bowl carving.
Habitat and range
Jacaranda mimosifolia is native to southern Brazil, Paraguay, northern Argentina (Salta, Jujuy, Catamarca and Misiones provinces) and southern Bolivia. It is found in the Dry Chaco and flooded savannas, and in the Southern Andean Yungas of the eastern Andean piedmont and inter-Andean valleys, up to 2600 meters elevation. In its native range the tree is threatened by uncontrolled logging and clearing of land for agriculture, and is assessed as Vulnerable in the IUCN Red List.[1]
The jacaranda is regarded as an invasive species in parts of South Africa and Queensland, Australia, where it can out-compete native species.[5]
Taxonomy
The taxonomic status of the blue jacaranda is unsettled. ITIS regards the older name, J. acutifolia, as a synonym for J. mimosifolia. However, some modern taxonomists maintain the distinction between these two species, regarding them as geographically distinct: J. acutifolia is endemic to Peru, while J. mimosifolia is native to Bolivia and Argentina. If this distinction is made, cultivated forms should be treated as J. mimosifolia, since they are believed to derive from Argentine stock. Other synonyms for the blue jacaranda are J. chelonia and J. ovalifolia. The blue jacaranda belongs to the section Monolobos of the genus Jacaranda.
Ornamental use
The blue jacaranda has been cultivated in almost every part of the world where there is no risk of frost; established trees, however, tolerate brief spells of temperatures down to around −7 °C (19 °F).[6] Even when young trees are damaged by a hard frost and suffer dieback, they will often rebound from the roots and grow in a shrub-like, multi-stemmed form.[6] However, flowering and growth will be stunted if the jacaranda is grown directly on the California coast, where a lack of heat combined with cool ocean winds discourages flowering.[6]
This plant has won the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.[7]
The summer heat is here and we are continuing to offer more items for our "Tropical Bay" collection. There are 4 packs on sale today as part of Secret Sale Sundays.
Secret Sale Sunday - May 31st round
4 items for $50 - 24 hours only
We have more of the collection for sale at 50% Off.
See at landing point of the [CIRCA] mainstore.
Our store TP :
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Secret Sale Sundays List:
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Common Names: Hot Lips, Hot Lips Plants, Flower Lips, Hooker's Lips, Mick Jagger's Lips.
Psychotria elata is a tropical tree found in the rain forests of Central and South American countries. The plant has become internet-famous because of its flowers or rather the shape of the red bracts (modified leaves) before the flowers mature. From these bracts tiny white, stare-shaped flowers emerge. Sadly, deforestation is wiping this species off the Earth.
Truck and Kpan office on Kayangel (Ngcheangel) atol, Republic of Palau.
Camera: Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 530
Lens: Zeiss Tessar 7cm f/3.5
Film: Konica Infrared 750nm, Expired 3/2003
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/100, Red Filter
Developer: Kodak HC110 Dilution B, 7 minutes
Botanical Garden of Cienfuegos, Cienfuegos, Cuba.
The 94-hectare botanic garden, 17km east of Cienfuegos, is Cuba's oldest, established in 1901. (Decades later the botanical garden in Havana used its seedlings to found its own green space.) The garden houses 2000 species of trees, including 23 types of bamboo, 65 types of fig and 150 different palms. It was founded by US sugar baron Edwin F Atkins, who initially intended to use it to study different varieties of sugarcane, but instead began planting exotic tropical trees.
For video, please visit youtu.be/DOcHVl0CNyQ
Very, very large leaf that had fallen off a tropical tree at Frederik Meijer Gardens.
Helios 44-2 58mm
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The shadow stopped me mid-step! Those are the leaves in shadow, see shot below. And those are the astounding rosy pink filaments of the Powderpuff flower, each one dotted with golden pollen. I love my morning walks. What a wonderful way to start the day, camera and lens in hand!
Surinam Powder Puff, Pink Powder Puff, Surinamese Stickpea, Officiers-kwast
Powderpuff, Calliandra surinamensis, a medium-sized flowering tropical tree
Mimosoideae / Mimosaceae
Biscayne Park FL
SERIES:
I'm a member of the non-profit society, The Barbados Photographic Society. Part of our activities for members includes having field trips for members to go around the island exploring. Sometimes, our field trips veer off into strange territory....
After I ended my short documentary series on the "Fire at Mangrove Pond", my friend and I headed off to our second location. My photography club had an invite and a challenge from one of our members to shoot within his backyard compound. Such a small space but rather rewarding. I was trying to do two thing at once: Shooting still abstracts and shooting video to practice my technique.
Let's get back to rough textures.I just happened to be scouting around back making a closing portion of my wind video when I noticed that the sun had climbed high enough to be hitting this highly textured object. I'm sure you can tell what it is. What does it remind of?
Fun Fact: This image went from one texture to another when someone ordered a canvas print version from me.
Feel free to comment below with your ideas on what some of these things are. Good luck!
Read more about that morning trip in my blog post here, with the full story behind my side project:
If you're interested, I've also made some video there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA90_Bvtanc
To all of you, hope you enjoy the weekend and have an awesome week ahead, wherever you are! Let me know what you think!
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Camera: NIKON D5200
Lens:Nikon 50mm F1.8 G Auto Focus-S Lens (Prime)
Shutter speed: 0.0015625 sec (1/640)
Aperture: f/3.5
ISO setting: 125
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Bombax ceiba, like other trees of the genus Bombax, is commonly known as cotton tree. This tropical tree has a straight tall trunk and its leaves are deciduous in winter. Red flowers with 5 petals appear in the spring before the new foliage. It produces a capsule which, when ripe, contains white fibres like cotton. Its trunk bears spikes to deter attacks by animals. Although its stout trunk suggests that it is useful for timber, its wood is too soft to be very useful.-wiki
Tree at the end of T-Dock, Koror, Republic of Palau.
Camera: Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 530
Lens: Zeiss Tessar 7cm f/3.5
Film: Konica Infrared 750nm, Expired 3/2003
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/100, Red Filter
Developer: Kodak HC110 Dilution B, 7 minutes
SERIES:
I'm a member of the non-profit society, The Barbados Photographic Society. Part of our activities for members includes having field trips for members to go around the island exploring. Sometimes, our field trips veer off into strange territory....
After I ended my short documentary series on the "Fire at Mangrove Pond", my friend and I headed off to our second location. My photography club had an invite and a challenge from one of our members to shoot within his backyard compound. Such a small space but rather rewarding. I was trying to do two thing at once: Shooting still abstracts and shooting video to practice my technique.
Closer still....I made this shot from another shot I took of a leaf. I was sitting in the grass, getting some footage for the video. I noticed there was a leaf facing me but backlit with the beautiful morning sunlight. The rest is history. ;)
Feel free to comment below with your ideas on what some of these things are. Good luck!
Read more about that morning trip in my blog post here, with the full story behind my side project:
If you're interested, I've also made some video there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA90_Bvtanc
To all of you, hope you enjoy the weekend and have an awesome week ahead, wherever you are! Let me know what you think!
Catch me also on:
Website: NickyHighlanderPhoto (dot) Com
Twitter: @nhighlanderfoto
Instagram: @nickyhighlander
Camera: NIKON D5200
Lens:Nikon 50mm F1.8 G Auto Focus-S Lens (Prime)
Shutter speed: 0.0015625 sec (1/640)
Aperture: f/3.5
ISO setting: 125
© Nicky Highlander Photography 2019
All Rights Reserved
Photographed at twilight time (the "magic hour") this Palmetto palm tree stands out against a setting sun. The tree (botanical name: Sabal palmetto) is a species of elegant, tall-growing tropical trees in the genus 'Sabal', and subfamily 'Coryphoideae'. Sabal Palmotto palms are identified by their striking spiky-looking leaves in a fan shape. The straight trunks of these tall palm trees can stretch up to 65-70 ft.
The flame tree (Delonix regia), also known as royal poinciana or flamboyant, is a member of the bean family (Leguminosae) and is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful tropical trees in the world. This aptly named tree produces striking flame-like scarlet and yellow flowers in spring before the leaves emerge. As the trees mature, they develop broad umbrella-shaped crowns, and are often planted for their shade-giving properties. The delicate, fern-like leaves are composed of small individual leaflets, which fold up at the onset of dusk. This tree produces brown, woody seed pods that reach lengths of up to 60 cm; they turn reddish-brown to almost black when ripe.
鳳凰木是本港常見的落葉喬木，高６－１２米。葉身長達６０厘米，由千多片小葉組成。成熟時樹幹形成板根，樹冠開展如傘，加上層層疊疊的葉片，蔚然成蔭，有「影樹」之稱。花朵十分密集，盛放時紅豔欲流，如風林焰火。木質長莢果在秋季成熟，呈深褐色，掛在樹上每達數月之久，冬季葉片凋零後尤其明顯。
鳳凰木原產非洲馬達加斯加，現已引入許多熱帶地區種植，是受歡迎的賞花和遮蔭樹種。它在香港市區十分常見，炎炎夏日，處處可見悅目紅花。
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I love the brilliant gold of the Senna's flowers contrasting so beautifully against its leathery green leaves.The shape of the petals is unusual with them cut out around the central filaments and stamens.
The Cassia tree (Senna fistula) can grow to 25 feet tall and is closely related to the Jerusalem tree and the Redbud tree; which means the underlying roots enrich the soil with Nitrogen that is fixed as Nitrogen fertilizer in the root nodules by Nitrogen fixing bacteria: Nitrogen, that is captured from the atmosphere. The Cassia trees are very tolerant of poor soils and also are very tolerant of salt water spray and are commonly found thriving on sand dunes.
From Asia came the Cassia tree that is also called the "Golden Shower" Tree, "Flowering Senna", "Texas Flowering Senna" and many other names. The Cassia (Senna) tree is a heavy flowering tree or shrub that is cold hardy to zone 8, however, during some years; if the the temperatures drop below 10 degrees F., the tree will freeze to the ground, but will regrow from the roots into a shrub. In the freeze of 1983 at Tifton, GA., the temperatures dropped to zero degrees F. and the Cassia tree did not regrow again.
Cassia fistula, Senna fistula
Golden Senna, Senna candolleana
Magnoliophyta, Magnoliopsida, Fabales, Fabaceae
Caesalpinioideae
Senna
Biscayne Park FL
Pink Ceiba, the flowers of the world's fastest growing tree. The inside of its trunk is so soft that it has 4 inch spikes to protect it from predators... giving it its nickname, Monkey Tree, because a agile monkey can climb it!
The Ceiba tree figures an important part in the mythologies of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures. Several Amazonian tribes of eastern Peru believe deities live in Ceiba tree species throughout the jungle. The Maya civilization believed that Yaaxché, often depicted as a Ceiba trunk, connects the planes of the Underworld (Xibalba), the terrestrial realm and the skies. Unmistakable clusters of thick conical thorns on the Ceiba trunk were reproduced during the Classical Period on ceramic burial urns and incense holders by the southern lowland Maya.
Modern Maya still respectfully leave the tree standing when harvesting forest timber. The Ceiba tree is represented by a cross and serves as an important architectural motif in the Temple of the Cross Complex at Palenque.
Ceiba pentandra produces a light and strong fiber (kapok) used throughout history to fill life preservers, mattresses, pillows, tapestries, and dolls. Kapok has recently been replaced in commercial use by synthetic fibers. The oils of Ceiba seeds are extracted to make soap and fertilizers. The Ceiba continues to be commercialized in Asia especially in Java, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines.
This tiny Florida Skipper is in a perfect power position, pointing to the very sharp... I know all too well... black point of the Century Agave. The spider web completes the third side of this triangle magically.
Despite its appearance and what most of my books say, it seems a Skipper is a butterfly, not a moth. Common Skippers (Hesperiidae) are distinguished from the higher butterflies by their large moth-like bodies, small wings and hooked antennae. Skippers have amazingly large and focused eyes and their bodies look like they're covered with a fine brown dust.
Ceiba crispiflora
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
The rambutan (/ræmˈbuːtən/, taxonomic name: Nephelium lappaceum) is a medium-sized tropical tree in the family Sapindaceae. The name also refers to the edible fruit produced by this tree. The rambutan is native to the Indonesian region, and other regions of tropical Southeast Asia. It is closely related to several other edible tropical fruits including the lychee, longan, and mamoncillo.
The name "rambutan" is derived from the Malay word rambut meaning "hair", a reference to the numerous hairy protuberances of the fruit, together with the noun-building suffix -an. Similarly, in Vietnam, it is called chôm chôm (meaning "messy hair")
Wikipedia
The dusky eagle-owl (Ketupa coromanda) is an owl species in the family Strigidae that is widespread in South and Southeast Asia.
The dusky eagle-owl is not deterred by daylight though is largely active at night emerging from its roost shortly before sunset. The species has been seen hunting during the day during cloudy weather.
Dusky eagle owl in dawn light.
We went to this hill top aiming to catch the sunrise, but alas the clouds covered the whole of the eastern sky! some bird photographers were there in full tripods and huge tele-lenses, then we heard the crows of the male bird and some flapping of wings among the foliage of thick tropical trees.
I just joined in and snapped a few shots with my cheap bridge camera #owl #duskyeagleowl
We planted this lovely, but messy tree, when it was not much larger than its pot. Now, when in full bloom, it nearly fills half the backyard.
These are very large and fragrant flowers with petals 6 or more inches long and so fragrant that I can literally smell it a block away! I love the elongated curvaceous shape of the flowers and the metal-like sepal that connects the flower and stem. Thank heavens I didn't plant Ylang ylang in front of my house as a friend recommended. It would have been overwhelming!
Cananga odorata, the cananga tree, is a tropical tree that originates in Indonesia, which in early 19th century spread to Malaysia and the Philippines. It is valued for the perfume extracted from its flowers, called ylang-ylang, which is an essential oil used in aromatherapy. The tree is also called the fragrant cananga, Macassar-oil plant, or perfume tree. Traditional Polynesian names include Mata‘oi, Mohokoi, Moso‘oi, Moto‘oi, Mokosoi/Mokasoi/Mokohoi.
Women’s fragrances that feature ylang ylang in their composition include Chanel No. 5, Guerlain Aqua Allegoria Ylang & Vanilla, Estee Lauder Private Collection Amber Ylang Ylang, Estee Lauder Amber Ylang Ylang and Givenchy Amarige Ylang Ylang. Perfumes for men that feature ylang ylang include Hermes Bel Ami, Hermes Vanille Galante, Amouage Silver Man, Yves Rocher Samarkande, and CK One Scene.
This photo was featured on UBC Botanical Garden's Botany Photo of the Day on September 20, 2017:
botanyphoto.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/2017/09/cananga-odorata/
Biscayne Park FL
I saw three of these birds way off, high up in tropical trees and thought they looked interesting. They were poorly lit and silhouettes from where I was standing. I went ahead and tried to take a few pictures and once I was able to brighten them up I realized these are quite magnificent birds, as many are here. I have no idea what they are but I hope to see them closer one day. It's also a testament to today's camera technology that at 800mm, a heavy crop and with poor light I was still able to at least see roughly what the bird looks like.
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This fast-growing tropical tree can be found throughout India. It is cultivated for its seeds, flowers and wood.
The edible flowers are used to make an alcoholic drink in the tribal areas in its habitat.
The leaves are eaten by a moth to produce TASSAR SILK, one of the silk varieties with high commercial usage for making women's sarees.
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A mature Madhuca tree full of blossom.
Madhuca longifolia
Family Sapotaceae
Govt. Housing Estate, Behala, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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