Several weeks ago, during the Chinese New Year, Grace and I made a day trip to the Southern Taiwan city of Kaohsiung. We saw this flowering tree by the road, it had no leaves but with beautiful clusters of yellow flowers. The trees are over two-story high. We have no idea what it is and thought that the flower very much looks like the flowers of rhododendron or azalea. Then we thought that it may be the deciduous rhododendron that we once planted on Cape Cod. However, after much search of the Kaohsiung city government website and internet, we realized that it is Yellow Ipê (黃花風鈴木), Tabebuia chrysantha. Chrysantha is derived from Greek words of Golden Flower. It is a deciduous intertropical broadleaf of South America. It is the national Tree of Venezuela.
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14 comments:
A beautiful South American flower on your side of the planet. It is doing well!
Wow what a lovely colour and exciting shot.
Simply beautiful! Love the color!
Beautiful flower. I love the color and the curling form.
I am so glad you did some investigation on this beautiful bloom. Thank you very much for sharing and have a great week.
Amazing golden bloom!
So yellow! Love the color. Great shot!
I have seen flowering Tabuia trees on caribbean islands. Love your picture!
Great shot.
A lovely macro shot! I enlarged it - wow! Really exciting!
What a great find and detective work. It is always so satisfying to not only discover something new, but also to be able to identify it. Great post.
Beautiful! love that busting color of yellow.
It had a fitting name indeed, though I agree that it was not unlike rhododendrons. Rhododendrons are my favourite flowers and I always look forward to May, when they really show off here.
Lovely.
Just want to wish you HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!
Have you a great one!
hugs
shakira
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