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Drooping Bottle Brush

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  Drooping Bottle Brush / Callistemon viminalis Weeping Bottle Brush Tree Callistemon viminalis Common name: Drooping bottle-brush Family: Myrtaceae Description: A graceful willow-like medium-sized evergreen tree with drooping. Leaves are simple and narrow. Flowers are small with several long attractive stamens. Inflorescence elongated axis giving a bottle-brush appearance. Flowering: July-October Native: Australia Location: occur in institutions, https://natureloversindia123.blogspot.com/2023/10/drooping-bottle-brush.html

Eucalyptus/Nilgiri

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  Eucalyptus/ Nilgiri Eucalyptus tereticornis Common name: Forest red gum Family: Myrtaceae Description: A tall evergreen tree with mottled grey bark and a smooth creamy bark. Leaves are long, narrow and curved. Flowers are in stalked cclusters with conical ‘pixie-cap’. Fruit is woody, dehiscent with protruding teeth. Flowering: October- January Native: Australia https://natureloversindia123.blogspot.com/2023/10/eucalyptusnilgiri.html

Elephant Ear Tree / Enterolobium cyclocarpum

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  Elephant Ear Tree/ Enterolobium cyclocarpum Enterolobium cyclocarpum Common name: Elephant ear tree Family: Fabaceae Description: medium-sized tree upto 25-35 m tall. Leaves are bipinnate compound. Globular inflorescences. Fruit large glossy dark brown indehiscent and spirally-organized pods. Flowering:  February to April Native: America, Central Mexico https://natureloversindia123.blogspot.com/2023/10/elephant-ear-tree-enterolobium.html

Badminton Ball Tree/ Parkia biglandulosa

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  Badminton Ball Tree/  Parkia biglandulosa Parkia biglandulosa Common name: Badminton Ball Tree Family: Fabaceae Description: A large tree with many branches. Leaves are feathery. Inflorescence is similar to a badminton ball hanging at a long thick stalk. Flowering: October - December Native:  Malaya https://natureloversindia123.blogspot.com/2023/10/badminton-ball-tree-parkia-biglandulosa.html

Kadhi Patta / Murraya koenigii

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               Kadhi Patta/ Murraya koenigii Common name: Curry leaf tree Family: Rutaceae Description: An evergreen small tree. Leaves are compound. Inflorescence is a bunch of small flowers which are mildly fragrant. Fruit is globose to oblong and deep purple pr black and shiny when ripe. Flowering and Fruits: Summer months Native: India, Sri Lanka, China, Laos, Myanmar Location: Trees are particularly occurring in the backyards of Residential area. particularly occurring in the backyards of Residential area https://natureloversindia123.blogspot.com/2023/10/kadhi-patta-murraya-koenigii.html

Pink Trumpet Flower / Tabebuia impetiginosa

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  Pink Puoi / Pink Trumpet Tree/ Rosy Trumpet/     Pink Trumpet Tree /Tabebuia impetiginosa                                                               Pink Trumpets / Tabebuia rosea / Pink Poui, Bangalore Tabebuia impetiginosa  (Mart. Ex DC.) Standl. Common name: Pink trumpet tree Family: Bignoniaceae Description: A small tree with light canopy of spreading branches. Leaves compound of five board leaflets. Flowers vary from pale pink to purple. Fruit is a pale-brown capsule. Flowering: February – March Native: South America Location: M.G Road, Lalbagh, Cubbon park, Hudson circle. https://natureloversindia123.blogspot.com/2023/10/pink-trumpet-flower.html

Champa/ Frangipani / Plumeria

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                  Champa/ Frangipani/ Plumeria Evergreen Plumeria                                     Frangipani. Plumeria. Lei Flower.   चंपा  Loved for its fragrance. Plumeria Michelia champaca / Plumeria / Orange champak Michelia champaca  L. Common name : Orange champak Family : Magnoliaceae Description : Erect tree, up to 10 m high. Leaves alternate, simple, petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, coriaceous and glabrous. Flowers solitary, fragrant , Fruit a capsule, brown, dehiscent. Flowering and Fruits : March- May. Native : India, Malaysia https://natureloversindia123.blogspot.com/2023/10/champa-frangipani-plumeria.html