THE CHERRY BLOSSOMS OF NAMMA OORU BENGALURU
Botanical Name: Tabebuia avellanedae
It is winter here in Namma Ooru Bengaluru and its Cherry Blossom time.
It is that time of the year, when the Tabebuia trees bloom with their
showy Pink Trumpet Flowers and paint the City Pink.
Tabebuia is a genus of flowering plants in
the family Bignoniaceae.
Tabebuia is native to the American tropics and subtropics from Mexico and the Caribbean to Argentina. Most of the
species are from Cuba and Hispaniola.
The name Tabebuia entered
the botanical literature in 1803, when António Bernardino Gomes used
it as a common name for Tabebuia uliginosa, now a synonym for Tabebuia cassinoides,
Tabebuia is an abbreviation of "tacyba bebuya",
a Tupi name
meaning "ant wood"
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