Thursday, 24 December 2020

THE CHERRY BLOSSOMS OF NAMMA OORU BENGALURU

 

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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