2 passions
Specie: various Location: various In recent years, I discovered two passions that luckily go together like peanut butter and jelly, […]
4 Frangipanis
Specie: Frangipani (plumeria rubra) 雞蛋花 Old and Valuable tree: LCSD SSP/3-6 Location: Shum Shui Po Park Frangipanis are relatively common […]
Dead Flame
Specie: Flame Tree (delonix regia) Location: Chater Garden This iconic Flame Tree in Chater Garden will be removed by the […]
24hrs and 813kms
Specie: Japanese Superb Fig Location: wall above the entrance to Mr H. S. Punti at the end David Lane; Daan […]
Pincushion
Specie: Pincushion Tree (nauclea orientalis) Location: Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens In an earlier post about the ‘octopus’ camphor tree that […]
Illawarra flame
Specie: Illawarra Flame tree (brachychiton acerifolius) Location: Hyde Park, Sydney, Australia Just as I was enraptured by the purple haze […]
Wendy’s secret garden
Species: various Location: Lavender Bay, North Sydney Hidden down a small resident street inside the Lavender Bay area of North […]
Tree of Heaven
Specie: Ailanthus Location: Hill Road Playground Ailanthus are beautiful trees. The specie’s ‘compound’ leaves grow on two sides of long […]
One-eyed monsters
Specie: Cinnamon Camphor OVT Registrar: LCSD CW/68 Location: Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens (on the path leading from the […]
Orange star
Specie: Lance-leaved Sterculia Location: Bowen Road just after the parking lot Came across this hanging star, the fruit of the […]
Golden Rain
Specie: Golden Rain Tree (koelreuteria bipinnata) Location: Robinson Road bus stop at the corner of Seymour Road, Hong Kong Park […]
Silk Floss pink
Specie: Floss Silk Tree (ceiba/chorisia speciosa) Location: Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens I accidentally came across this spectacular tree […]
Yosemite
Species: Sequoies, pondarosa pines, black oaks, canyon live oaks Location: Yosemite National Park I had the tremendous good fortune to […]
Castelo de São Jorge
Specie: Olive trees Location: Castelo de São Jorge, Lisbon, Portugal The Castelo de São Jorge sits atop the hilltop in […]
3 continents
Specie: London Plane Location: Various I have totally fallen in love with the London Plane. No, it is not some […]
11,421.51km
Specie: London Plane (platanus acerifolia var. hispanica) Location: Shanghai, China I spent the greater part of last week in Shanghai, […]
Urbantrees of the World 