It’s raining… flames
Species: Flame Tree (delonix regia) Location: Western entrance of Victoria Park near Windsor House What better way to brighten a rainy […]
CWB Windsor House : another blooming Hainan Elaeocarpus
Species: Haninan Elaeocarpus Location: Windsor House, Causeway Bay Never realised this specie was so common in Hong Kong. This one […]
Jacarandas of HKU
Species: Jacaranda (jacaranda mimosifolia) Location: Hong Kong University, Shaw Building entrance Jacaranda (jacaranda mimosifolia) trees offer up beautiful flowers that at […]
A mystery next to Murray Building on Garden Road
I was stunned when I happened to spot this spectacularly ostentatious tree next to the Murray Building on Garden Road. I […]
A spider in a wall in Happy Valley
Hong Kong has many ‘walled’ trees, which actually grow on walls, but the city doesn’t have many trees that actually […]
The phoenix rises again in HKU
Flame trees (delonix regia 鳳凰木), are also known as Flame of the Forest and as Phoenix Wood as translated literal […]
Forest bathing at Kyoto’s Botanical Gardens
Species: various Location: Kyoto Botanical Garden I recently spent a beautiful morning inside Kyoto’s Botanical Garden, trying out the newly […]
Little bell flowers hanging in Central
The flowers of the Hainan Elaeocarpus (elaeocarpus hainanensis 水石榕) are shaped like little bells and hang in groups amongst its […]
Bright silver beads in Central
It’s May and this obvious relative of the Yellow Poinciana (peltophorum pterocarpun) with only a scientific name of peltophorum tonkinense […]
Chestnut Oak in the hills
These flowering castanopsis/chestnut oak (castanopsis fissa) 黧蒴錐 on the steps towards pinewood battery on Lung Fu Shan 龍虎山, are easy […]
HK’s cotton trees paint the town red
Hong Kong is home to some of the most spectacular Cotton trees (木棉), also known as Kapok trees, or formally, bombax […]
Taiwan Acacia trees lighting up Hong Kong
blooming Taiwan Acacia (Acacia Confusa) trees now lighting up Hong Kong’s streets and hills with their brilliant yellow dotted flowers. […]
Spider tree amidst Hong Kong’s landmarks
This flowering spider tree (crateva unilocularis 樹頭菜) sits in Chater Garden in Central, Hong Kong, directly opposite the Bank of […]
Welcome to Urbantrees of the World
Welcome to the first site dedicated to the trees in our cities... and lives
Bright colours, big city
Hong Kong's urban trees offer some brilliant colours to the cityscape all year round
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