A Dragon Eye watching over Queen’s College
Species: Longan Tree (dimocarpus longan) Location: Queen’s College parking lot, Causeway Road opposite Victoria Park As one of the most […]
A beautiful false idol hides inside the HK Botanical Gardens
Species: Mock Bodh Tree Old and valuable tree of Hong Kong listing: AFCHSD CW/27 Location: Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens […]
A walk in the clouds
They say every cloud has a silver lining and I couldn’t agree more… on this grey Sunday afternoon. Really thought […]
A murder mystery on Monmouth Terrace
When I first found my love of walking, which led to my love of trees, I was amazed to discover […]
Two ‘Old and valuable’ trees inside Hong Kong Park in peril
Species: Chinese Banyan (ficus microcarpa), Indian Rubber Tree (ficus elastica) Old and valuable tree of Hong Kong listing: Chinese Banyan […]
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 […]
The Grand Lovers on Wong Ngai Chung Road
Species: Chinese Banyan (ficus microcarpa) Location: Wong Nai Chung Road, corner of Broadwood/Link Road Imagine growing up next to somebody, […]
Three Chinese Banyan brothers on Pokfield Road
Species: Chinese Banyan (ficus microcarpa) Location: corner of Pokfield Road and Pokfulam Road These three Chinese Banyans (ficus microcarpa) form […]
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 […]
Old and valuable tree of Hong Kong LCSD WCH/16: Chinese Banyan
This ‘Old and valuable’ Chinese Banyan sits about 5 metres away from another Old and valuable tree of Hong Kong […]
Stunning Japanese pines
Pines trees in Japan are somehow different from their counterparts elsewhere in the world.
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