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 […]
Old and valuable tree of Hong Kong LCSD CW/15: Chinese Banyan
This venerable Chinese Banyan (ficus microcarpa) stands outside the entrance to the Sai Ying Pun MTR station on Bonham Road. […]
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 […]
A slender arm beside a Rodinesque physique
Species: Chinese Banyan (ficus microcarpa) Old and valuable tree of Hong Kong listing: CW/10, CW/11 Location: Pok Fu Lam Road, […]
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 […]
Old and valuable tree of Hong Kong LCSD WCH/15: Spider Tree
One of Hong Kong’s Old and valuable tree, this Spider Tree (creteva unilocularis 樹頭菜) is located inside Wanchai Park, a […]
Indian Rubber trees on Victoria Peak
Indian Rubber trees (ficus elastica 印度榕) are quite common in Hong Kong, but these few besides the hills along Lugard […]
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 […]
Old and valuable tree of Hong Kong AFCD QB/002: Chinese Banyan
An ‘Old and valuable’ tree of Hong Kong. This Chinese Banyan (ficus microcarpa 細葉榕) is located at the entrance of […]
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 […]
Urbantrees of the World 