The chess piece in a tiny park
Specie: Big-leaved Fig (ficus virens) ‘Old and valuable’ tree of Hong Kong listing: LCSD CW/39 Location: Kau U Fong sitting […]
Another Golden Shower tree, this time in a playground
Specie: Golden Shower (cassia fistula) Location: Caine Road Garden, corner of Seymour Road I have been quite enthralled with the […]
Danger: Don’t eat the sea mangoes
Forbidden fruit along Hong Kong's most popular thoroughfares
A new “Five fingers” legend on May Road
Species: Cinnamon Camphor Location: Beginning of May Road, off Old Peak Road There is a legend from China’s Wuzhi mountains […]
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, […]
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 […]
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