We have just returned from Tenerife where I discovered a number of new (to me) flowering trees. First, a stunning red blossomed tree with fern or frond-like leaves, on which the flowers look like a kind of red honeysuckle. In fact they are not related. This is the Delonix regia, flame tree or Royal Poinciana, a native of Madagascar but found in tropical and semi-tropical areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is a member of the bean family or Fabaceae so it will be related to tonka beans, sweet pea and acacia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other trees that we noticed were a yellow blossom similar to the above which is an acacia. And two types of oleander, a pink one, and a white one. There were also many hibiscus shrubs with red, white and pinkish flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There were also some rather unusual looking Ficus trees with very extensive roots and even root structures growing downwards from the tree branches. A search suggests that these might be Ficus macrophylla, the Australian banyan or Moreton Bay fig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We have just returned from Tenerife where I discovered a number of new (to me) flowering trees. First, a stunning red blossomed tree with fern or frond-like leaves, on which the flowers look like a kind of red honeysuckle. In fact they are not related. This is the Delonix regia, flame tree or Royal Poinciana, a native of Madagascar but found in tropical and semi-tropical areas. It is a member of the bean family or Fabaceae so it will be related to tonka beans, sweet pea and acacia. Other trees that we noticed were a yellow blossom similar to the above which is an acacia. And two types of oleander, a pink one, and a white one. There were also many hibiscus shrubs with red, white and pinkish flowers. There were also some rather unusual looking Ficus trees with very extensive roots and even root structures growing downwards from the tree branches. A search suggests that these might be Ficus macrophylla, the Australian banyan or Moreton Bay fig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11,15],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botany","tag-botany","tag-fabaceae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfumer21stc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfumer21stc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfumer21stc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfumer21stc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfumer21stc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfumer21stc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/perfumer21stc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfumer21stc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfumer21stc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfumer21stc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}