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Shavingbrush Tree 2–Flower of the Day 2016, Apr 12
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Pseudobombax Ellipticum, or Shavingbrush Tree––Flower of the Day 2016, Apr 11
I saw this tree in full bloom as I was driving along the carretera and promptly pulled over to photograph it. You’ll see more of it in the future. It was impossible to get a bad shot of this tree! Thanks, Judy Reeves, for identifying it for me. What a poetic name. I should have guessed its name!!!!
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/04/10/flower-of-the-day-april-11-2016-color-my-world-sunset-orange/
Flower of the Day 2016, Apr. 9
Yesterday’s flower, tomorrow’s flowers. Now I wish I had blown on its head to scatter it far and yon.
There really is a flower named “Yesterday, today and tomorrow.” It lives for three days and changes the color of its flower each day, thus the name. This is not, however, the flower of that plant.
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/04/08/flower-of-the-day-april-9-2016-time-for-the-tulips-to-leave/
Palm Tree Blossoms: Flower of the Day Mar 22, 2016
This little woodpecker wakes me up most mornings, pecking away 80 feet or more up one of my palm trees. This morning it brought a gift by bringing my attention to these beautiful palm blossoms that I usually only notice floating in my pool.
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Primavera in Bloom: A Flower a Day 3-20-16
Today, the park along the Ajijic malecon was full of activity, people, birds, Micheladas and these beautiful Primavera trees in bloom. More about the people later. It is 4:15 a.m. and the LOUD Music half a block away above me has finally stopped. Yes, it kept me awake but it sounded like a huge family party. Everyone was singing along with the music and having a wonderful time. During Semana Santa, the week leading up to Easter, we can expect more and more people to flood into town and more and more loud celebrations.
Happy Spring!!!
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Ceiba Speciosa–Silk Floss Tree
Ceiba Speciosa–Silk Floss Tree
When I first published pictures of the flowers of this tree, I didn’t know its name, so I identified it as a Mexican Orchid Tree.
I later published pictures of its thorny trunk. These photos of the trunk are new, as are all of these photos, except for the ones that show flowers, since the tree is no longer blooming. (An explanation of supposed reasons for the thorns is given below in the comments section.)
At first, when the fruit appeared, I thought it must be a breadfruit tree:
but later, when its very large pods started to burst open, revealing huge clumps of what looked like kapok–the material that was once used for packing material and to pad envelopes–I told a friend that it was a kapok tree.
Today for some reason I was reminded that I’d meant to see if this was true and an hour’s research online finally earned me an answer. Although it is not a kapok tree, it is related to it and the stuffing inside the large pods is often used as packing material as well as in the production of canoes, wood pulp and ropes.
In addition, oil from its seeds may be used for both commercial and cooking purposes.
All in all, a most intriguing tree. I was so happy to have identified it that I drove through stop and go bumper-to-bumper weekend traffic to get these additional shots to thrill you all with my new knowledge. You are thrilled, right???
What is the name of this tree and flower???? Ceiba Speciosa–Silk Floss Tree
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Pointed Giants–For Olga
Pointed Giants–For Olga
This is the art studio behind my house. As you can see, it is rather overgrown with vines and other plants, despite the huge palm tree I just had cut down because they said it would interfere with the solar water heater coils soon to be installed. So, that little scoop out of the roof overhang can be explained by the fact that I actually built my studio around the palm tree just to gain an extra foot of space without having to cut down a tree. The trunk once occupied that scooped-out place. If you look up by the electrical wires, though, you might notice a flash of red. What is it?
Here’s a closer view. Almost smothered out by the thunbergia and other vines is this stubborn giant. It was a small poinsettia houseplant given to me by a friend as a housewarming gift when I first moved to Mexico 14 years ago. After Christmas that year, I planted it in the ground near my wall. A few years later, I built the studio in front of it. By then it was obscured by a large banana tree than afterwards died. Hidden between my studio and the wall, it was long forgotten until this year, when I suddenly noticed a flash of red peeking over the roof of my studio.
It was my little poinsettia of 14 years ago, now grown into a very tall tree and surviving even though it has been practically choked out by thunbergia and the other hearty vine that grows over my wall.
See that wire running behind it? that is a wire that either carries telephone messages or electricity to my house and beyond. This pointed giant is in high company.
So that, Olga, is the story of how poinsettias are more that the symbol of Christmas that they are in El Norte. Here in Mexico, they are just another subtropical plant that in this climate often grows into a tree–in spite of our best efforts to overlook them!
I “Cee” Your Poinsettia and Raise You One!
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