in praise of flame trees

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They really are in their pomp right now! Fantastic specimens on the Calletera Turistica.
Anyone know exactly what species they are? It appears that the name flame tree applies to many types of tree around the world.

I notice there are also yellow varieties though the orange/red ones are more spectacular in my opinion
 
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They are also wonderful in India where they are called flame trees and also the blue jacarandas in Australia come from the same family and are the same huge spreading trees
 
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Flamboyans are called Palmettos in Miami as I recall?
Similarly beautiful are the amapolas in February or so.
There is an amapola festival on the Turistica road
from Pto. Plata to Santiago around that time, around
La Cumbre, Diego Garcia, etc., that area.
There were flamboyans planted, 5 years ago or so all along
the entrance to the POP airport, but they are growing ever so slowly.
Also on to La Union are flamboyans and amapolas interspersed. Cows
munched off some of the saplings, but hopefully one day it'll be a nice
canopy twice a year. They need some fertilizing!
 
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apart from miesposo and our menagerie flamboyant is the only thing i love about DR. breathtaking.
wiki, however, reports the damn tree grown on all continents (apart from the obvious one). oh well, i still have miesposo, right?
 
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Trainman33 said:
No, if you look at Wikipedia you will see that it is the West Indian Mahogany.
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Hmmm...always heard it was. What do you know learn something new every day. I guess it makes sense as the Mahogany is endemic to the island, whereas Flanboyan is not.
 
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dv8 said:
apart from miesposo and our menagerie flamboyant is the only thing i love about DR. breathtaking.
wiki, however, reports the damn tree grown on all continents (apart from the obvious one). oh well, i still have miesposo, right?
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There is someone who comes every year and collects the seeds and sends them to Europe. Any one know why? they will not grow there.
 
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xstew said:
There is someone who comes every year and collects the seeds and sends them to Europe. Any one know why? they will not grow there.
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of course they do, check wiki: canary islands and cyprus. europe, no?
 
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mahogany has small white flowers dunnit, the tree trunk of the flamboyant is quite soft wood
 
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