Sun setting on trees! Ban Por area, Samui.

Up in the mountains today.

Normally people would pick these flowers to eat in their kanom jeen nam ngiaw but this tree was perhaps too difficult to reach on the side of the mountain.

Edited January 28, 201610 yr by villagefarang

oh!!! finally blue skies and warmed up on Samui, again today! One of the local trees ..

Same tree looking up!

Hey DAL,that tree of yours,turned out very nice eh?

Hey DAL,that tree of yours,turned out very nice eh?

Yeah shaggy. It was quite the adventure. I'm surprised the memory card survived the mad motorbike trip back. ^^

A nice pair...

and a big one...

As in Ayuttaya

A place in the shade.

A bus stop on main rd 22 and a mangoo tree ; we will have free fruits in a few days ..

Looks like someone has their bag ready ^^^ better be early ATX

Nice specimen near the beach close to me... (nice looking house too!)

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And some young rubber trees

Trees at HomePro Chalong. Never noticed them until I parked up against one (not actually touching, I must add)...

Edited April 9, 201610 yr by JetsetBkk

This morning during my MTBike balade

Perhaps trying to train a young tree?

This morning , Issan countryside

Almost above the trees

I love the flame trees at this time of year.... here are two beside each other with orangy colour and deep red blossoms

Normally people would pick these flowers to eat in their kanom jeen nam ngiaw but this tree was perhaps too difficult to reach on the side of the mountain.

I've never seen anyone climb to pick the flowers, but those which fall (after the Mynah birds eat their fill) are quickly gathered by any passers by if beside a road. You know that these trees have spikey trunks, and are said to be in the hell for adulterers, and to be climbed naked?

This orange flame tree is trying to hide behind the coconut... not too successfully... I could not get a better view!

I prefer the red more than the orange flowers!

Normally people would pick these flowers to eat in their kanom jeen nam ngiaw but this tree was perhaps too difficult to reach on the side of the mountain.

I've never seen anyone climb to pick the flowers, but those which fall (after the Mynah birds eat their fill) are quickly gathered by any passers by if beside a road. You know that these trees have spikey trunks, and are said to be in the hell for adulterers, and to be climbed naked?

Naam Ngiaw is very popular here in the North so people gather the flowers pretty quickly after they fall.

Edited May 15, 201610 yr by villagefarang

after a fire the first thing to recover and show green are the banana trunks because they grow from the inside and their cell structure holds much water.... next are the bamboo shoots (in the foreground).

Nongai, I like very much your explanations about the trees and their flowers and also about what happens after a fire in the mountains.