And after giving up on the weather, we walked back from the Denarau marina to our hotel, passing by the magnificent royal poincianas (gulmohurs)...
The weather is quite cool here, thanks to the tropical depression...
The gulmohur seems to have laid out a red carpet for us...
The tree was named for Phillippe de Longvilliers de Poincy, the 17th century governor of Saint Christophe (present day Saint Kitts) in the Caribbean. In fact, the flower of the tree is the national flower of It is the national flower of St. Kitts and Nevis...
And the tree usually flowers before the onset of the rainy season...
The gulmohurs do have a magical look to them. They add a dash of colour to wherever they are planted. In fact, it is a preferred tree for the roadside...
And back home, in the state of Kerala, there is a is a popular belief among Saint Thomas Christians that when Christ was crucified, there was a small royal poinciana tree nearby his cross. It is believed that the blood of Christ was shed over the flowers of the tree and this is how the flowers of royal poinciana got a sharp red color...
And I am reminded of my school biology project in 1991, where I studied trees and the gulmohur was one of them...
Indeed Nature is amazing...
A Bula Bus passes by as we do our gulmohur spotting...
Here comes another red carpet...
And indeed, my dream home from now on is a villa by the street of gulmohurs...
And yes... Neeti just reminded me that the view from our apartment in Mumbai has a gulmohur in sight...
And passing by the golf course to head to the hotel...
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