Guess what?? I have a new favorite flower: the frangipani!
You might know it as the Hawaiian lei flower, but it grows here -- on trees! It comes in white, light pink and light yellow and is absolutely gorgeous and smells beautifully. What more do you want in a flower?
The trees here are magnificent in general -- some tremendously big, some full of hanging vines that are actually supposed to be there, some with unusual bark and some twisty and turny. They're beautiful.
You might know it as the Hawaiian lei flower, but it grows here -- on trees! It comes in white, light pink and light yellow and is absolutely gorgeous and smells beautifully. What more do you want in a flower?
The trees here are magnificent in general -- some tremendously big, some full of hanging vines that are actually supposed to be there, some with unusual bark and some twisty and turny. They're beautiful.
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Yep. Totally agree. Gum Trees are cool, Wattles are inspiring (if hay fevery) but you can't go past a good frangipani for how plants are supposed to be. If they grew nice fruit they'd be perfect.
I particularly like the wood nymph that comes with this tree. Do you find that in many Australian trees?
The ones with the 'hanging vines that are actually supposed to be there' are probably figs. Those hanging vines are actually aerial roots that will become full-on roots then morph into extra 'trunks' when they hit the ground and become established. If you want to keep a fig tree in check so it doesn't take over the world, you have to lop off those babies every so often. However, if you want a beautiful, massive tree that provides a huge area of lovely, welcome shade, then just let nature take its course.
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