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Tag Archive 'tree'
A majestic and massive Banyan tree at Tattapani – just to show the scale of this impressive specimen see how the person in this picture is dwarfed under the tree which actually spreads across the road and aerial roots have come down on the other side of the road as well [Click picture for larger [...]
Jhau [Tamarisk] trees felled in Teknaf – Google News
Posted in Bangladesh, Destruction, tree on Sep 17th, 2009
 Jhau trees felled Teknaf – Google News 30,000 of them! What a shame.
Spring again
Posted in Bangladesh, Dhaka, Mahogany, nature, spring on Feb 21st, 2009
A week into Spring [9th day actually...it is the 9th of "Falgun" here]… and the Mahogany pods are beginning burst and shed their whirly-bird seeds… … and the birds are having a ball
Muffled morning
Posted in Dhaka, Mahogany, tree, Tree of the Week on Feb 18th, 2008
Early-morning sounds were a bit muffled and muted today…. made me sleep-in a half hour longer. Looked out and saw the Indian Mahogany trees all shrouded in fog. Mannat looked out and said “Hey, its all lavenderish outside!”. So looked, and I took a few photographs too, but it was not ‘lavender’ in hue like [...]
Here today gone tomorrow
Posted in Destruction, Jacaranda, Tree of the Week on Jan 6th, 2008
A massive, beautiful, old Jacaranda standing tall in the garden of a bungalow style house in Gulshan Dhaka – was chopped-down without any mercy, to make way for an apartment block. Jacaranda mimosifolia is already a vulnerable tree species here – along with the Gulmohor [Flame Of The Forest / Royal Poinciana] – most trees being being [...]