Corymbia ficifolia (previously known as: Eucalyptus ficifolia - Flowering Gum

You must have so much urban colour were you live, it must look great everywhere.

Drc726:

Yes, there's many flowering trees here in San Diego. We're very lucky because every month of the year there's several species of flowering trees blooming.

I got that impression from all your photos it must look lovely.

Yes, many of the trees are very beautiful! Although, many of the interesting tropical trees flower in winter or very early spring.

:))

Oh this is colourful too.
Mmmmm, again I say 'wish we had these colourful trees here'. :o)

Yes, these trees are extremely common. I especially like the orange and pink flowering hybrids. I wish I could take a photo of all the thousands of trees which grow along the freeways here. It's widely used as a street tree, even though, it tends to lift the sidewalks.

There's a huge Flame Gum which was going to be cut down in the Hillcrest District (because the trunk has grown around the sidewalk) of San Diego. People in the neighborhood were in an uproar and fought it...now the city is going to take the side out and redo it around the tree. I like to hear stories like this...as it's not the tree's fault it was planted in the wrong spot. :>)

Here's some more pics of this tree in different colors:

http://www.growsonyou.com/Delonix1/photos/ficifolia

Just took a look at pics.
These trees are also really beautiful.
I'm glad to hear the tree is allowed to survive. I can just imagine Swansea City Council, doing that for one of our trees. lol. :o)

Thanks! Yes, they're such beautiful tree...even though, common.

I'll have to get a photo of the tree which was going to get cut down. I'll have to see if they removed the sidewalk yet. :>)