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Dar es Salaam province of Tanzania (Africa)


Dar es Salaam province of Tanzania (Africa)

This during my stay in February. Can somebody identify the pink flowering trees? Thank You.



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Bathgate:

This is definitely not African Tulip Tree. It looks like a huge Bougainvillea. They can grow gigantic. There's large ones here in San Diego like this one.

Did it have a huge trunk? Even very large, old Bougainvilleas can have a large trunk. If you have a photo of the trunk maybe I can identify it.

18 Nov, 2013

 

All of the ones I've seen look like this one. I was on work assignment and didn't have time or permission to take a closer look at the trunk. I normally just see the tops towering over walls. I've never seen the trunk. It looks like a giant schrub.

18 Nov, 2013

 

Most likely it's a Bougainvillea variety. Bougainvillea commonly grows very large and like a shrub when old. Think of it as a mounding shrub. It's a common sight along the freeways, parks and in the home landscape.

Bougainvillea can also climb up a 60 foot or taller palm tree. In Balboa Park there's Bougainvillea which have trunks more than 12" in diameter...most likely they're close to 100 years old.

19 Nov, 2013

 

Bougenvillia.

23 Nov, 2013



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