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Brasil has many lovely Flowering Trees and Shrubs all year round. See the wide variety of them here in Águas da Prata
- Author: Urso Branco
- Listed in: Places & Geography Green
- Tags: photos Brasil rural Águas da prata flowering trees flowering shrubs
Recent Posts
Ypê in Winter, 2009
Ypê (eepay) is Brasil´s National Tree and it blooms in Winter in three colours. The White is very rare and the pink is quite common, however, the yellow can be seen everywhere.This is a pink Ypê blossoming in front of our house in early July.There...
Areca Bambú in Summer
In December the coconuts begin to flourish in the Areca Bambú. They grow so many, so fast, that the birds begin to eat the tiny ones.You can see many branches of them in the Areca Bambú all over town. There were nine branches altogether in our tre...
Flamboyant in Spring
This is a collection of the beautiful Flamboyant Tree in spring. There are many of them growing around Águas da Prata. Some are just starting to bloom and others are a putting on a really flamboyant show, as the name suggests.Scroll down and see all...
Beautiful Colours of Hibiscus
Here is a beautiful selection of many colours of Hibiscus, all grown in one garden in Poços de Caldas.Hibiscus, or rosemallow, is a large genus of about 200–220 species of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae, native to warm temperate, subtrop...
A Random Collection in Winter
Although it is winter we have many tree and bushes in bloom in Águas da Prata. The colour makes the bitter cold winter bearable. The temperature often plummets down to +15. *SMILE*In winter they trim many trees back like this. It looks like the end ...
Crown-of-Thorns in Winter
Euphorbia milii (Crown-of-thorns or Christ Plant) is a species of Euphorbia native to Madagascar.It is a succulent climbing shrub growing to 1.8 m tall, with densely spiny stems, the straight, slender spines up to 3 cm long, which help it scramble ov...
