Photographed at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Miami. For more nature images of South Florida, please visit me at: pedrolastra.com © 2008 by Pedro Lastra This image is copyrighted material as indicated!
This picture was taken in Penang Botanical Garden, Malaysia. The Cannonball Tree flowers are found on thick tangled extrusions that grow on the trunk of the tree. The flowers are six petals, which are large orange-red in color and are strongly perfumed. The Cannonball Tree flowers do not have nectar, so these flowers are mainly visited by bees in search of pollen.
Photographed at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
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I feel so fortunate to be just a short drive away from the amazing "Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden", home to so many exotic tropical plants. Walking through the garden is always an uplifting experience. The abundance of so many colorful flowers is a sight to be seen! Below are a few of my favorites. Giant Milkweed (Calotropis gigantus) Passion Flower (Passiflora) Jade Vine (Strongylodon macrobotrys) Chalice Vine (Solandra maxima) Flower of the Cannon Ball Tree (Couroupita guianensis) Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
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Also called as 'Shivalinga flowers' ,'Nagamalli flowers' or 'Mallikarjuna flowers' . ---------------------------------- The trees are grown extensively in Shiva temples in India. It is considered a sacred tree among Hindus because the flower resembles a nagam or a sacred snake on the central large shiva lingam and numerous shivalingams around.
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Cannon ball tree (Couroupita guianensis) Captured at the Flecker Botanical Gardens - Cairns Qld Australia. The cannon ball tree is one of the more spectacular South American trees to be planted in subtropical and tropical botanical gardens throughout the world. The species was given the name Couroupita guianensis in 1775 by the French botanist J. F. Aublet and is a member of the Brazil nut family. The cannon ball tree is planted in gardens because the flowers are large, beautiful, pleasantly aromatic, and unlike any other flower a newcomer to the tropics has ever seen. Even the fruits are a botanical curiosity because they are in the shape and size of cannon balls that, like the flowers, arise from the trunk of the tree. In contrast to the flowers, they release a foetid aroma when they hit the ground and break open. More interesting information can be found here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couroupita_guianensis
Couroupita est un grand arbre appelé Boulet de canon du fait que les fruits s'entrechoquent au vent en faisant entendre comme un grondement de canon.
Indian cannonball flowers in gum paste
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Flowers of Couroupita guianensis, known as the Cannonball tree, due to its hard, woody, spherical fruits. The Tree is native to tropical South America, but seems to have been growing in India for at least 3000 years. How it got to India is a mystery. These highly fragrant flowers were given to Shri Mataji on many occasions. She was very fond of them and commented that they are the flowers of the Sahasrara Chakra. I have also heard that the rose is associated with this Chakra. The trees are grown extensively in Shiva temples in India, where they are called Shiv Kamal and Kailaspati. It is called the Nagalingam tree in Tamil. The flowers are called Shivalinga flowers in Hindi; Nagalinga Pushpa in Kannada; Nagamalli flowers or Mallikarjuna flowers in Telugu. Hindus revere it as a sacred tree because the petals of the flower resemble the hood of the Naga, a sacred snake, protecting a Shiva Lingam, the stigma.
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( Couroupita guianensis ) Fam. Lecythidaceae Origin / Origem : South / Central America América-do-Sul e Central * Tree / Árvore Photo : LUIS BACHER
