Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Pride of Burma flower (Amhearstia Nobilis)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:AmherstiaNobilis2.jpg

There used to be a single tree of this beside the Convocation Hall near Inya Lake on Rangoon University campus. It's the only one I ever saw in Burma or have ever seen, other than the Amhearstia trees in the Singapore botanical gardens. Alas, visited before I had a digital camera.

Convocation means "commencement," as in "commencement exercises," in American English. That is, a graduation ceremony.

Reforestatation--need for seedlings--

https://www.hcn.org/articles/how-new-mexico-is-building-a-forest-by-solving-a-seedling-shortage/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us