Seasonal colours By Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne View(s): View(s):During the Sinhala and Tamil New Year in April and continuing to May, cities such as Colombo witness a great flowering of trees, with roads literally carpeted with flowers. Here are some of the beautiful trees that grace Colombo, providing shade, carbon sequestration and colour. In a leaf with say five lobes, the two leaflets on the sides will be stalkless and the three central leaflets will have long stalks. Queen’s Flower -LagerstroemiaspeciosaIt can grow into a large tree, although the trees in Colombo for example are never very big. The tree has long, cylindrical pods up to a metre long.

Source: Sunday Times April 12, 2019 14:37 UTC