Common Name – Oyama Magnolia
Native to Eastern Asia – Japan, Korea. A small tree. With white cup shaped flowers with purple red stamens. Almost look like mini lotuses. The flowers are fragrant, but I did not notice it in the rain!
Picture taken at Benmore Gardens, Scotland
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Common name: Pongam Tree, Indian Beech Tree
It must have been 40 C outside, but this tree provided a nice canopy and offered a welcome respite from the heat. The Pongamia pinnata ( or the Millettia pinatta) is a lovely tree of the Pea family. Small clusters of pink,purple,white flowers are seen throught the year. They turn into brown pods later.
Botanical name: Millettia pinnata Family: Fabaceae (pea family)
Photographed in Secunderabad Club and Somajiguda, Hyderabad.
I love the purple-blue of the Jacaranda flower. It is so soothing to the eye and the trees are so tall and lovely.
Common name: Blue Jacaranda • Hindi: Neeli gulmohur
Not native to India, but cultivated for ornamental purposes. I read that if the tree receives too much water the leaves appear first and the beauty of the flower is lost! After flowering, woody disc shaped seed pods appear.
This was photographed at Secunderabad Club. 
Botanical name: Jacaranda mimosifolia Family: Bignoniaceae (jacaranda family)
Since the tree was tall and I could not take the picture of the flower at close quarters and till I get one sometime in future, I am putting up one from the www.flowersofindia.net here. ( seen below)
Common name: Pink trumpet tree, Pink poui, Pink tecoma, Rosy trumpet tree, Basant rani
The tree is covered with these lovely purplish pink flowers. And when in full bloom is leafless. Flowering time – December – February.
Botanical name: Tabebuia rosea Family: Bignoniaceae (jacaranda family)
Picture taken on Necklace Road, Hyderabad.
I already have a post on the Purple Bauhinia. But the sight of the pink bauhinia tree was so beautiful to behold, that I had to post the pictures here again.
The tree is popularly called the Orchid tree, Pink Bauhinia, Butterfly Tree and even the Napolean’s Plume.
Beautiful, right? Too beautiful a sight to skip.
I managed to get the pictures before the sky opened up and it started pouring. Taken at Hitex Convention Centre, Hyderabad.
A deciduous tree – meaning the plant loses its leaves in winter.
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Common name: Indian Cork Tree, Tree Jasmine
The tree is tall and straight, with few branches. The wood is brittle and used as an inferior substitute for true cork.
It blooms from April until the rains and again in November and December.
Flowrs are white and fragrant. Each flower is a tiny bell-shaped , a long slender tube . The flowers are short-lived, the sprays mostly consist largely of long whitish buds.. The long, fragrant flowers are commonly woven into an ornamental braid .
Botanical name: Millingtonia hortensis Family: Bignoniaceae (Jacaranda family)
Picture taken at a parking lot at Necklace Road, Hyderabad.
Common Crape Myrtle is the smaller version of the Queen Crape Myrtle. They are as short as 18 inches ( as this one) to as 40 feet. The flowers are in shades of pink, purple and white.
Photographed at KBR Park, Hyderabad.
Botanical name: Lagerstroemia indica Family: Lythraceae (Crape Myrtle family)
This one (below and to the right) taken at Gun Rock Colony Secunderabad – August 2011. I do not know if this is a Thorel’s Crape Myrtle or Tropical Crape Myrtle. But aren’t they so pretty! Just love the purple and white. So dainty.
