Friday, 14 March 2014

MALAYSIAN SAKURA IN BLOOM








The sight of these lovely Malaysian Sakura flowers blooming profusely on the trees lining the route to work is what I have been rewarded with for the past couple of weeks.  In Japan they refer to the act of viewing the sakura in bloom as Hanami (花見, "flower viewing").  It is a Japanese traditional custom of enjoying the beauty of flowers.
What I have the pleasure to view are not really sakuras.  The plant is scientifically as Tabebuia rosea.  

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