The flowering trees announce the change of season to me in Delhi. The winter nip arrives with the perfume of Saptaparni wafting on the roads. The flowers themselves are green and invisible among the ...

Flowering bombax ceiba or red silk cotton trees are a common sight around northern Vietnamese villages in March, as locals are swept up in an air of nostalgia for the bliss of childhood in their ...

Every March and April, flowers of bombax ceiba or cotton trees blossom along the Yen stream on the entrance to the Huong (Perfume) Pagoda, a famous Buddhism tourist site in Hanoi, creating phenomenal ...

India (Rajasthan, western): succulent young roots roasted, and eaten after peeling off the skin. Young roots cut in to pieces, mixed with spices and boiled or eaten raw, with salt. Tender leaves are ...

A 70-feet tall and 50-year-old fully grown Semal (Bombax ceiba) tree fell last Thursday, blocking a section of Ho Chi Minh Marg or Outer Ring Road, near Chittaranjan Park and crushing some vehicles.

Fred Berry took a trip to Mexico in 1975 because he was interested in Mayan archaeology. But as fascinating as the ruins at Yucatan were, he found himself drawn even more to the unfamiliar trees ...

The second edition of the Simolu festival, celebrating the breath-taking beauty of the Bombax ceiba flowers, kicked off on ...

The first thing I noticed were the wildflowers in the grass. The grass in Humayun’s tomb complex in Delhi was dotted with little flowers— lavender-coloured mazus, yellow-hued sorrel, blue pimpernels.