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Argentina National Flower (54)
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Ceibo or Coral Tree (Erythrina crista-galli)
By national decree of December 2 to 1942, the Flower of Ceibo was declared National Flower Argentina... I wished to share these 3 images of this wonderful flower with all the TN friends.
In the Workshop1, can see another image with a set of open and closed flowers, and Workshop2 can see the complete tree totally flowery.
It belongs to the families of the leguminous.
Gorgeous tree when it is in flowering, provided with stings.
Exceptionally It can reach the 20 meters of height and one of diameter in the trunk.
The Trunk
The stalk is simple, ligneous; it is a tree whose ramify trunk to several meters of the ground.
There are some are ramify from the base, in this case have the aspect of shrubs.
The cup of the tree is not very dense.
During the winter the plant is without leaves and the branches that are born in spring are green with leaves and flowers.
The Leaf
It can get to measure 30 cm.
His petiole is long and its lamina is divided in three parts.
It is a compound leaf.
The Flower
It blooms at different times according to the region, at the beginning of October, see ceibos bloomed in the northern provinces. They are born grouped in the green branches, that is to say, the formed ones in the season.
The Fruit
It is a long scabbard and bending, dry, flat that it approximately has between 10 and 20 cm. in length and of 2 to 3.5 cm. wide where 2 to 6 seeds lodge.
These are of kidney-shaped form of dark brown color. |
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