Thursday 19 March 2009

Tree tales from Guindy National Park

March 15th, 2009 7:30 am, and a dozen of us awaited another walk through GNP with Bhanu.of MNS. No, not the Children's Park or the Snake Park, but the actual GNP, as we call it. Lung of the city, arguably the largest urban sanctuary in Asia.

My favourite was this flowering Siris tree - looks like a white-flowered rain tree does it not? Albizia lebbeck, if you want to read up about it. Its got these pods that rattle in the wind, reportedly - we didn't hear them - it was not windy!