Flamboyán (Delonix regia), tambièn cuenta historias [Spn/Eng]

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The flamboyant (Delonix regia (Bojer) Raf.) is a perennial legume tree, grown in tropical and subtropical regions as an ornamental species because of its showy flowers. It is a valuable shade tree and the leaves and seed meal can be used to feed livestock.Website
This tree is a common sight in places like plazas and parks due to its characteristics; besides providing shade, it is also attractive because of its flowers.

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Delonix regia is a conspicuous, fast growing almost evergreen legume tree that can be 10-30 m in height and is shallow-rooted. Tree can shed its leaves in areas with a marked dry season. The bole is sometimes relatively short. The trunk may reach 2 m in girth and it can be buttressed towards the base.
The bark is smooth, sometimes slightly cracked, with lenticels. The crown is umbrella-shaped, broadly spreading its long horizontal branches. The overall tree is thus larger in diameter than in height. The twigs are stout, greenish, finely hairy when young becoming brown. The leaves are bipinnate, alternate, feathery, 20-60 cm long, bearing 10-25 pairs of pinnae, each with 30-60 opposite leaflets. The leaflets are 0.5-1 cm long, stalkless, minutely hairy on both sides. The inflorescences are slightly fragrant corymbs borne laterally at the end of the twigs. The inflorescence bears large (5-13 cm), magnificent flowers, orange-red in colour, loosely arranged on 5-7.5 cm long stalks. The 4 clawed-petals are spoon-like in shape and the 5 sepals are thick, green in color, finely hairy.
The fruit is a 30-75 cm long pod, It is green and flaccid when young, turning to brown and woody at maturity. The pods remain on the tree after it has shed its leaves. The 30-45 seeds contained in the pods are hard, greyish, mottled, oblong in shape, looking like date pits. They are hardcoated. The taxon name Delonix regia is after the greek "delos" meaning visible and "onyx" meaning claw and the latin "regia" meaning royal, magnificent.Website.

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¿Quién más jugaba con los gallitos?
The Flamboyant tree also has stories to tell. In my childhood, we knew this plant as Gallito (the Gallito tree). This name was popular because of the way it looks when its flowers open. When they bloom, there are pistils, and we used these pistils to play games and have fights to see who could knock down the most. The task was to find the ones we could grab and play with. Of course, during flowering season, we could even find them on the ground; there was no need to climb up to pick them. Good memories.
The one I'm showing in the pictures doesn't have as many flowers, perhaps because it's not the right time.
Who else played with the little pistils?


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me encantooo!! esta flor la estudie en el laboratorio de la universidad es tan linda,solo no recuerdo porque esta pelado el tronco jeje usan la corteza para algo? tienes idea? lo iba a llevar a colmena pero vi que te votaron ayer, vamos a esperar que aparezcan mas ballenas 🙇🏻♀️ este tipo de contenido nos fascinan
Gracias, voy a revisar la investigaciòn que hice, creo que leì algo acerca de la corteza.
La corteza es útil en etnomedicina y de acuerdo a la cultura de cada paìs, aunque el que presento en las imàgenes se encuentra en la plaza Bolivar y no se cuanto tiempo de plantado tiene allì, por ello no se ve rùstico.
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Hola, querida amiga @mercmarg, ¿cómo estás?
Qué precioso ejemplar. Estos hermosos árboles, además de dar muy buenas sombras, ornamentan muy bien cualquier espacio, por eso no me sorprende verlos en espacios públicos.
Desconocía que fueran de esos árboles que se derrumban., me encantaría saber cuál es la razón de que eso suceda.
Excelente post.
Que tengas un gran día.
Hello, dear friend @mercmarg, how are you?
What a beautiful specimen! These lovely trees, besides providing wonderful shade, beautifully adorn any space, so it doesn't surprise me to see them in public areas.
I didn't know they were the kind of trees that fall down. I'd love to know why that happens.
Excellent post.
Have a great day!
Gracias
Por lo que entndìa de una de las lecturas es que sus raìces no son tan profundas, es cuestiòn de revisar de nuevo.
Tu post ha sido votado por @Hispapro y curado manualmente por @cautiva-30.
Hermoso árbol y la imagén que nos muestras del Flamboyán, destaca por su enorme copa en forma de paraguas, ideal para dar sombra en áreas urbanas, gracias por compartir sus historias @mercmarg
Beautiful tree, and the image you show us of the Flamboyant tree stands out for its enormous umbrella-shaped canopy, ideal for providing shade in urban areas. Thank you for sharing your stories, @mercmarg
Gracias, muchas gracias
Saludos @mercmarg la flor del Flamboyán me encanta, su color es hermoso,lindas fotos.
He visto este árbol en varias plazas y parques de la ciudad, también hay una parecida con flores amarillas.
Hola @belkyscabrera , creo que las flores amarillas que has visto son flores del àrbol araguaney, pero estas nunca he visto amarillas.
Gracias por la interacciòn
Saludos