As March comes with dry weather and sunshine, Hanoi’s busy streets are dotted with the red colour of 'hoa gao' (bombax flowers), creating attractive scenery for both locals and visitors. As March ...

Across Hong Kong, vibrant bombax trees, commonly known as kapok, are in flower. Bombax ceiba is the variety usually seen locally. Depending on soil conditions, and availability of water in early ...

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 ...

When Rhodia Mann moved to Kitisuru 20 years ago, her house was said to be at the far end of Nairobi. “There was even a wall at the end of our road that marked the edge of the city,” says the ...

Here's some good news and some bad news. It's good that most of the beautifully flowered trees of the kapok family (Malvaceae) perform well in Polk. What's bad is that virtually no one here grows them ...

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.

You must have passed by the Gujarat University road umpteen times, but failed to notice the gigantic 100-feet tall tree - Bombax Ceiba - locally known as Semal, the only tree of its kind in the city.