are planted as shade trees throughout India (this tree is native to coastal areas from Sri Lanka through the Malay Archipelago and Indonesia to northern Australia).
They blossom in summer, and to me their fragrance always reminds me of those jittery rides on my bicycle to write the board exams, the road to my schoolwas also lined with these trees. Click this link to view the flowers:

http://www.hear.org/starr/hiplants/images/thumbnails/html/peltophorum_pterocarpum.htm

 

fragrant yellow flames...
those nervous bicycle rides
to write the board exams

Kameshwara Rao

 

 

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