Driving along the motorway from Changi airport into the city of Singapore (in the island state of the same name), you notice the elegant huge trees.
RAIN TREES
Singapore's main shopping street is Orchard Road. The road originally led to the orchards or plantations.
Nowadays, like many streets, Orchard road's pavements are shaded by Rain Trees. These wonderful trees are rain trees.
In the V shape of the tree branches, in the shade, grow vivid coloured orchids.
PALM TREES
Next you notice the palm trees. But not just one kind of palm tree. Palm trees come in many varieties:
The fan shape traveller's palm.
COCONUT PALM
The leaning coconut palm on the beach is a favourite of postcards and tourist brochures.
The coconut palm. How do you recognise it? By the coconuts.
Don't sit under it. Seriously. Those coconuts drop when they are ripe and they don't give warning nor care that you are a tourist and didn't know.
Yes, you can see coconuts on the ground on the beaches. How do you think they got fro the top of the tree to the ground?
Yes, children do climb up and knock down coconuts. But in areas without children the coconuts still fall. And with children the coconuts still fall.
ROYAL PALM
If you go to Florida or California you will also see palms lining the motor routes. Palms straight up like lamp posts. The ones with the green cap, like tipped cigarettes. Royal palms, with a green 'crown'.
Huge banyan trees are the ones with roots coming out of the branches like thin tree trunks.
In major tourist resorts and hotels such as Raffles, you will see a book by Somerset Maugham called the Casuarina Tree. This is its fruit.
RAIN TREES
Singapore's main shopping street is Orchard Road. The road originally led to the orchards or plantations.
Nowadays, like many streets, Orchard road's pavements are shaded by Rain Trees. These wonderful trees are rain trees.
In the V shape of the tree branches, in the shade, grow vivid coloured orchids.
PALM TREES
Next you notice the palm trees. But not just one kind of palm tree. Palm trees come in many varieties:
The fan shape traveller's palm.
COCONUT PALM
The leaning coconut palm on the beach is a favourite of postcards and tourist brochures.
The coconut palm. How do you recognise it? By the coconuts.
Don't sit under it. Seriously. Those coconuts drop when they are ripe and they don't give warning nor care that you are a tourist and didn't know.
Yes, you can see coconuts on the ground on the beaches. How do you think they got fro the top of the tree to the ground?
Yes, children do climb up and knock down coconuts. But in areas without children the coconuts still fall. And with children the coconuts still fall.
ROYAL PALM
If you go to Florida or California you will also see palms lining the motor routes. Palms straight up like lamp posts. The ones with the green cap, like tipped cigarettes. Royal palms, with a green 'crown'.
Back to Singapore. In addition to the coconuts on plan trees, you will see banana trees. Rather a novelty if you are from a cool country such as England. In Singapore's parks, around the swimming pools in expat housing and country clubs and in suburban gardens, you will see the banana trees.
Huge banyan trees are the ones with roots coming out of the branches like thin tree trunks.
In major tourist resorts and hotels such as Raffles, you will see a book by Somerset Maugham called the Casuarina Tree. This is its fruit.
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