{"id":34703,"date":"2019-04-20T06:56:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T06:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=34703"},"modified":"2019-04-20T07:00:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T07:00:07","slug":"trees-of-sri-lanka-by-des-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/trees-of-sri-lanka-by-des-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;TREES OF SRI LANKA&#8221; \u2013 By Des Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #c40af2;\">&#8220;TREES OF SRI LANKA&#8221; \u2013 By Des Kelly<\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vOHekLZD5i4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">&#8220;A thing of beauty is a joy forever&#8221;, is a &#8220;quote of beauty&#8221; in it&#8217;s own right, so it is with great pleasure that I present this most interesting article on the trees of Sri Lanka, via Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne, The Sunday Times, of Lanka &amp;, not forgetting Maxwell Gerreyn, of Perth, in Australia, to our many on-line readers of eLanka, wherever you are.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">There is much talk about climate-change, nowadays.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">Politicians around the World are suddenly starting to take note about the fact that Mother-Earth is slowly but steadily getting warmer. Better late, than never, I suppose.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">Climate-change has been taking place, since the &#8220;Ice-age&#8221;, I would think, but suddenly, everybody wants to &#8220;get on the\u00a0 band-wagon, so to speak, to put in their two cents worth, on the subject. Getting back to &#8220;Trees&#8221;, not too long ago, everyone was advised that we should start planting MORE trees. Charles, the Prince of Wales &amp; next King of England, goes around his garden, not only admiring the beautiful trees there-in, but actually &#8220;talking&#8221; to them, a strange habit, perhaps, but he is entitled to do what he wants, in his own garden, I suppose. Not so very long ago, trees were being planted all over the World, for environmental reasons, but now, as if to fight against nature, deforestation, on a huge scale, is taking place, and trees are being cut down, helter skelter, in order to provide us with tooth-picks !!.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0What is this World coming to ?. I really don&#8217;t have a clue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">However, as always, I take pleasure in some precious memories of the trees of old Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. A veritable host of trees &amp; bushes, bursting out in flowers of exotic beauty, trees, standing proud &amp; tall, in multiple shades of verdant green, I remember this &#8220;canopy&#8221; of trees stretching out for unbroken miles along &amp; over\u00a0 a section of a main road, it was Bullers road, I think, shading it from the hot sun. I also\u00a0 remember watching this paranoia of perfect flora from the &#8220;Udarata- Manike&#8217;, as she would wend her way thru the green hills of Ceylon. Those were the days, I always say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne&#8217;s portable field guide to common trees of Sri Lanka, will be published in September, this year, and should make for some very good reading.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">Under normal circumstances, eLanka has to charge a nominal fee for advertising. Websites such as ours costs money to upkeep, and any &#8220;donation&#8221; is better than no donation. As such, dear readers, gentle reminders are sometimes necessary, but, these &#8220;trees&#8221; have paid for themselves. Please listen,,read &amp; enjoy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29910\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Desmond-Kelly-9.jpg\" alt=\"Desmond Kelly\" width=\"125\" height=\"178\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">Desmond Kelly.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">(Editor-in-Chief)&#8211; eLanka.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Seasonal colours\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0By Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"x_-1892428982m_-3647955039980330769gmail-post-345136\">\n<div>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">(source: SUNDAY TIMES )<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">During the Sinhala and Tamil New Year in April and continuing to May, cities such as Colombo witness a great flowering of trees, with roads literally carpeted with flowers. When I grew up in Colombo, I took it for granted that these were local trees. Why else would they be in Colombo? However, as I grew more interested in natural history I realised that almost all of the trees with a spectacular flowering in Sri Lankan cities come from overseas. In fact, this is especially true of Asian cities with many of the most showy flowering trees having come at times as far afield as the American tropics (the neotropics).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">The ornamental trees found in many Asian cities date to the European colonial period. Just as the British introduced foreign trees to their colonial possessions so did the other European powers to their overseas territories. All over Asia we see this influence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">Here are some of the beautiful trees that grace Colombo, providing shade, carbon sequestration and colour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">Pink Tabeubia or Pink Tecoma\u00a0<em>-Tabebuia rosea<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34704 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/tabeubia.jpg\" alt=\"tabeubia\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">A popular decorative tree planted widely in the tropics, this is a tall tree with a greyish bark. In mature trees the bark is cleft into deep furrows. Small buttress roots develop. The showy trumpet-shaped flowers have five petalled lobes. The petals fall off easily leaving behind a long style. The leaves have two to five lance-shaped leaflets each with a distinct stalk. In a leaf with say five lobes, the two leaflets on the sides will be stalkless and the three central leaflets will have long stalks. The seed pods split to release seeds with thin, papery wings. The tree is native to Central and Northern South America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">The scientific name\u00a0<em>Tabeubia<\/em>\u00a0is derived from a local Brazilian name and\u00a0<em>rosea<\/em>refers to the pink flowers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">Yellow Flame Tree \u2013<em>Peltophorum pterocarpum<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #003366; font-size: 24px;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34705 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Yellow-Flame-Tree.jpg\" alt=\"Yellow Flame Tree\" width=\"600\" height=\"662\" \/><\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"x_-1892428982m_-3647955039980330769gmail-attachment_345138\">\n<p class=\"x_-1892428982m-3647955039980330769gmail-wp-caption-text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">Yellow Flame Tree \u2013 Peltophorum pterocarpum<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">A tall tree with upward sloping main branches with the smaller branches inclined to droop, the foliage has a feathery look overall. Numerous yellow flowers are borne in panicles. There are five roundish petals. The inflorescences are rather showy but are often too high up above the flow of traffic in cities like Colombo for people to see them.The leaf is a compound leaf with lateral branches arranged on opposite pairs (i.e. pinnate) to a midrib and these in turn having opposite pairs of leaflets or more technically pinnae. The leaf is what is termed a bipinnate (or twice innate) leaf. There is no terminal leaflet. The fruit is reddish-brown pods which is flat and shows the outline of the one to four seeds they contain. The seeds are winged. It is widely planted in towns and roadsides as a shade tree and as an ornamental for its flowers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">The scientific name\u00a0<em>Peltophorum\u00a0<\/em>comes from the Greek\u00a0<em>\u2018peltophoros<\/em>\u2019 meaning shield-bearer. Pterocarpum means winged seed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">Flamboyant-\u00a0<em>Delonix regia<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34706 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Flamboyant.jpg\" alt=\"Flamboyant\" width=\"600\" height=\"808\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"x_-1892428982m_-3647955039980330769gmail-attachment_345139\">\n<p class=\"x_-1892428982m-3647955039980330769gmail-wp-caption-text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">Flamboyant- Delonix regia<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">A large tree which can be sprawling and many branched if it is allowed room to grow. The trunk and branches are pale. A common roadside tree in towns and villages, it is instantly recognisable when it is in bloom.The large red or orange flowers are in clusters. There are 10 stamens which extend beyond the petals. The upper petal has a white or yellow stripe.The leaf midrib has opposite lateral branches (pinnate) which in turn have opposite pairs of leaflets (bi-pinnate or twice pinnate). The leaflets are small and the leaves overall give the tree a feathery appearance. The pod is around 30 cm long, flat, with numerous seeds. It is believed to have originated in Madagascar although it is no longer found anywhere in a wild state. It is widely planted in the moist tropical belt around the world as an ornamental.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">The generic name\u00a0<em>Delonix<\/em>\u00a0means evidently or obviously clawed from the Greek \u2018<em>delos<\/em>\u2019 meaning evident and \u2018<em>onux<\/em>\u2019 for claw.\u00a0<em>Regia<\/em>\u00a0is Latin for royal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">Queen\u2019s Flower &#8211;<em>Lagerstroemia<\/em><i><br \/>\n<em>speciosa<\/em><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">It can grow into a large tree, although the trees in Colombo for example are never very big. But that does not prevent them from flowering. Guildford Crescent in Colombo is a good place to find this tree, also the car park of the Beddegana Wetland Park. In flower it is a beautiful tree which is planted widely as an ornamental. In North-eastern India it is a very important timber tree.The purple or lilac flowers are borne on terminal panicles. The flowers have six purple petals and are wrinkled. Each flower has many stamens. The purple stamens have yellow anthers.The leaves are arranged in pairs opposite or nearly opposite each other. The margins are smooth, described as \u2018entire\u2019 in botanical terms. The leaves have prominent veins. The fruits are brown and round. The leathery skin splits open from three to six valves to release the winged seeds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34707 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cassia-fistula.jpg\" alt=\"Cassia-fistulaa\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">Indian Laburnum &#8211; Cassia fistula. Pix by M.A. Pushpa Kumara and Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34708 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Queen\u2019s-Flower.jpg\" alt=\"Queen\u2019s Flower\" width=\"600\" height=\"708\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"x_-1892428982m_-3647955039980330769gmail-attachment_345141\">\n<p class=\"x_-1892428982m-3647955039980330769gmail-wp-caption-text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">Queen\u2019s Flower -Lagerstroemia speciosa<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">The scientific genus honours M. Lagerstroem (1691-1759), a Swedish patron of science.\u00a0<em>Speciosa<\/em>\u00a0is Latin for beautiful, a reference to the flowers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">Indian Laburnum \u2013\u00a0<em>Cassia fistula<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">A common roadside tree and a popular choice in parks and public spaces, this is a medium-sized tree with a light brown trunk. It begins to branch very close to the ground and can have the appearance of a tall shrub. In flower it is one of the most attractive flowering trees to be seen in Asia. The bark is greenish-grey and smooth when young and brown and rough when old.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">The yellow flowers are in long pendulous racemes and are very showy. The flowering often peaks to coincide with leaf fall which makes the flowers even more prominent. The flowers have five petals with three stamens with long, upward curving filaments. The leaves have oppositely arranged pair of leaflets along the midrib of the leaf. The leaves can be around 30 cm long with around eight pairs of leaflets. The tree has long, cylindrical pods up to a metre long. The pods can be brown or black, with between 40-100 seeds within a pulp. Sloth Bears, jackals and monkeys eat the pods and play a role in dispersal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">The derivation of the Latin\u00a0<em>fistula\u00a0<\/em>has two explanations. One relates to the bark of the tree being exported to Europe. It was rolled up into tubes and this may have given rise to \u2018<em>fistula<\/em>\u2019 a Latin reference to pipe. An alternative explanation is that<em>fistula<\/em>\u00a0refers to the pods.\u00a0<em>Cassia\u00a0<\/em>comes from the Greek name \u2018Kassia\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">Rain Tree \u2013<em>Samanea saman<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34709 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Samanea-saman.jpg\" alt=\"Samanea-saman\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"x_-1892428982m_-3647955039980330769gmail-attachment_345142\">\n<p class=\"x_-1892428982m-3647955039980330769gmail-wp-caption-text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">(Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne\u2019s portable, field guide to common trees of Sri Lanka will be published by John Beaufoy Publishing in September 2019)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">Many majestic examples of this large\u00a0 tree can be encountered on road-sides. In Colombo, Bauddhaloka Mawatha ( Buller\u2019s Road)\u00a0 has some especially fine examples lining the roadside creating a shaded canopy to the road. The bark is a dark brown. During wet weather and at night, the leaflets fold down giving a wilted appearance.There is some seasonal leaf fall but in Sri Lanka it is not so pronounced as to see the trees devoid of leaves.The flowers are in solitary circular heads. The flower stalk (peduncle) is long; around 12 cm.\u00a0 The petals are yellowish. Packed into the centre are 20 red stamens which extend well beyond the petals. The leaves are twice pinnate and have a feathery appearance. The pod lacks a stalk and is straight and smooth and around 20 cm long. The tree is a native of Brazil which has been widely introduced into Tropical Asia in humid areas where it is a fast growing tree.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003366;\">Saman refers to a local American name. The English name Rain Tree comes from a discharge of water droplets from the tree. 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