Poui Tree

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Poui Tree (Tabebuia Family)

***** Location: Trinidad and Tobago, Tropics
***** Season: Tropical Rainy Season
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation

Pink Poui, Pink Trumpet Tree

First Bloom of The Poui (yellow) also called golden poui and (pink); first bloom may start as early as late March or early April and is a dramatic spectacle and it is accepted as a signal for the approaching Rainy Season and an end to the Dry Season in Trinidad and Tobago

Blossom Fall The poui blossom fall would be around late April and during May as the blossoming of the Poui is usually a sign of the coming Rainy season which starts in June.

Late Bloom September we may have another blossoming and fall but the April /May is most dramatic as it presages the Rainy season. The September bloom sort of ushering out the Rainy Season and its the Hurricane phase
I remember a little poem from my childhood pertaining to the Hurricane and Storm cycle within the Rainy Season which goes like this

June too soon
July stand-by
August come what may
September remember
October all over

So in fact the Poui acts as a season change signalling the coming of and ushering out the Rainy Season.

Gillena Cox

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Read more about the

Pink Poui, Pink Tecoma, Rosy Trumpet Tree (Tabebuia rosea)

http://davesgarden.com/pdb/go/54474///
http://ctfs.si.edu/webatlas/english/tab1ro.html
http://plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/plant_profile.cgi?symbol=TARO#guides

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Pictures

Pink Poui...Genus Species : Tabebuia rosa
Look at this huge picture here:
http://www.ttcsweb.org/photos/poui_hollow.jpg
http://www.planetware.com/photos/TRI/TRI004.HTM

Yellow Poui...Genus Species : Tabebuia serratifolia


© Wikipedia : Tabebuia

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Things found on the way

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HAIKU

blossom fall
pink poui
at my feet
gillena 2003


poui blossoms fall
I am torn between looking
up and down
gilllena 2003


morning sun
at the center
of the pink poui
a spot of yellow
gillena 2003

on the mountain
no golden poui blossoms
but today rain

gillena cox 2002
(also appearing at WHReviewVol.2 No. 2)

http://mongst.8k.com/

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Related words

***** trumpet tree, golden yellow trumpet tree Tabebuia chrysantha
India

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