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Offline leehongyi

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Are they ipe flowers?
« on: March 06, 2015, 02:04:52 pm »
It's spring now in south China. My wife and I took our 3years boy to a green field in an university last friday. We enjoyed the soft wind and the colours of peach flower and some yellow flower we havn't seen last years. I searched the web and found that they are similar to ipe flower. Here are the pics. Anyone could judge the exact name?







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Offline leehongyi

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Re: Are they ipe flowers?
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2015, 02:43:21 pm »
Wow, hard to add pics

Offline Pat B

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Re: Are they ipe flowers?
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2015, 03:07:09 pm »
Pics need to be 640x480 max
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes!    Pat Brennan  Brevard, NC

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Re: Are they ipe flowers?
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2015, 06:06:17 pm »
  I cannot confirm or deny it is ipe, but those are beautiful trees.

   I have been curious, and you might know...... what does a waxwood tree look like?  The internet is inconsistent.

  Ju nimen hau chwuntien!
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Offline leehongyi

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Re: Are they ipe flowers?
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2015, 08:44:33 pm »
  I cannot confirm or deny it is ipe, but those are beautiful trees.

   I have been curious, and you might know...... what does a waxwood tree look like?  The internet is inconsistent.

  Ju nimen hau chwuntien!

Thank you so much

Offline PatM

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Re: Are they ipe flowers?
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2015, 08:47:58 pm »
I'd be a bit skeptical about Ipe ending up in China. Doesn't really seem like a choice to end up there.

Offline leehongyi

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Re: Are they ipe flowers?
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2015, 09:42:51 pm »
I'd be a bit skeptical about Ipe ending up in China. Doesn't really seem like a choice to end up there.

The university imported kinds of plants these years so I think the yellow tree may be imported last year

Offline PatM

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Re: Are they ipe flowers?
« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2015, 09:46:34 pm »
They do look remarkably like some online pics. Get a close-up individual comparison.

Offline Springbuck

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Re: Are they ipe flowers?
« Reply #8 on: March 06, 2015, 10:01:10 pm »
Pretty tropical down there, Pat.  Mangoes and Lychees and what not south of Shang Hai.

Offline leehongyi

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Re: Are they ipe flowers?
« Reply #9 on: March 06, 2015, 10:11:38 pm »
They do look remarkably like some online pics. Get a close-up individual comparison.

The teacher told me the name in Chinese 黄花风铃 means yellow flower aeolian bells. In Baidu the chinese name also is Tabebuia chrysantha in latin.

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Re: Are they ipe flowers?
« Reply #10 on: March 06, 2015, 10:39:22 pm »
The  latin name is universal, it's Ipe.