I didn't come to Scotland looking for trees, but couldn't help noticing some spectacular specimens here around Dunkeld in Perthshire.

The first one is called the Birnum Oak, and is said to be tha last remaining tree from the famous Birnum Wood described in Shakespeare's Macbeth - thought to be 5-600 years old.

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Not far away is what is billed as the tallest tree in UK - a 65 metre Douglas Fir. Couldn't get a picture of this but there were many similarly tall ones close by, including this one split into three parallel trunks

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So there is hope for Lamma Forest - the essential ingredient seems to be Time.

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Continuing the tree blog - this time from Hawaii - the University of Hawaii at Manoa has a campus which - like most of Hawaii - is full of attractive flowering trees including imported species from all over the world. Here are a few I managed to snap.

The spectacular "rainbow shower" is Honolulu's "Official tree" (I'm not sure what exactly it's oficial duties are). This is a Cassia hybrid between the yellow and pink-and-white species, giving a cross strain which flowers profusely and doesn't have any seed pods.

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Also common around Honolulu are banyan trees - the same species as the Chinese banyans growing around Hong Kong (Ficus microcarpa) but they look slightly different. One of the best known has rooted stems around the stalls in the International Market Place in Waikiki

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One of the most unusual trees on the UH campus is an import from Africa called the "Dead Rat Tree" - this is a giant baobab

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Its name comes from the fruits hanging down, which from a distance look like dead rats.

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All over the island are flowers - the favorite for girls to wear in the hair is the Hibiscus, and there are strains of all colous and sizes growing around the city

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sorry, but can't see any pics.

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Wherever Grand Canyon is

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Alexanku's two pics titled "tree at Grand Canyon" can safely be assumed to be at the Grand Canyon. How about the previous landscapes?

Nope, sorry, try again. 50-50 or ask the audience?

Tour photos remind me of my trip through Southern California, long ago, from LA to Phoenix, travelling over the state border into Arizona.

I'll say California! What did I win?

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Nope it's Mexico.
The blue trash can has got an "immigration denied" stamp on it.

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As promised, "wiederfuhren" the treeblog. One from the still winter landcape of Germany (Giessen, Hessen). It's already April, but it's still very cold over there.