On a sunny day in the end of May, I was planning to grasp a few shots of the charming Queen Crape Myrtle purple blossoms when fragrant yellow Albizzia Lebbeck fowers greeted me on the way.
The fluffy puff-like plush flower clusters sways happily in the breeze, with some impatient ones dancing off the tree and making a carpet of filaments, buds and stalks scattered round the tree ground.
Albizzia lebbeck has oval alternate bipinnate leaflets, with tiny oval glands at the base of the leaf petioles. This is a tree with bisexual flowers that clustered in groups of 2-3 capitulum in leaf axils, and a stalk under the flowers.
This tree has a funny English name, called ‘Woman’s tongue tree’, probably because of its long string of tongue-like pods hanging to the tree, and when the “da da” sound resulted from its mature dry seed colliding with each other inside the non-compartmental seed pods as the wind blows.
陽光燦爛的五月尾，本想找大葉紫薇拍拍她開始盛放的嫵媚紫花，卻不經意在途中遇見在合歡開了滿樹的淡黃色小花，迎著微風送來淡淡花香，粉撲似的花簇在枝頭上搖晃生姿，有的卻急不及待隨風飄舞，讓花絲花苞花梗散滿一地。
大葉合歡屬含羞草科，橢圓形小葉互生，二回羽狀複葉，葉柄基部有橢圓形腺體；她一樹長有兩性的花，圓形球頭狀花序2-3 個簇生於葉腋，花下有梗。
這樹有個有趣的英文名，叫’Woman’s tongue tree’(「長舌婦樹」)，不只是她在秋天時一串串掛在樹上的長長果莢像長舌，當風吹過莢果串時，更因其成熟變乾的種子在沒有分隔的果莢內互相碰撞發出「噠噠」聲。
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