The Palm trees along the Alameda dos Oceanos (images on previous post) are Queen Palms - Syagrus romanzoffiana, syn. Arecastrum romanzoffianum, family Palmae.

The Queen Palm in blossom, mid October - Caldas da Rainha, Portugal.

[Portuguese post on April 10th, 2008]

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- A DAY OF CELEBRATIONS (this year, it was also the Good Friday) . . .

. . . The beginning of Spring (Northern Hemisphere).

Judas Tree (Cercis siliquastrum, Leguminosae family) - Cascais, Portugal.

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. . . The Arbor Day in Portugal (different countries, different days).

Native woodland of Portuguese Oak (Quercus faginea, Fagaceae family) in the Arrabida Natural Park (Parque Natural da Arrábida) - Sesimbra, Portugal.

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Umbrella pine (Pinus pinea, family Pinaceae) in the King's Pine Forest (Pinhal do Rei or Mata Nacional dos Medos), Natural Reserve of the Fossil Cliff of Costa da Caparica (Reserva Natural da Arriba Fóssil da Costa da Caparica) - Almada, Portugal.

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There are many people showing up on this day to speak and care for the trees. But the rest of the year long, in towns and cities of Portugal, many more people constantly claim and act against the trees - because they hide the views, or because they house birds and the cars underneath get all dirty, or because their leaves drop down during Autumn, or because ...
And so, in Portugal, because of these serious drawbacks, the trees are convicted... and executed, even when they are in blossom!

The remains of the war, in the municipality of Cascais - Portugal.

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. . . The World Poetry Day (declared by UNESCO in 1999).

A beautiful big Cedar (Cedrus sp, Pinaceae family) in La Granje Park - Geneva, Switzerland.

To be great, be whole: nothing
from you exaggerate or exclude.
Be all in everything. Put as much as you are
in the very least you do.
Thus in every lake the moon all
shines, because she high lives.

Ricardo Reis, Odes (first published in 1933), translated from Portuguese.
Ricardo Reis is one of Fernando Pessoa's heteronyms.

[Portuguese post on Mar 21st, 2008]

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- also known as the Marubakaido Apple Tree.

Blooming Malus prunifolia, Rosaceae Family - mid Abril at Quinta das Lágrimas - Coimbra, Portugal.
Cf. Jorge Paiva et M. Lúcia Catarino, O Arboreto da Quinta das Lágrimas (Quinta das Lágrimas' Arboretum).

[Portuguese post on Mar 7th, 2008]

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... are the most beautiful, the most immediate of analogies.
[...] to rise like them, from the multiple roots to the unity of the trunk and from the unity of the trunk to the diversity of the branches stretched to all directions in space.
Jean Prieur, Les Témoins de l'Invisible (Testimonies of the Invisible - translated from Portuguese).

A magnificent Purple European Beech (Fagus sylvatica Atropunicea, Fagaceae family) in the Leiden Hortus Botanicus - the Netherlands.
The trunk and the main branches had been all bandaged up in order to control their perspiration, because of a root's disease.

[Portuguese post on Feb 7th, 2008]

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The Narrowleaf Ash and the Almond Tree are already in blossom. Mid January - Cascais, Portugal.

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[Portuguese post on Jan 20th, 2008]

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- ASSOCIATED BUT NOT LIMITED.

Along the coastal central and southern lands of Portugal, Cork oaks [Quercus suber, Fagaceae family] and Pines [here the Maritime or Cluster pine - Pinus pinaster, Pinaceae family] are frequently found together. This is how the ground looks like underneath them. Palmela, Portugal.

[Portuguese post on Jan 17th, 2008]

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An enormous Umbrella pine - among the most beautiful ones I remember seeing.

Pinus pinea, family Pinaceae. The common name in Portuguese is Pinheiro Manso.

This particular tree is protected under the law (Diário da República nº 178/90), since August 3rd 1990.
The information panel is about to be absorbed by the trunk growth, and the tree will be seriously damaged if they don't fast move it away.

São João do Estoril - Cascais, Portugal.

[Portuguese post on Jan 4th, 2008]

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