Shower Tree

A l o h a !

 click on these bonnie pictures:

Honolulu adopted the rainbow shower tree

as our official tree in 1965.

This one is white, or cream. 

"If you would know strength

and patience, 

welcome the company of trees."

Hal Borland

April to November 

floral explosions 

fill our sky with GLORY!

"To heal mine aching moods,
Give me God's virgin woods."

Clinton Scollard

 

The Rainbow Variety

"Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees
Bending to counterfeit a breeze."

James R. Russell

The rainbow shower tree (Cassia x nealiae) 

is a hybrid cross between the golden shower (C. fistula) 

and the pink and white shower (C. javanica).

  Due to plant-genetics, no two trees are alike.

"I hear the wind among the trees
Playing the celestial symphonies;
I see the branches downward bent,
Like keys of some great instrument."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Honolulu's "official" rainbow shower is the Wilhelmina Tenney. The tree started life in 1920 as a seedling on Lunalilo Street in our Makiki neighborhood by neighbors of the Tenney family. After the tree was propagated, a Tenney daughter, Wilhelmina (1891-1951) gave material to Foster Garden.

 

 

 

 

“Like branches on a tree

we grow in different directions,

yet our roots remain as one.

Each of our lives will always

be a special part of the other.” 

Anonymous

 

 Such litter, glitters!

"As the poet said, 'only God can make a tree' -

probably because it's so hard to figure out

how to get the bark on."

Woody Allen

 

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The shower tree is a flower tree,

her boughs bearing

bounteous bouquets- 

it quite bedazzles!

 

Kindly leave a word blossom

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