While several parts of North India and other surrounding areas have been battling with a chilly winter season, it is the season of pink in Bengaluru. The city is blooming with an exotic species of flowers. They’re in parks and dotting the roads with their beautiful pink hue.
Commonly mistaken and resembling the famous cherry blossom flowers, Bengaluru is shrouded in the glory of Tabebuia avellanedae and Tabebuia rosea. The tech city’s pink landscape kicks off in December and goes on until March. Several pictures shared by Bengaluru residents have surfaced online, especially on X.
How did Bengaluru get the pink flowers?
The pink blossoms, also called pink trumpet flowers, were brought to India by the British. It is said that the colonists missed springtime back home in England and planted Tabebuia trees that are native to South America.
The flowers have unique trumpet-shaped petals with yellow throats. Social media users compared the sight to a painting.
“The trees were planted here by the horticulturists who were commissioned to enhance the green cover in Bengaluru. It is a combination of the efforts of the earlier rulers of Bengaluru including the British who allowed the flowers to bloom,” Kavya Chandra, a garden and plant expert, told Indian Express.
“British and German horticulturalists — like James Cameron, superintendent of Government Gardens in the late 19th century, or Gustav Krumbiegel, who took charge of horticulture in Bengaluru and planted trees across Lalbagh and many parts of the city, imported trees from colonial territories, botanical gardens and sites of botanical exploration across the world, Harini Nagendra, Research Centre at Azim Premji University told The Hindu.
The British rule ended but the pink blossoms endured. Furthermore, in the 1980s, SG Nenihal, an Indian forest official and noted horticulturist, planted them across the city. Not only that, Nenihal also planted over 15 lakh trees, including, bougainvillea, mango, jamun, and akash mallige.
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