Skipjack Joe
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Flame Tree
Mi favorito. This one was near Manfred's RV park.
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Mexitron
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Delonix regia--one of the most beautiful trees on the planet. Where's Manfred's RV Park?
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elgatoloco
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Nice tree!
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Skipjack Joe
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mexitron
Delonix regia--one of the most beautiful trees on the planet. Where's Manfred's RV Park? |
Ciudad Constitucion. It's on your left when you come in to town from the north.
The tree seems to get rarer as you travel north on the peninsula. I have seen a couple as far north as San Diego. It's quite common in southern
Mexico. I remember seeing lots of them in the Yucatan. Bajajudy said they're from the Bahamas originally.
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Natalie Ann
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I love those trees, too - beautiful! Thanks so much for reminding me, Skipjack.
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.....Oscar Wilde
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Ohh, I must agree, what a beauty of a brilliant tree. I swear, sometimes ya'll with your pictures bring me back to Baja even when I am already here.
Thanks alot for the charge. Saludos, Sara
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oladulce
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"Tabuch?n" in Mexico, and "Malinche" in Nicaragua.
They're one of my favorites too. I've been successful at propagating a bunch of them from the seeds, but the trees get finicky when about 10" tall and
will need lots of heat and good drainage to get past this stage.
This is the method I use:
Remove seeds from a pod and lightly sand with sandpaper. Soak in water until plump but not soggy (overnight-24 hrs). Place seeds in sandy soil, water
regularly, and maintain warm temperature.
The seeds will stay dormant for years and I was told that by roughing up the coat, you're simulating the seed being rolled down a dry arroyo at the
start of monsoon season before it receives the soaking rain.
A Tabuch?n won't flower until the tree is more than 5 years old. Mine are over 8 years old and I've yet to see a bloom.They'll loose all their leaves
during cold and windy winters due to our lower peninsula, Pacific location.
I saw some neglected- looking trees 1/3 the size of mine in Loreto recently that were loaded with blooms which confirmed that location (warm) is
everything to a Tabuch?n.
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Mexitron
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I've seen the Delonix growing well up until Vizcaino going north on Mex 1...I started some from seed a few years ago, planted a couple in Borrego
Springs. They seem to tolerate the mid twenty winter temps okay and love the summer blast furnace. My old Tropica plant book places their origin in
Madagascar. Makes sense--that place is a wonderland of plants like Baja.
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