Saigon in black star fruit season

Saigon in black star fruit season

When Saigon is preparing for the summer, all the streets in the center are dyed yellow by the black star flower petals fluttering the sidewalk.

In Ho Chi Minh City, black star is a popular urban tree species, grown in many central routes, parks to create shade, air filter. The roads such as Pasteur, Mac Dinh Chi, Dien Bien Phu, Pham Ngoc Thanh, Ho Con Rua, park April 30 ... are covered by the tall black star trees soared by French people.

Black Star tree (Scientific name Hopea Odorata) is native to India and is introduced and grown in many tropical countries. Plants usually flowers in March 2-3 and fruit in April-July.

The fruit has two wings, leaves are long and hairy, very young, light green, when the old brown to brown.

Like the dandelion, whenever the wind blows, the black star fruits fly in the wind to scatter everywhere to maintain the race. Thanks to the two wings, each black star fruit falls off very slowly and rotates before reaching the ground.

Around April, when the season, the black star trees follow the wind to fly the streets of Sai Gon create a sense of fun for everyone.

"For more than a month now, the black star fruit has been falling continuously, especially when there is strong winds. Every afternoon and early morning on the sidewalk of the road as dyed gold, "Cao Hong (sales) said.

On Huynh Thuc Khang Street (District 1), only after a large wind has swept a lot of black and yellow star fruit landed on the sidewalk, the road.

The students of Cao Thang Technical College drink coffee on the sidewalk, at the foot of thousands of black stars shed a whole road. "Noon afternoon I go out drinking water feel Saigon became more poetic when sipping coffee and watching the turn black wings whip slowly landing," Le Minh Thao (student) shared.

The black star fruit was falling so thickly that many people walked happily to take photos.

The girl is interested in black star fruit forming the heart.

"I go to drink milk tea with you happen to see the two sides of the road too often this kind of fruit, especially the two long wings when it was so flying it flying spinning eyes look very happy," Chau Tran Bao Tram (Ton Duc Thang University ) shared.

Each season flowers bloom, fruit fall, black star fruit is all over the place creating romantic feelings for Saigon but becomes the suffering of urban environmental workers.