This Silk Cotton Tree is approximately 150 years old and provided shade to the residents of the Home. What should have been a simple tree trimming exercise turned out to be a catastrophe.

one will come across a stand of three silk cotton trees, pointing to their preferred status in the past as avenue trees. Now, they live unseen and are usually ignored except when they put out ...

At every nook and corner of the city, there lies a majestic tall dry deciduous tree popularly called the Semal (also called the silk cotton tree ... as a perch to call out to mates.