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Cooktown Botanic Gardens and Gallop Botanic Reserve
Cooktown Orchid, State emblem of Queensland
Established in 1878 the Gallop Botanic Reserve encompases 62.3 Ha (154 acres) on the edge of Cooktown, Far North Queensland, Australia, and contains the Cooktown Botanic Gardens and walking trails to Finch Bay and Cherry Tree Bay.

Cooktown Botanic Gardens

Tuesday, 11 September 2012

Yellow Saraca. 

Yellow Saraca flowers in September
The exotic, Saraca thaipingensis, is in full bloom with astonishing golden yellow blooms above the foliage.  It is believed that Buddha was born under this sacred evergreen flowering tree, a tree with yellow flowers, borne on old wood,  grown as an ornamental for floral effect.
This plant is attractive to bees, butterflies and/or birds, the flowers are fragrant especially during the night. Long pendulous new growth emerges as soft pink leaves slowly stiffen to green. Flower heads are large, up to 45cm, and bright yellow, developing straight from the trunk. Long burgundy coloured pods follow these flowers.
This gorgeous tree should be fertilized at the drip line with an organic based product and heavily mulched twice a year, once before flowering in the spring and once again at the end of the wet season.

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