Flowering trees
Blossom and bloom overhead: cherry, jacaranda, magnolia, gulmohar.
Plumeria
Fragrant tropical tree with waxy, five-petaled flowers in many colours
🇲🇽 Mexico and 6 more · Flowering tree
TrochetiaBoucle d'Oreille
Rare bell-shaped flowers from the Mascarene Islands, with coloured nectar
🇲🇺 Mauritius · Wildflower
Pink trumpet-treeTabebuia rosea
A tall tree with pink to purple trumpet-shaped flowers, seen in parks and streets
🇲🇽 Mexico and 5 more · Flowering tree
Camellia reticulata
Tall pink-flowered camellia from Yunnan, grown for gardens and tea oil
🇨🇳 China · Flowering tree
Franklin treeFranklinia alatamaha
A rare flowering tree once native to Georgia, now extinct in the wild
🇺🇸 United States · Flowering tree
Pacific dogwoodCornus nuttallii
White-bracted tree native to the forests of western North America
🇺🇸 United States · Flowering tree
MagaThespesia grandiflora
Puerto Rico’s national flower, a red or pink five-petalled tree bloom
🇵🇷 Puerto Rico and 2 more · Flowering tree
Camellia amplexicaulisHải đường
A pink-flowered camellia tree once found in Vietnam’s forests
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Flowering tree
Guettarda speciosa
A coastal shrub with fragrant white flowers found on tropical beaches
🇦🇺 Australia and 5 more · Wildflower
Spanish cherryMimusops elengi
A fragrant evergreen tree with cream flowers and edible fruit
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Flowering tree
Strawberry-treeArbutus unedo
An evergreen Mediterranean tree with white bell flowers and red, strawberry-like fruit
🇮🇹 Italy and 7 more · Flowering tree
Brugmansia
Tropical South American shrub with large, trumpet-shaped, fragrant flowers
Brugmansia · Garden flower
Geiger treeCordia sebestena
A tropical tree with bright orange-red flowers and rough, dark green leaves
🇨🇺 Cuba and 3 more · Flowering tree
Crape myrtleLagerstroemia indica
A summer-flowering tree with crinkled blooms in white, pink, purple or red
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Flowering tree
Purple glory treePleroma granulosum
A tropical tree with purple flowers from Brazil and Bolivia
🇧🇷 Brazil and 1 more · Flowering tree
Protea roupelliae
A small tree or shrub from southern Africa with striking flower heads
🇿🇦 South Africa and 1 more · Wildflower
Wild Himalayan CherryPrunus cerasoides
A cherry tree with pinkish white blossoms from the Himalayas and Southeast Asia
🇮🇳 India and 5 more · Flowering tree
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Plumeria: Renesis, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pink trumpet-tree: José David Villalobos Robles, CC BY 3.0, source
- Camellia reticulata: BernardM, Public domain, source
- Franklin tree: Francine Riez, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pacific dogwood: Walter Siegmund, CC BY 2.5, source
- Maga: Jose Oquendo, CC BY 2.0, source
- Camellia amplexicaulis: Hungda, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Guettarda speciosa: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Spanish cherry: Wibowo Djatmiko ( Wie146 ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Strawberry-tree: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Brugmansia: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Geiger tree: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, source
- Crape myrtle: Gabriel Collares, CC BY 4.0, source
- Purple glory tree: Mauroguanandi, Public domain, source
- Protea roupelliae: Dwergenpaartje, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Wild Himalayan Cherry: Patcharapapats, CC BY-SA 4.0, source