Flowering trees
Blossom and bloom overhead: cherry, jacaranda, magnolia, gulmohar.
Camellia
Evergreen shrubs and trees with showy blooms, best known for tea and garden flowers
🇨🇳 China and 6 more · Garden flower
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
Campbell's MagnoliaMagnolia campbellii
A Himalayan tree with large pink or white flowers blooming before the leaves
🇨🇳 China and 3 more · Flowering tree
MagaThespesia grandiflora
Puerto Rico’s national flower, a red or pink five-petalled tree bloom
🇵🇷 Puerto Rico and 2 more · Flowering tree
Satsuma mandarinCitrus unshiu
A sweet, easy-peeling citrus fruit grown in Japan, China, and beyond
🇯🇵 Japan and 5 more · Flowering tree
Camellia amplexicaulisHải đường
A pink-flowered camellia tree once found in Vietnam’s forests
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Flowering tree
Zimbabwe AloeAloe excelsa
A tall, single-stemmed aloe from southern Africa with a crown of curved leaves
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe and 4 more · Flowering tree
Impala lilyAdenium multiflorum
A winter-flowering succulent tree of southern Africa with a poisonous milky sap
Adenium multiflorum · Cactus or succulent
Geiger treeCordia sebestena
A tropical tree with bright orange-red flowers and rough, dark green leaves
🇨🇺 Cuba and 3 more · Flowering tree
Hong Kong orchid treeBauhinia × blakeana
A purple-flowered tree, emblem of Hong Kong, grown for its showy blooms
🇭🇰 Hong Kong and 1 more · Flowering tree
Pink trumpet treeHandroanthus impetiginosus
A tall South American tree with pink trumpet-shaped flowers
🇵🇾 Paraguay and 4 more · Flowering tree
Cherry blossomPrunus subgenus Cerasus
The spring-blooming flower of ornamental cherry trees, central to Japan’s hanami custom
🇯🇵 Japan and 2 more · Flowering tree
Protea roupelliae
A small tree or shrub from southern Africa with striking flower heads
🇿🇦 South Africa and 1 more · Wildflower
Prunus mume
The fragrant plum blossom tree that blooms in winter across East Asia
🇨🇳 China and 3 more · Flowering tree
KumquatCitrus japonica
A small citrus tree from China with edible, sweet-sour orange fruits
🇨🇳 China and 2 more · Flowering tree
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Prunus mume: Kakidai, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pink trumpet-tree: José David Villalobos Robles, CC BY 3.0, source
- Campbell's Magnolia: Mfield , Matthew Field, http://www.photography.mattfield.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Camellia: junichiro aoyama, CC BY 2.0, source
- Maga: Jose Oquendo, CC BY 2.0, source
- Satsuma mandarin: Batholith, Public domain, source
- Camellia amplexicaulis: Hungda, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Zimbabwe Aloe: Ton Rulkens, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Impala lily: Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Geiger tree: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, source
- Hong Kong orchid tree: Ianare, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pink trumpet tree: Giles Laurent, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Cherry blossom: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Protea roupelliae: Dwergenpaartje, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kumquat: Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0, source