“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky,” said legendary writer Kahlil Gibran. One such tree which has stood the test of time and has etched its mark on history is the Amaltas tree. With ...

KARACHI: There it stands, tall and proud, standing out among all other trees in the summer, its delicate yellow flowers swaying in the gentle breeze. The Golden Shower Tree, or the Amaltas, as it is ...

Such a strange sight — the tree is clad in golden yellow flowers from top to bottom. But it is mid-July, a time of the year when sightings of these flowers become less frequent. The roadside amaltas ...

The Earth is ablaze with red, and the sky swoops down to encircle the flames with blue. The fire is the vivid flowering of the gulmohur and the blue, the bloom of the jacaranda, both heralding the ...

The more the sun beats down, the more these big, bold and beautiful bunch of Amaltas flowers brighten up; seemingly fighting back the scorching heat Lahore -- sultry, uncomfortable, with its brutal ...

ISLAMABAD, June 24: While it looks like raining fire in the dry and sizzling summer months, Amaltas is among the handful of trees and plants in the capital that bear flowers under the conditions when ...

Guess what kept me company during the COVID-19 lockdown? Gold! No, not the yellow metal that everyone wants to have, but something even more precious. A profusion of golden yellow flowers of an ...

The summer of sweltering discontent has come to north India. I hate the heat. And I don’t particularly care for either mangoes or lychees, which are the seasonal fruit of the north Indian summer. So ...