Excuse me, what are some trees with clusters of purple flowers on the green belt of Xiamen Street recently? It is not a bauhinia tree, nor a beautiful tree. Yes.

Platycladus orientalis of Osmundaceae.

Origin: Mexico, Central America and South America.

Morphological characteristics:

Plant shape: deciduous shrub or small tree, 3-12m high; Bark gray, scaly cracking, branchlets hairy.

Leaves: palmately compound leaves, opposite, ovate, acuminate, hairy, with serrated edges and long petioles.

Flowers: Panicle terminal, corolla funnel-shaped, also like wind chimes. When it blooms, sparse branches and leaves are matched with dense and beautiful campanula-shaped yellow flowers, which are bright and dazzling, forming a bright magenta sea of flowers, which is particularly beautiful and charming; Flowering in March-April.