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The saga of a lovely Saga tree

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Saga tree (Adenanthera pavonina) is one of the top popular trees in Singapore.  By saying that, we wish to imagine its presence but sometimes without even knowing its existence.

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The Saga tree is hardy and fast growing species.  It can grow like a giant in 15-20m tall and widely spread out to provide shade and like a welcoming kind father.

Bu courtesy of wildshores.blogspot.com

Bu courtesy of wildshores.blogspot.com

The fruits pods of this tree contain scarlet seeds, each of the 4 seeds make up 1 gram.  In the past, it is widely used on gold and silver as a weight measurement.

By courtesy of kingyeungpohyin.blogspot.com

By courtesy of kingyeungpohyin.blogspot.com

The red seeds are a well-know love seeds among all warm and solicitude heart.  Some like to collect it and store it up in bottle for their love ones.  Some prefer to stitch it up forming a necklace and some place it to form a heart-shape.

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This Saga tree is located at Botanic gardens.  He treated his fern fans as his own family.  Surrounded with their friendship and love.  They lived together and share the wide blue sky.  Spreading love-seeds to passer-bys, it also naturalized through out Malaysia and Africa.  This is the core soul of Saga tree, the saga never fail to entice!

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Author: Sydney Fong

Hi, I am Sydney, a Singaporean. Making a living as an Architectural Illustrator, visionary. My blog entails categories of my interest, joy, upheaval of life and its destiny. Every post has its own characteristic. It conveys a story of its own, and the life of its owner.

26 thoughts on “The saga of a lovely Saga tree

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  3. Beautiful, Sydney. I love the bright red seeds.

  4. i thnk i can find this seed in indonesia too, but it became waste

  5. I used to collect the love seeds.. hehehe

  6. Very charming. My cottage is shrouded be old, giant dogwood trees. In the fall they release their red seeds and they play the sound of rain on my roof.

  7. the red seeds are as luminous as jewels! Are they edible, I wonder? And reminiscent of pomegranate pips, for sure…

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