« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2011, 02:18:52 PM »
Yes - Delonix regia.
They are planted here and there in Cyprus, but do best at lower altitudes.
I look on it as a good shade tree, but I have only a seedling - so I can't speak from first hand experience re sitting underneath one (maybe it gets aphids / drops sticky honeydew; maybe the fallen leaves/flowers cause a mess; etc.)
Here's one in Coral Bay, though not showing its flowers to the full.
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Mike
Geologist by Uni training, IT consultant, Referee for Viola for Botanical Society of the British Isles, commissioned author and photographer on Viola for RHS (Enc. of Perennials, The Garden, The Plantsman).
I garden near Polis, Cyprus, 100m alt., on marl, but have gardened mainly in S.England
