Prepare the costumes and crafts, it’s time to say: Welcome, spring! After the cold that made us yearn for our beds during the day, the intense color of yellow flower from tree ‘Tabebuia donnell-smithii’, which has flooded the streets of western Mexico, announced that the hottest season of the year is just around the corner.

With average height 30 meters high and a leafy crown bordered by gold, this exotic species better known as the ‘spring tree’, has much to be desired. It only grows in nine of 32 states. The shadow stretches Nayarit, Michoacan, Colima and Jalisco, flashing with its leaves along the main road

Although it is not uncommon to appreciate its yellow flowers that grow in clusters and bell-shaped in countries like Oaxaca, Chiapas, Campeche, Tabasco and Quintana Roo. As expected, the spring tree is part of the region’s tourist attractions, attracting hundreds of people to spend hours contemplating it or trying to take the best photos, of course, to show it off on the ‘face’.

They can reduce global warming

For all who want to admire its beauty in person and in full color, grab your bags because this is the best time. So, achieve flowering maximum at the beginning March and April, hence it is known as the spring tree. Although for some it may be more fun waiting for autumn and jumping among the sea of ​​flowers that are released every day.

Best of all, this unique tree can serve as a tool to reduce global warming. And that, in addition to its straight trunks are used to make fine furniture, moldings in country construction as well as fences and firewood. According to a study, it has a high pollination rate and a fairly large level of texture that can be used for reforestation, especially in tropical forests. The best, is one of the few remaining trees no it was found risky both under SEMARNAT and under IUCN.

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And if we take this into account that a study conducted by scientists at the University of Leeds in the UK, found that South America House most trees that have not been discovered or classified by science, we still have hope. In other words, the researchers reveal that out of nearly nine thousand ‘unknown’ trees, almost half are found in this region, where 43% of all trees on Earth are found.

Although this unique tree with yellow flowers may arouse the envy of one nature lover or another disgruntled with the majesty of jacaranda, bougainvillea and tabachines, the truth is that they confirm the richness of our diversity and of course, that the heat during the spring of 2022, will be heavy… partly huge for the felling of 20 thousand trees that were cut down for nothing in the middle of the Maya Train project.