City of trees by TheWanderingCamel
Buenos Aires' streets, plazas and parks are full of beautiful trees. They provide cool shade on the hottest of days and a lovely play of dappled light on busy pavements. Their leaves and branches frame the stunning architecture, creating gorgeous photo opportunities Avenues are lined with shady sycamores so lush they can almost hide the buildings.
November sees blue clouds of jacaranda everywhere. Look out too for the flaming ceibo at that time - it's Argentina's national tree.
Monster "gommeros" at Recoleta - their branches speading so far they need props to support them
And what are those stange bottle-shaped trees we saw in San Telmo? Does anybody out there know?
Exotic pines, monkey puzzles from Patagonia, acacias, lime-green-leaved robinias - someone should publish a guide
