As a child seeking escape from Pondicherry’s heat, these flowering trees left a deep imprint on my mind. The tree-lined avenues, soothing canopies, and bursts of colour helped shape my early memories ...

In Tabebuia pulcherrima the egg cell assumes a lateral disposition and is slightly chalazal in relation to the synergids; consequently it does not establish direct contact with the micropylar channel.

The ovule of Tabebuia pulcherrima is anatropous, unitegmic and tenuinucellate. The nucellus shows a trizonate structural organization. The integument is initiated by periclinal divisions in the dermal ...