The Arrecife City Council has sent a press release in which it boasts of the "giant in bloom" on Manolo Millares street, one of the 298 flamboyant specimens located in the city.
"When passing through Manolo Millares street in Arrecife, the colorful and leafy giant in bloom, a flamboyant (Delonix Regia) from the Leguminosae family, catches the eye," the Council points out, noting that the Department of Parks and Gardens "aims to care for and maintain this type of tree so that it looks its best in summer."
A total of 298 specimens of this species are located in the municipality, "with different ages and states of conservation, this specimen at the exit of Arrecife being the largest (16 meters in diameter of the crown and around six meters in height at its extreme point) and undoubtedly the most spectacular and representative of the species in the city," the City Council highlights.
New plantations of this species
From the City Council they explain that in the months of February and March, within the replacement of street trees carried out in the municipality, the planting in replacement of trees of a total of 28 young trees of this species was carried out mainly in the streets around the Simón Bolívar Park.
In addition, in the remodeling project of the roundabouts of the Vía Medular and its surroundings, contemplated within the Plan of Actions to be executed by the concessionaire company CESPA (Ferrovial Servicios), the new planting of 23 units of young trees of this same species is planned, as well as 14 in the future remodeling of the Altavista II Park (Puerto Arrecife Industrial Estate).
