The Spastic Society

The recently held 4km walk/run organized by the Spastic Society took me to their campus in Indiranagar. A really green and serene place, full of many trees...

The wall inside had a beautiful painting..

Psuedo Palm Sunday - Travellers Tree

The tree i chose for today, thinking it to be a palm, turned out to be something else. Ravenala madagascariensis, commonly known as Traveller's Tree belongs not to the palm family (Arecaceae) but to the bird of paradise family (Strelitziaceae). The fact that it is also called the Traveller's palm offers some consolation - there must be others who have mistaken it for a palm for it to be named thus!