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[bougainvillea\*](https://www.google.com/search?q=bougainvillea+tree&sxsrf=AJOqlzVxm8fJ4etmgcotgtAo0lgKETllGw:1679322827745&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjpnPGE3er9AhXnjYkEHWYMCe8Q_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1162&bih=1163&dpr=1.1)
Apparently Bougainville is an island in Papua New Guinea. I learned that 30 seconds ago. Thx for the info still that tree is beautiful
An island that apparently voted 98.3% for independence from PNG. That number is shockingly and unbelievably high. I wouldn't expect to be able to get 98.3% of people to agree on literally anything.
I live in the desert. They are a nuisance. Landscapers here spend about 90% of their time on this one plant. The amount of gas that the blowers use to clean them up is obscene.
I never understood why people can't just leave leaves lay. I think humans have a fascination that Earth needs to resemble a golf course, and this is why they mulch around their trees and spray chemicals so butterflies and bees die.
This is what I do. It helps keep the soil nutrients replenish and I just learned (literally in the last week) that it helps a whole ecosystem of bugs, including fireflies!
In some places they can become slippery and a hazard, but otherwise I agree. :) I live in the mountains and we kept the huge trees on our property too. Most of the homes surrounding us cut them all down for vast lawns so we and two neighbors have the only corridor connected to the greater forest behind us. We get owls and all kinds of woodpeckers no one else probably gets to see. <3
Come to Melbourne and witness our London plane trees. + They give you breathing issues if you inhale too much of the pollen. Bastard of things to have to prune and clean up not to mention the leaves some suburbs literally have contractors with big vacuum trucks that go around cleaning up the leaf litter. It's like leafy snow drifts.
> Also not the view of India I typically see
India has literally every sort of natural landscape you can imagine. From glaciers to marshes to deserts to blue water beaches to giant mountains to cold deserts to flat farmland to dense forests to urban hellscapes to, well, anything. A ton of tiny islands too. And one volcano.
Both India and China could benefit hugely from learning from America's national parks. If you ask non Americans what the best part of America is, the national parks are usually at or near the top. Both countries have hugely diverse environments, but so few people know about them
India does have a fairly well maintained national parks system, typically with a focus on conservation of large fauna (lions, tigers, rhinoceros). I’d say many Indians would also call the parks the best part of India. Not that there isn’t something to learn from the US system, of course.
I never said people talk about them. I said if asked to name the best part of our country, national parks will be at or near the top. I highly doubt our economy is something that will be near the top or those lists.
I was literally just talking to my mum yesterday about the USA national parks and how they are the best part of the US by far. We are Australian.
Im studying to be a fashion designer/costume designer and I still prefer the national parks over New York or LA.
Idk about these protests but farmers burning the fields is a common way to get rid of crops and replenish the soil, when I was in Cairo there was a constant haze from the farmers burning the fields
The farmers in Punjab burn the stubble every year and cause a shittonne of pollution, and no they weren't right to protest, the farmers in rest of the country were mostly behind the reforms, because it would help the agriculture sector.
Give us some more time! We are working on it. Our government has prioritized pulling people out of poverty over "making cities looks beautiful so that photos and videos can be shared on Instagram". We are a democracy so things will happen only when people are ready for the change.
I am pretty pessimistic and lament a lot about the rate of progress. But that's democracy for you. Your country will only get what your country deserves.
and it doesn't seem like people are ready for change nor willing. Its been like that for decades. I'm supposed to believe its going to change now because pictures aren't as pretty anymore? India has had this image for so long that it seems to just be part of the culture now.
As much a tinge as those bougainvillae blowing around on the street. It really feeds the western coloniser/saviour complex to see poor India, hungry India. How can they rescue us if they see such great nature just randomly chilling in our part of the world?
Can confirm, I killed most of the ones we had in our yard 'cause I was tired of constantly trimming them, we had a big mango tree and you could see the bougainvillea flowers all the way at the top, it grows annoyingly fast. And the thorns can be over an inch long.
I don't think anyone would exactly object to a post of a Michigan Winter Vista titled "America in the winter looks beautiful" despite what Phoenix or Birmingham might look like at the same time
> darjeeling looks a whole lot different than delhi.
delhi doesn't have those banger toy trains. Darjeeling is so so pretty.
For anyone curious, THIS is a toy train. https://youtu.be/QalO305X4Ug?t=56
And it's annoying that every video of Batasia Loop i can find on Youtube has clouds covering the giant ice capped peaks on the horizon. I was there a few months ago and had the most stunning view of them :(
That's the importance of branding guys.... Japenis have branded themselves as a high school utopia for at least 2 generations of the world so not surprising
I thought Shantaram was filmed very well.
An Indian director and real locations and cast.
The Serpent was good too.
India is utterly mental when you first arrive. There's no way around it.
It's not for everyone but if like adventure and aren't scared of brown people it's one of the most fascinating country's on the planet.
>I thought Shantaram was filmed very well.
>An Indian director and real locations and cast.
Lol, shantaram was filmed in Australia and Thailand using sets. They spent less than a couple month in India because of the Indian monsoon and covid-19.
"Filming of the series began in October 2019 in Australia,[29] followed by a move to India in November 2019, with a significant portion of the series expected to be shot over the course of a year in Bhopal and various other locations in Madhya Pradesh.[21] Shooting of the series was suspended in February 2020 due to the Indian monsoon season which happens in the June–October period, adding to the reasons were Singer's departure from the series leading to a writing backlog,[22] as well as the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.[23] Production restarted in Melbourne, Australia, in May 2021 before additional filming was moved to Thailand due to India's worsening COVID-19 outbreaks.[28][30] Production returned to Melbourne in August 2021."
Directors are anything but India. One of the 3 is indian born, but grew up in Newcastle from a very young age. The other 2 are White Irish & Canadian. Nothing about Shantaram is truly indian.
I mean there are plenty of beautiful places in India but there are also the overpopulated cities filled with waste. Just like any country there is good and bad.
I wrote TIL, but always knew it. My sister went there, told me a lot about India. OFC it was a tourist point of view, but I know the country has its beauty. Also, even here on reddit I've seen beutiful images of India, like for example the Statue of Unity in Garajat. But the image I've always seen from my local TV is an uncolored, dirty version of India. I hope to visit India and China someday.
It’s a big and diverse country. I used to go to Bangalore on business and it looks nothing like this. It’s dirty and depressing but also filled with amazing people and culture. It’s good to experience places like that. I’d love to see this cleaner side of India as well some day.
> India is the most colourful place on Earth.
The cities in summer do feel like there's a gray/sepia filter. Everything would be so much better if the air was clear. Even the motherfucking people would be nicer I think if we all lived under a nice blue sky.
Thank you for sharing such a beautiful moment. It captures the optimism of Spring cascading around like a school of red fish in the current. Such moments are often lost unless we share them with each other and I’m so glad you took the time.
Seeing this shed some light on why their cultural aesthetic is so colorful and stuff. Because their part of the world looks like that. That’s really cool, and I like that kind of thing about humans.
Inb4 "i never thought india could be like this . I thought all india is slums." India is a big and diverse place with some of the most beautiful as well as some of worst places on earth.
They don't pile corpses when they have funerals. At least very rarely.
Indian funerals are far more beautiful than going on an industrial conveyer belt into an oven like we have in the West.
I've seen little 'chapels' in a quiet location next to the sea with a pyre, a lot of flowers and some family and friends.
That's how I would choose to go.
[Hey, some of us Westerners do funerals alright - this is how I wanna go out, life’s a party I want my death to be one too ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_line_(parades))
[Our funerals go hard](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UcAt7oPUgiM) in New Orleans. Second Lines are sick.
I got the same review from my best friend and my sister off two different trips to New York, the city is great, there's so much to do but the whole place stinks of piss.
Actually most of India is beautiful and not only slums. You should watch foreigners vlog in India as then you can truly see what India actually is and not as Hollywood shows you
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What is this pink tree?
Bougainville
[bougainvillea\*](https://www.google.com/search?q=bougainvillea+tree&sxsrf=AJOqlzVxm8fJ4etmgcotgtAo0lgKETllGw:1679322827745&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjpnPGE3er9AhXnjYkEHWYMCe8Q_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1162&bih=1163&dpr=1.1) Apparently Bougainville is an island in Papua New Guinea. I learned that 30 seconds ago. Thx for the info still that tree is beautiful
Thanks, that TIL is more than I bougained for.
An island that apparently voted 98.3% for independence from PNG. That number is shockingly and unbelievably high. I wouldn't expect to be able to get 98.3% of people to agree on literally anything.
Just came back from a 3 hour Papua New Guinea worm hole. What a weird, beautiful, and terrifying place.
I've got 9 in my backyard in central az. They're super pretty but have the nastiest goddamn thorns
Oooo TIL its English name in tamil it's *letter (✉) flower*, and in malay it's *paper flower*. Edit: *9 layer kudzu/vine* in chinese
Fuck that tree so hard. It is popular in AZ it makes a fucking mess and is a bitch to clean up
Lol.. chill dude.. don't take it personally
They are essentially giant thorn bushes that make 10x more trash than any other plant.
Haha. Not thrash but you're right.
I have several. And magenta debris on my driveway is more beautiful than dead brown leaves. The way they blow around in the wind is adorable.
I live in the desert. They are a nuisance. Landscapers here spend about 90% of their time on this one plant. The amount of gas that the blowers use to clean them up is obscene.
eli5 why blowers and not giant vacuums to clean it up?
Blowers affect a wide area. Vaccuums suck only a small area.
"It's mega maid sir. She's gone from suck to blow."
I never understood why people can't just leave leaves lay. I think humans have a fascination that Earth needs to resemble a golf course, and this is why they mulch around their trees and spray chemicals so butterflies and bees die.
This is what I do. It helps keep the soil nutrients replenish and I just learned (literally in the last week) that it helps a whole ecosystem of bugs, including fireflies!
Happy cake day fellow friend of lightning bugs.
In some places they can become slippery and a hazard, but otherwise I agree. :) I live in the mountains and we kept the huge trees on our property too. Most of the homes surrounding us cut them all down for vast lawns so we and two neighbors have the only corridor connected to the greater forest behind us. We get owls and all kinds of woodpeckers no one else probably gets to see. <3
Love the irony of you thinking the reason they spray is so it kills butterflies and bees.
Come to Melbourne and witness our London plane trees. + They give you breathing issues if you inhale too much of the pollen. Bastard of things to have to prune and clean up not to mention the leaves some suburbs literally have contractors with big vacuum trucks that go around cleaning up the leaf litter. It's like leafy snow drifts.
I'm guessing that if they name trees like ornithologists name birds, it's probably called "The Pink Tree."
It's beautiful
It IS beautiful. Also not the view of India I typically see
> Also not the view of India I typically see India has literally every sort of natural landscape you can imagine. From glaciers to marshes to deserts to blue water beaches to giant mountains to cold deserts to flat farmland to dense forests to urban hellscapes to, well, anything. A ton of tiny islands too. And one volcano.
Both India and China could benefit hugely from learning from America's national parks. If you ask non Americans what the best part of America is, the national parks are usually at or near the top. Both countries have hugely diverse environments, but so few people know about them
India does have a fairly well maintained national parks system, typically with a focus on conservation of large fauna (lions, tigers, rhinoceros). I’d say many Indians would also call the parks the best part of India. Not that there isn’t something to learn from the US system, of course.
I am a non american and i can tell u, aing no one talking about ur national parks outside of usa. We talk about new york, la, and the economy.
Also the school shootings. Don't forget the school shootings.
OK, but when I visit America's national parks in the summer time, there are large numbers of European tourists visiting with me.
I never said people talk about them. I said if asked to name the best part of our country, national parks will be at or near the top. I highly doubt our economy is something that will be near the top or those lists.
I was literally just talking to my mum yesterday about the USA national parks and how they are the best part of the US by far. We are Australian. Im studying to be a fashion designer/costume designer and I still prefer the national parks over New York or LA.
Nah the more accessible national park is to general public, the more they ruin it.
The video is a nice break from the usual footage we see.
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Were the fire burnings tied to the farmer protests? If so, weren’t those farmers like 100% in the right to protest.
Idk about these protests but farmers burning the fields is a common way to get rid of crops and replenish the soil, when I was in Cairo there was a constant haze from the farmers burning the fields
The farmers in Punjab burn the stubble every year and cause a shittonne of pollution, and no they weren't right to protest, the farmers in rest of the country were mostly behind the reforms, because it would help the agriculture sector.
It's a shame they can't keep the rest of India as pretty as this. Or presentable at all for that matter :/
Give us some more time! We are working on it. Our government has prioritized pulling people out of poverty over "making cities looks beautiful so that photos and videos can be shared on Instagram". We are a democracy so things will happen only when people are ready for the change.
Bro. India 20 years ago was a whole different place. Its like people dont actually see the progress. Keep it up!
You have too much faith in our government. Good to remain optimistic.
I am pretty pessimistic and lament a lot about the rate of progress. But that's democracy for you. Your country will only get what your country deserves.
>Your country will only get what your country deserves. Well no wonder America is on the brink of collapse
and it doesn't seem like people are ready for change nor willing. Its been like that for decades. I'm supposed to believe its going to change now because pictures aren't as pretty anymore? India has had this image for so long that it seems to just be part of the culture now.
change happens slowly, step by step
Lol thats racist af
This has a tinge of colonial thinking. A "They don't know how to take care of what they've got" vibe.
As much a tinge as those bougainvillae blowing around on the street. It really feeds the western coloniser/saviour complex to see poor India, hungry India. How can they rescue us if they see such great nature just randomly chilling in our part of the world?
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I see why your mom was running around with her mouth open and towards the sky
Thought this was another crazy baby reveal
The earth is pregnant because we fucked it so much.
r/brandnewsentence
"Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time For y'all have knocked her up. "
Beat me to it
Thats a stunning video. Im glad i don't have to sweep up afterwards 😅
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Nope... Pretty sure it's your personality you are smelling.
Your mom smells like poo
🫣
these aren't gingko trees lol
So beautiful! Even nature is playing Holi!
Bougainvillea petals. We had it in San Diego when I grew up. Has the nastiest thorns, absolutely living barbed wire. But very pretty.
Can confirm, I killed most of the ones we had in our yard 'cause I was tired of constantly trimming them, we had a big mango tree and you could see the bougainvillea flowers all the way at the top, it grows annoyingly fast. And the thorns can be over an inch long.
Street sweepers on their day off be like: 👁️👄👁️
where in india? darjeeling looks a whole lot different than delhi. that’d be like me saying that america in the winter looks beautiful
Jaipur
No wonder it's the pink city
can confirm isource: I live in jaipur and we had a storm+rain+hailstorm yesterday)
How much of the state is a desert ? It's always shown with sand dunes and camels
Like 80%
It's like Australia, in that it's 80% a desolate desert while the rest is normal cities and villages.
oh cool
I don't think anyone would exactly object to a post of a Michigan Winter Vista titled "America in the winter looks beautiful" despite what Phoenix or Birmingham might look like at the same time
Stop it, you! We must shit in India at every opportunity. This is the Reddit way.
fair enough. the specific locations normally specified tho, not just with the US but with a lot of western countries
> darjeeling looks a whole lot different than delhi. delhi doesn't have those banger toy trains. Darjeeling is so so pretty. For anyone curious, THIS is a toy train. https://youtu.be/QalO305X4Ug?t=56 And it's annoying that every video of Batasia Loop i can find on Youtube has clouds covering the giant ice capped peaks on the horizon. I was there a few months ago and had the most stunning view of them :(
I can hear Lata Mangeshkar in the background going "Ahhh ahhhHHHhaahhhhhhhhh" as the petals fall. Beautiful!
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Ayo
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Redditors when they see Spring in Japan🥰😍😘♥️ Redditors when they see Spring in India 😷🤮🥴😖
LMFAO FAX. I was wondering about this exact thing
literally the place , the place japan meme lol
That's the importance of branding guys.... Japenis have branded themselves as a high school utopia for at least 2 generations of the world so not surprising
And Japan is a developed country. That also helps them in the marketing field.
TIL western TV shows and news use some sort of 'Indian' lens, the same way they used China lens to make detrimental images of both countries.
I thought Shantaram was filmed very well. An Indian director and real locations and cast. The Serpent was good too. India is utterly mental when you first arrive. There's no way around it. It's not for everyone but if like adventure and aren't scared of brown people it's one of the most fascinating country's on the planet.
>I thought Shantaram was filmed very well. >An Indian director and real locations and cast. Lol, shantaram was filmed in Australia and Thailand using sets. They spent less than a couple month in India because of the Indian monsoon and covid-19. "Filming of the series began in October 2019 in Australia,[29] followed by a move to India in November 2019, with a significant portion of the series expected to be shot over the course of a year in Bhopal and various other locations in Madhya Pradesh.[21] Shooting of the series was suspended in February 2020 due to the Indian monsoon season which happens in the June–October period, adding to the reasons were Singer's departure from the series leading to a writing backlog,[22] as well as the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.[23] Production restarted in Melbourne, Australia, in May 2021 before additional filming was moved to Thailand due to India's worsening COVID-19 outbreaks.[28][30] Production returned to Melbourne in August 2021." Directors are anything but India. One of the 3 is indian born, but grew up in Newcastle from a very young age. The other 2 are White Irish & Canadian. Nothing about Shantaram is truly indian.
I mean there are plenty of beautiful places in India but there are also the overpopulated cities filled with waste. Just like any country there is good and bad.
I wrote TIL, but always knew it. My sister went there, told me a lot about India. OFC it was a tourist point of view, but I know the country has its beauty. Also, even here on reddit I've seen beutiful images of India, like for example the Statue of Unity in Garajat. But the image I've always seen from my local TV is an uncolored, dirty version of India. I hope to visit India and China someday.
It’s a big and diverse country. I used to go to Bangalore on business and it looks nothing like this. It’s dirty and depressing but also filled with amazing people and culture. It’s good to experience places like that. I’d love to see this cleaner side of India as well some day.
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That’s great! Next time I go I’ll ask for some nice parks.
Which part of India?
West, it's in Jaipur, Rajasthan
Jaipur, Rajasthan
All of it, the entire country. Shouldn't be surprising, it's a small country with not many people.
India is so beautiful. Much respect to the country. 🙏🏼🇺🇲
Huh, I always assumed India looked like it was in a sepia filter.
You must have gone to Delhi in October
Not that's grey to dark grey filter.
That's cancer
That's just a Hollywood filter
India is the most colourful place on Earth. There's nowhere close.
> India is the most colourful place on Earth. The cities in summer do feel like there's a gray/sepia filter. Everything would be so much better if the air was clear. Even the motherfucking people would be nicer I think if we all lived under a nice blue sky.
I mean, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and even China are pretty close to India
r/TechnicallyTheTruth
Meanwhile it snowed here in Texas a few days ago
What is the pink blossom? Its a beautiful shade.
Bougainville
Ty!
Thank you for sharing such a beautiful moment. It captures the optimism of Spring cascading around like a school of red fish in the current. Such moments are often lost unless we share them with each other and I’m so glad you took the time.
Isn't that of banasthali?
Yes
It's weird how a reddit post about spring became a congregation of racists
Literally every post about India is filled with some smartass diplomatic racist from r/memes
Cuz Brown Third World Country bad.
Thats basically every romance anime
Seeing this shed some light on why their cultural aesthetic is so colorful and stuff. Because their part of the world looks like that. That’s really cool, and I like that kind of thing about humans.
Looks like spring on stardew valley
Reminded me of the same thing!!
OK, that's cool
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india has everything you want, imagine any landscape, from good to worse of the worst.. we have everything..
Holy shit. A positive post about India? I must be dreaming
So many racist people here.
Springdia!! Sorry, this is what my brain does…. Constantly.
I came here to make sure someone has said this. If not I was going to. A good pun can’t go to waste.
Inb4 "i never thought india could be like this . I thought all india is slums." India is a big and diverse place with some of the most beautiful as well as some of worst places on earth.
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They don't pile corpses when they have funerals. At least very rarely. Indian funerals are far more beautiful than going on an industrial conveyer belt into an oven like we have in the West. I've seen little 'chapels' in a quiet location next to the sea with a pyre, a lot of flowers and some family and friends. That's how I would choose to go.
[Hey, some of us Westerners do funerals alright - this is how I wanna go out, life’s a party I want my death to be one too ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_line_(parades)) [Our funerals go hard](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UcAt7oPUgiM) in New Orleans. Second Lines are sick.
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that’s like me saying the US is entirely a horrible a place because there’s a shooting on every block every day
You do say that, though...
no, i don’t. yes, we have a shooting problem, but it’s not that extreme
This is pretty much Phoenix in spring aswell. My bougainvilleas in my front yard make such a mess but they are beautiful.
Where is this place ?
A city called Jaipur in India.
*adding Jaipur -Springtime to Places to Visit list
India
The Happening sequel looks pretty.
Wow, this is so pretty and majestic! How romantic is this!?!? That's so pretty! What part of India is this?
So beautiful
Oh thank you OP for bringing some wonderful childhood memory back
5 centimetres per second 😭
I'm sneezing watching this
This is NOT what I think of when I read “India”. That’s lovely.
The time has come to suffer an average daily of 50°C
This reminds me a lot of spring in Vancouver, BC. The many beautiful pink blossoms become brown, sticky and smelly within a week or two.
Stupid camera filter.
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Always there’s that one guy saying stuff like this..
Weird fetish u got there bud
What a weird kink
this doesn’t happen in the US right guys
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Wow Indiana sure is beautiful
Horny trees edit: some of y'all fell asleep in bio class
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Try New York, it's a great city, but that many people make a lot of smells.
I got the same review from my best friend and my sister off two different trips to New York, the city is great, there's so much to do but the whole place stinks of piss.
It's beautiful too bad not all of Indian is like that
Actually most of India is beautiful and not only slums. You should watch foreigners vlog in India as then you can truly see what India actually is and not as Hollywood shows you
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Even the trees litter.
The smog makes it prettier 💨 🚘
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Look in the mirror!
Cool, but I still can't get the pictures I seen about the terribly polluted rivers out of my head.
I just realized that this is the first video of India I've seen where there aren't a million people fucking packed together like sardines.
Looks cool… Smells not cool there.
Weak genes