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Description In our campus we've got many trees and when spring and summer come,it turns into a colorful spectacle of blooms. Here's one of the pics i took a few springs ago.These flowers are from a cockspur coral tree,which is our national flower (and also,Uruguay's one). 
Erythrina crista-galli,known as ceibo [it is pronunced "SAY-boh" ]in Southamerica is a species of flowering tree in the family Fabaceae,native to Argentina,Uruguay,Paraguay,southern Brazil and cultivated in other places f the world.
It lives in some ecosystems as swamps,wetlands and gallery forests.It's common seeing it planted in Parks for their red flowers.
Is a small tree which usually grows reaching  heights of 5-8 m (16-26 ft) and it flowers from October to April in their native land (southern hemisphere).Its taproots have nodules that contain symbiotic bacteria popullations,them help the tree obtaining some nutrients as nitrogen.
Taken around October-November  of 2018 with an IPhone 6 camera.
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