[KP.071] m’boma

This is an ornamental foreign tree, called m’boma (government tree) probably because it was planted around government offices. In English it is ‘flamboyant’, ‘flame tree’, or ‘royal poinciana’. It has wide-spreading branches and bright red flowers. There is one of these trees in centre of the lawn outside the Library, a row of them down the road between the petrol station and the CCAP church, and about 15 of them round house 37!