Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dec 11, 2025 (AFP) - 'In her prime': Rare blooming of palm trees in Rio

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2025-12-12

An extraordinary botanical spectacle is drawing crowds in Rio de Janeiro: several talipot palm trees, planted more than six decades ago, are blooming for the first -- and last -- time in their lives. The trees, growing in Rio's Aterro do Flamengo park and the Botanical Garden, were planted in the 1960s by the legendary landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx. Now, some six decades later, these giants have reached the peak of their existence in the......

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