Homalium grandiflorum flowering once in about 20 years

Glorious flowering 

decks the heights of heaven

Like a bridal bouquet round and sweet

You fill my heart with gladness!

I hold you 

in my hand

And you hold me 

in Time.

A flowering

for my Being

And a happiness

forever.

You are my home

my earth

my forest

my love.

You are my tree

my wisdom

my strength

my own forgiveness.

You are my everything

my reason

for being

A joy untold.

I am blessed

Truly blessed

Ten thousand fold

and more.

Wayside Trees of Malaya: Flowering and Leafing (Page 37, Volume 1)

'There was, for instance, a forest-tree (Homalium grandiflorum) in Singapore Botanic Gardens which changed its leaves roughly once a year but which flowered only at very long intervals of some 20 years, and the Lanjut (Mangifera lagenifera) ia almost as tardy...' - E.J.H. Corner

This is a truly magnificent forest giant standing at least 35m tall (about 2m girth) observed flowering 5 July 2014. I am indeed blessed to be in the presence of her company and her rare flowering! This year also records a masting of the Dipterocarps too!