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Aptly called the Sorrowless Tree (Ashoka or Saraca indica), its brilliant clusters of flowers are breathtakingly beautiful and will compel you to get closer and take a look. Whenever this row of trees are in bloom along a neighbourhood park connector, as they are now, I will surely stop to gaze at them on my walk. The clusters of blooms appear directly on the trunk and main branches instead of on the stems. They open an initial yellow, then turn orange, red and scarlet in a burst and are fragran