Late each winter, Bengaluru briefly transforms into an Indian Kyoto, as roads blush pink, office parks turn photogenic, and social media buzzes with claims of a local “cherry blossom” season. But the star of this spectacle is not cherry at all. It is Tabebuia rosea, the pink trumpet tree, a neotropical ornamental whose native range runs from Mexico to Ecuador. What seems like a harmless aesthetic win is, ecologically, far more complex. The history Bengaluru’s pink canopy is not new. Much of it can be traced back to the 1980s under forester S G Neginhal, who drove a major greening…
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Pitamber Kaushik is a journalist, columnist, writer, strategy consultant, and independent researcher currently based out of Bengaluru. His writings have appeared in over 400 publications across 80+ nations. He has previously written in Asia Times, Brussels Times, New Humanist, International Policy Digest, The Hindu, Euroscientist, TerraGreen, Science Reporter, and Mongabay, among numerous other publications.