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Autumn in Hanoi begins when people can feel the
smell of Hoa Sua (that means milk flowers) in the
streets at cool nights and it lasts from
September to November before getting cold
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The fragrant milkflower tree (Alstonia scholaris)
has become an unforgettable characteristic of
autumn in Ha Noi. The flower became more widely
known in 1978 after a song named Hoa Sua
(Milkflower) written by composer Hong Dang became
a favourite
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Alstonia scholaris, commonly called blackboard
tree or devil's tree in English, is an evergreen
tropical tree
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Alstonia scholaris is native to southern China,
tropical Asia and Australasia
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Alstonia scholaris is a glabrous tree and grows
up to 40 m (130 ft) tall
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Blackboard Tree Flowers (Hoa Sua) Alstonia
scholaris Arrangement of leaves
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Flowers bloom in the month October. The flowers
are very fragrant similar to the flower of
Cestrum nocturnum
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The botanical name is Alstonia scholaris or Echite
s scholaris or Pala scholaris.  The tree has got
its generic name from the renowned 18th century
botanist, Prof. C. Alston of Edinburgh University
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The specific name scholaris is derived from the
traditional use of the wood for slates or school
boards in Myanmar
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Alstonia scholaris is the state tree of West
Bengal, India. During Convocation the leaves of
Alstonia scholaris (Saptaparni) are awarded to
graduates and postgraduates and scholars of
Visva-Bharati University by Chancellor who in
turn always the Prime Minister of India (though
to prevent excessive damage to environment in
recent years Vice Chancellor of university on
behalf of all students accept one Saptaparni from
Chancellor) this tradition signifies the name of
the plant. This Tradition was initiated by the
founder of the University Gurudeb Rabindranath
Tagore
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Blackboard tree flowers has become an
indispensable part in Hanois autumn
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Blackboard Tree Flowers flourish in September and
October so its the signal of autumn in Vietnam.
This type of flower is planted in many places but
it has become a symbol for Hanois autumn
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The white clusters of flowers look like the tiny
white lanterns hidden behind the greenish foliage
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Its mature bark is grayish and its young branches
are copiously marked with lenticels
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These flower blooms spread the intensively sweet
scent into small alleys and streets of the
capital.
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When autumn comes, Hanoi is passionate with
Alstonia scholaris. Streets and lanes are full of
white flowers, raising feelings in peoples
hearts. The flower has gone into poems, arts and
into music, as an attractive lover in songs by
composer, Trinh Cong Son
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The tree is highly medicinal and is immensely
valuable from Ayurvedic point of view. It
is Anticancer, Antimicrobicidal, analgesic,
febrifuge, stimulant, Antimalarial, antiamoebic,
antidiarrheal, antihypertensive, 
hepato-protective, immune-modulatory,
anti-asthmatic, anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory,
anti-fertility, anti-diabetic, Anti-pyretic and
cardiotonic
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Alstonia scholaris fruits
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Seeds of Alstonia scholaris are oblong, with
ciliated margins, and ends with tufts of hairs
1.52 cm
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Seeds of Alstonia scholaris
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Text and pictures Internet All copyrights belong
to their respective owners Presentation Sanda
Foisoreanu
2021
Sound Hoa Sua - Thanh Lam
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Vietnam (sometimes written as Viet Nam),
officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is
located at the eastern edge of the Indochinese
Peninsula, and is divided into 58 provinces and
five municipalities, covering 331,699 square
kilometres, with a population of over 96 million
inhabitants, making it the world's sixteenth-most
populous country. Vietnam is a unitary Marxist-Len
inist one-party socialist republic, one of the
two communist states (the other being Laos)
in Southeast Asia
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