Male Nectar Bird on a Coral tree: The tree original from South America, which usually found along riversides and in swampy grounds. It prefers sheltered enviroments with adequate sunlight, not suitable for planting at exposed areas. It possesses prickly and trifliate leaves. Thed leaflets are broadly lanceolate in shape, with red midribs. It flowers in March, before the new leaves expand. The flowers are crimson in colour, which bome at the ends of the branches as a tightly clustered spearhead. The red ivory shaped flowers growing on a bare leafless tree. Tai Po Kau Reserve a diffent "world" in Hong Kong. After taken this picture I almost steped on a Cobra, only 20 cm from my leg. Showing me the sign on the neck, it moved slowly through the grass and leaves into the valley.