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Other economically valuable timber species in the Caribbean Islands include walnut (Juglans jamaicensis, VU), West Indian ebony (Brya ebenus), and poui (Tabebuia heterophylla).
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"I imagined that The Healer feasts on the poui flowers feverishly, and in the frenzy many of the flowers fall off," he has said.
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Ofili calls this figure The Healer, and imagines it gorging itself on the blossoms of the yellow poui tree, which flower in Trinidad with intense vividness and fall overnight.
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Camacho was heading east, the other car was heading west, and police say its driver, Kern Pierre, lost control of the car which jumped the median, knocked over a poui tree and collided with Camacho's car near Savannah Drive, Trincity.
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"I imagined that The Healer feasts on the poui flowers feverishly, and in the frenzy many of the flowers fall off," he has said.
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Along the bye pass several attractive yellow and purple poui trees that were planted by the Bye Pass Beautification committee, headed by Tyronne Samlalsingh were also cut down.
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I pointed out the poui trees, their branches full of yellow flowers.
Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk 2009
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A kindling va poui: might as fbon Riie fronkthe oogs and mate the moon ..
THOUGHTS IN PROSE AND VERSE ON NATURAL, MORAL, AND DIVINE SUBJECTS 1789
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"Un evenement bien triste decide mesdemoiselles vas filles a retourner brusquement en Angleterre, ce depart qui nous afflige beaucoup a cependant ma complete approbation; il est bien naturel qu'elles cherchent a vous consoler de ce que le ciel vient de vous oter, on se serrant autour de vous, poui mieux vous faire apprecier ce que le ciel vous a donne et ce qu'il vous laisse encore.
Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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"I find myself tiptoeing around dying poui blossoms.
Global Voices Online 2009
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