Pitanga flowering time at Avenida Escola Politécnica on 22nd July 2020

Pitanga (Eugenia uniflora) is native to Brazil's Mata Atlântica, the rain forest which once covered most of coastal Brazil  now sadly diminished by deforestation.  It has been successfully transplanted, and can be found today in other parts of South America, in Africa, on the Portuguese island of Madeira and in the Caribbean, where it is generally known in English as Brazil Cherry, Suriname Cherry, or Cayenne Cherry. It is only distantly related to cherry botanically.

see more about pitangas at: https://flavorsofbrazil.blogspot.com/2010/02/pitanga-fruit-exotic-beauty.html?showComment=1595894822356#c7930334737440349408

Castanospermum australe (Moreton Bay chestnut or blackbean), the only species in the genus Castanospermum, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the east coast of Australia in Queensland and New South Wales, and to the Pacific islands of Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and the island of New Britain (Papua New Guinea).

Blackbean tree, native of Australia grows in Rio Pequeno. Read more about blackbean at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castanospermum

more pitanga tree with and orange tree I planted some time ago. 

 a negleted orange tree at Avenida Politécnica's traffic island. 

 a very thin sugar cane growing next to a highly polluted Little River... 

Guava tree in the foreground. 

Jardim Educandário - Jardim João XXIII on Sunday, 19 July 2020

Sandra & Rute enter our winter garden... July is at its worst possible... 

Sandra & Rute at our garden... with bleeding heart (lágrima-de-Cristo) and manioca (mandioca) in the background.

more bleeding heart taken from a beautiful angle agains the morning sun... Rute's photo. 

Angel's trumpet (trombeta-de-anjo) in our garden... 

Angel's trumpet against our neighbour's wall... 

Rute & two Christmas flowers which blooms in June-July in Brazil. 

Cemitério Israelita do Butantã on Avenida Engenheiro Heitor Eiras Garcia, at Jardim Educandário. 

I guess the tombs look East towards Jerusalem... 

a beautiful group of cypresses (ciprestes)...

view from the air: Jewish Cemetery on Av.Eng.Heitor Antonio Eiras Garcia. 

a little further down the road from the Jewish Cemetery you'll find a great expanse of land where they built a huge school for the down & trodden in 1923. It's managed by Liga Solidária which is a branch off the Catholic Ladies' League.

Catholic Liga Solidaria on the left and Butantã's Jewish Cemetery on the right of the road. 

Avenida Engenheiro Heitor Antonio Eiras Garcia goes on and on... 

all the way to Jardim Educandário.

a little graffitti... 

maybe to honour the Jewish Cemetery a little up the road they devised this Shalom Pizza... 

When one buys 2 large pizzas one'll get 1 Itubaina for free. What a bargain! In case you'll get greedier and buy 3 large pizzas you'll get a free Coca Cola... they do not specify whether it's a large Coke or just a standard one.

the vastness of Liga Solidaria's Educandário Dom Duarte's compound.

Rute showing a flower or something... that quaint little house must belong to Educandário's employees. 

Educandário Dom Duarte opened in 1923. It is managed by the Liga Solidária (Solidary League) was formed on 10 March 1923, by São Paulo's Catholic Ladies' League to help promote poor children's education, longevity and citizenship. Not only children but young adults and the old too. They look after more than 13,000 people.

Educacional Educandário Dom Duarte at Avenida Engenheiro Heitor Antônio Eiras Garcia, 5.985, Jardim Esmeralda, São Paulo-SP-05564-100 - has got an area of 480,000 m2 at Raposo Tavares District. The League also work at three different sites: Saúde, Rio Pequeno and Cidade Monções.

Complexo Educacional Educandário Dom Duarte main building inside the compound at Jardim Educandário (the suburb took its name from the Educacional Complex). Raposo Tavares District is made up of Cohab Educandário, Cohab Raposo Tavares, Jardim Amaralina, Jardim Arpoador, Jardim Batalha, Jardim Boa Vista, Jardim Cambará, Jardim Cláudia, Jardim Dracena, Jardim Educandário, Jardim Esmeralda, Jardim Guaraú, Jardim João XXIII, Jardim Lúcia, Jardim Lúcio de Castro, Jardim Luiza, Jardim Maria Augusta, Jardim Monte Belo, Jardim Paulo VI, Jardim Raposo Tavares, Jardim Rosa Maria, Jardim Rubini, Jardim Rúbio, Jardim São Jorge, Jardim Uirapuru, Parque Ipê and Vila Borges.

Raposo Tavares District has got a population of 103,987 inhabitants, 20% of its households is in a situation of high or very high social vulnerability.

a cobblestone road inside the compound...

 a football field in the compound.

480,000 m2 of original growth...

Erythrina especiosa or Mulungu do litoral...

bird's eye view of the region...