This beautiful image is of Cassia fistula, the "Golden shower tree" (also known as "the Indian Laburnum"). It grows in Southern Asia, including Southern Pakistan, India, Burma (Myanmar) and, notably, Thailand, where it is the National Tree. It is in the same family (Fabaceae) as the Laburnum tree, Wysteria and the common broom, but, then, it is a large family, having over 19,000 species in it.
The photographer is Challiyil Eswaramangalath Vipin and the picture was taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cassia_fistula1.jpg , where it has a creative commons 2.0 licence.
You can find more of Challiyil Eswaramangalath Vipin's photographs on his impressive flickr photostream at-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/challiyan/
This is another light bright summery image to feast our eyes upon on this cold snowy January day, thank you for brightening my day.
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