As a miracle of creation, every year, in July, when the red floodwaters of alluvial plains from the upper Mekong River flow into the upstream Mekong River, the banyan tree rises from the dry soil and blooms together.
The lentil flowers are small, the petals are thin and smooth to fragile, but they have a yellow color that is as brilliant as the yellow apricot blooming to welcome Spring. But more than the yellow apricot is enhanced with the color of Spring, the lentils are a gift from nature for flooded areas.
Because it is not only a fulcrum for people in flooded areas to reduce their feelings of being uncomfortable in front of the sea, creating a typical symbol of the Mekong Delta water season, but also giving people here raw materials to make the specialties of the Southern river region more attractive, such as: braised fish sauce, banh xeo...
Without care, fertilizer and water-absorbed water in the city center, but flowers and suck in the fresh air of the sky and the brilliance of the sky, so they are considered a natural pure vegetable of the land given by heaven.
After the flood receded, the trees themselves produced fruit and buried the seeds themselves in the ground, then waited until next year to grow up and bloom, continuing the new life cycle. The constantly enduring locust is so attached to the Mekong Delta that it reminds many generations far from home to remember it as the shape of their homeland.
