Women wearing the Vietnamese traditional dress, ao dai, pose for a picture under flowering pink shower trees in Cao Lanh District, Dong Thap Province.

A pink shower tree blooms on the end of a pond amidst lush green rice fields in An Giang Province. The pink shower tree (Cassia bakeriana), native to Southeast Asia, is usually planted for its beauty. It also offers locals some shade.

A countryside scene in Tinh Bien District, An Giang Province. The early summer sunshine of April, when the seasonal rains first appear, is when the pink shower trees shed their leaves and the flowers bloom in profusion.

Visitors to An Giang and Dong Thap can see the pink shower trees in bloom along roads, fields and rivers and in house gardens.

The pink shower trees in bloom on a small country road in Chau Phu District, An Giang Province.

A young woman harvests yellow chrysanthemums under a pink shower tree in Phu Tan District, An Giang Province.

Also in Phu Tan District, a beautiful scene with a small bridge over a stream on the banks of which stands a tree with its distinct pink canopy.

The flowers bloom along the banks of a ditch in Phu Tan District.