#centru-buiucani

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This is a second post about the same building and the urban jungle conquering it.

You can see the small ponds and also the immense trees growing basically just around it. There are also moss growing there since the humidity was perfect for dampness-loving plants.

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This is another section following up on a road with high traffic. We saw ghetto palms on both sides of the street. Be it near construction sites or near bicycle signs.

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Small TOH saplings sprouting just in front of old Chisinau houses. The Common hop used in beer-making forgiving it the bitter taste, is a climbing perennial herbaceous plant related to the Cannabaceae family. It escapes cultivation easily and it grows on top of fences. It has a potent antibacterial activity and also contains a potent phytoestrogen that may bind to the estrogen receptors. It is dioecious (Greek for "two houses") as the TOH tree - with female and male variants of the plant.

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We are getting closer to the Art University. There are several dump sites on the way, and a great open space full of TOHs just beside the well-guarded entrance into the US embassy.

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The start on the Centru-Buiucani street was auspicious. After much amazement we at the German takeover of the Music Faculty building in ruins and all the ominous warning signs we entered the world of embassies. This street is literally full of them, with the American Embassy basking in the sun and promising a lot of work & travel. There are guards everywhere and it was quite difficult to photograph. The only thing was that our "objectives" were on the other side of the street. The TOH were growing in a thick growth, the whole area looked vaguely colonial. The trim and quite aggressive white splash of US embassy reminds one of some Banana-Republic vignette.

We also noticed some stumps with a bunch of Red vaca domnului Firebugs Pyrrhocoris apterus. You can see these black&red bugs huddling together in a lot of cities. They are familiar sight both in Bucharest and Chisinau it seems.