Friday, August 24, 2007

Cannonball Tree


Cannonball Tree
Originally uploaded by Peter B. Tzannes
The Foster Botanical Garden has some of the weirdest trees I've ever seen. This one, the Cannonball Tree, a native of Guiana, is maybe the weirdest. Micaela described it as "a party in a tree."
A sign at it's base read: "Caution, watch out for falling cannon balls." Maybe the stench of it's rotting fruit was the tree's way of saying the same thing.

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