“Galápagos Giant Prickly Pear in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador grows tall to survive tortoises! It is a prickly pear cacti with towering trunks that can reach over 40 feet or 12 meters high. On islands without tortoises, the cacti does not grow towering trunks, however, on tortoise occupied islands, the cacti grow large and […]
Potato Tree
“Potato Tree is native to North and South America. It is fast-growing evergreen tree reaching a height of up to 8 meters or 26 feet. It gets its name from the broken roots that smells like cooked potatoes. Most parts of it are used in modern and traditional medicine. Pharmaceutical uses include the manufacturing of […]
Ponytail
“Ponytail Palm is an evergreen tree native to Mexico. It can grow to around 15 feet in height and one of the longest surviving trees is around 350 years old. It stores water at the bottom of its stem which appears swollen and hence the common name “”Elephant’s foot or Bottle Palm””. It has been […]
Ponderosa Pine
“Ponderosa Pine is native to USA and Canada. It is an evergreen tree that can grow to heights of over 200 feet. The tallest tree is recorded at 268.29 ft and can be found in Portland, Oregon. Native Americans used the inner bark as food and the sap as a chewing gum. It has also […]
Poem-John Blight
“Mangrove I saw its periscope in the tide; its torpedo-seed seeking the soft side of the island, the grey mud-bank. And, where it touched, it seemed the land sank with its tree exploding from water; the green mangroves’ fountainhead of leaves bursting, seen like a mushroom-top of detritus and spray. Today, in my boat, at […]
Pomelo
“Pomelo or Citrus Maxima, is a citrus fruit with a look of a big grapefruit, native to South and Southeast Asia. This fruit is known by various local names in India such as “Batabi Lebu” in West Bengal, “Robab Tenga” in Assam and “Nobaab” in Manipur. In many parts of South East Asia, it is […]
Poem_Zane Stotts
“The Planting of the Apple-Tree Come, let us plant the apple-tree. Cleave the tough greensward with the spade; Wide let its hollow bed be made; There gently lay the roots, and there Sift the dark mould with kindly care, And press it o’er them tenderly, As, round the sleeping infant’s feet, We softly fold the […]
Poem_William Makepeace Thackeray
“The Mahogany Tree Christmas is here: Winds whistle shrill, Icy and chill, Little care we: Little we fear Weather without, Shelter about The Mahogany Tree. Once on the boughs Birds of rare plume Sang, in its bloom; Night-birds are we: Here we carouse, Singing like them, Perched round the stem Of the jolly old tree. […]
Poem_William Cullen Bryant
“The Planting of the Apple-Tree Come, let us plant the apple-tree. Cleave the tough greensward with the spade; Wide let its hollow bed be made; There gently lay the roots, and there Sift the dark mould with kindly care, And press it o’er them tenderly, As, round the sleeping infant’s feet, We softly fold the […]
Poem_Tom Splitt
“The Tree The calm quiet strength of a tree Anchored deep in the earth Reaching high in the sky The calm quiet strength of a tree The calm quiet strength of a tree Full of life from its roots To the tiniest branch The calm quiet strength of a tree And oh, how it comforts […]