This last Friday I was on my direction home fromA Natural Farmwith my friend Curtiss . We ’d gone down there to cull up a fewCherry of the Rio Grandetrees from Luc , the possessor and all around great guy .
Curtiss was drive . He ’d already stopped the van just a few proceedings previously so we could pick some of the abundant papery seedcase from someAlbizia lebbecktrees I ’d descry . They ’re nitrogen fixers and I always need more of those .
After turning around from that layover and point northward through Fruitland Park , I saw something I could n’t believe . Curtiss must ’ve examine my forefront swivel .
“ Alright … what did you see ? ”
“ I could ’ve assert that was anEnterolobiumtree over there ! ”
“ Okay … I ’ll turn around . ”
David The Good with enterolobium seed pods.
Curtiss did and we parked and hike back alongside the main road to the tree . On the way I stopped for a minute and gathered some Ralph Johnson Bunche ofrosary peasfor my seed collection , but we develop to the mystery tree diagram in just a couple of transactions … and it was unbelievable .
There , standing by the highway and still contain many pods from last year ’s fruiting season , was the largestEnterolobiumtree I ’ve ever seen … and it was definitely outside its steady range .
For those of you not intimate with the Enterolobiums , they ’re also known as “ ear - seedcase tree diagram ” or “ guanacaste ” Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in their native South American range . They ’re beautiful and spreading , plus theyfix abundant amounts of nitrogen – a unadulterated addition to any food timber .
David The Good with enterolobium seed pods.
This fussy tree is anEnterolbiumcontortislliquum(thank you , Green Deane for helpingsort out the metal money ) .
Here ’s a shot of me holding a few of the pods we snagged :
David The Good with enterolobium seed pods .
It ’s not every Clarence Day you see such an awesome tree . I ’ll count it was at least 60′ tall and perhaps 100′ all-inclusive . It felt like we were support in the Amazon being beneath that monster ’s branches .
I ’m definitely take up the seeded player . And I ’m very glad Curtiss turned the van around or else I would ’ve missed a heck of a cool tree diagram .
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