300+ yrs and going on…
This Silk Cotton Ceiba Tree [Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn.] tree in lalbagh is said to be more than 300yrs old…. Oh! What a marvelous tree, large branches, huge base. The tree must have seen three generations of mankind and a sure witness to the city’s growth from many kings, empires and rulers to the present day.I wish, If only this tree could speak!!
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Yes, the tree has a lot of support from the base upward, magnificent, we have trouble from big trees with shallow root systems and also have some of those vivid flame trees - but not many.
On Thursday, September 6, 2007 I posted Chorisia speciosa, the silk cotton tree. When I saw your silk cotton tree I realized that we use the wrong common name and our tree is floss silk tree. There is a silk cotton Ceiba tree about four blocks from our house and not until now did I realize the I call both trees a silk cotton tree. More interesting, that forty years ago I gave a friend a silk cotton tree thinking that it was the beautiful flowering Chorisia. Their tree grew to be a giant but I never saw it bloom. The tree is so big and the flowers so small you have to look closely to see them.
Thanks Julia and Tog for sharing such intersting information and thoughts...
what a gorgeous photo :)
I love how trees are soooo
rooted and then reach sooo
high to peek at the stars:)
Oh wow! Great roots!
that was really superb!
This tree is probably older than the US. Wow.
Amazing.
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