Unusual cannonball (cannon ball) tree ( couroupita guianensis )
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Some images and short video taken in the Top End of the Northern Territory of Australia, of a rare beautiful Cannonball tree that can be found in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, on display near the carpark of the George Brown Botanical Gardens. This tree is native to South America, Southern Carribean as well as India. This beautiful tree, with the most amazing large seed pods that resemble a dehusked coconut, or brown cannonball, also has incredibly beautiful flowers that grow off large stalks all along it’s long slender trunk. These flowers of the Cannonball Tree have to be smelt in person to truely appreciate the incredibly glorious scent. The tree is related to the Lecythidaceae family, and the flowers of this particular tree does not have nector, but instead, as observed by French botanist, Antioine Porteau in 1825, that when a bee enters one of these flowers, it will rub the bee’s back with fertile pollen that the bee will inturn carry with it to another flower! – Created with AquaSoft SlideShow for YouTube: |
