Planted in October 2013 with Tarn, T15 grows steadily and is now taller than me ! :D
It's now the tree that got the tallest among the ones I've planted in Bangkok streets, and one of the few survivors. Now it got that far, I'm confident it has a chance to be just as big as the other trees in the street !
A friend attracted my attention to the funny names of this tree : bastard poon tree, fetid sterculia, poon tree, skunk tree ! The very complete Sterculia foetida page from Dr. Giuseppe MAZZA's Nature encyclopedia http://www.photomazza.com/?-Encyclopedia-&lang=en will tell you all you want to know, but I can't resist copying an extract here :
The name of the genus comes from the Latin “stercus” = dung, manure, with reference to the unpleasant odour of the flowers and the leaves of some species; the name of the species, is the Latin adjective “foetidus, a, um” = fetid, stinking, with reference to the unpleasant smell of the flowers.
Exactly my kind of guerrilla street tree ! :D
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Taller than my raised arm
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Great idea - I don't know why other people plant more trees. Do you have some tree planting activities in the near future? Can you announce that on this blog?
ReplyDeleteI see an empty slot next to the tree........time to another tree...
There finally is a facebook page, where all events will be announced: https://www.facebook.com/plantatreebangkok
DeleteWe'll start planting again at the end of July, and yes, we'll plant another tree next to this one! ^^
Great idea - I don't know why other people plant more trees. Do you have some tree planting activities in the near future? Can you announce that on this blog?
ReplyDeleteI see an empty slot next to the tree........time to another tree...