🌩️🎉 Oh, great news, folks! Tropical trees now look forward to lightning strikes as the ultimate spa treatment. Apparently, Mother Nature's electric shock therapy is the secret to their lushness—who knew trees could be so masochistic? 😂🌳
https://www.caryinstitute.org/news-insights/press-release/getting-hit-lightning-good-some-tropical-trees #tropicaltrees #lightningstrikes #naturetherapy #masochistictrees #electricspark #HackerNews #ngated

Getting hit by lightning is good for some tropical trees

https://www.caryinstitute.org/news-insights/press-release/getting-hit-lightning-good-some-tropical-trees

#HackerNews #lightning #tropicaltrees #environmentalscience #nature #conservation #trees

Coconut palm trees for tropical and boho decor.
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/coconut-palm-trees-for-tropical-and-boho-decor-jan-matson.html

A painting of lush green palm trees for tropical beach house decor! 🌴🌴

#palmtrees #coconutpalms #TropicalTrees #boho #TropicalDecor #MastoArt #JanMatson #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #ArtistsOfMastodon #trees
#FediGiftShop #bloomscrolling #gardening #garden #summer #tree #nature #treelovers #treelove #treehugger #TreesOfPixelfed #TreesOfMastodon #FediArt #BeachDecor #TropicalVibes

Will this become the new Florida Champion Ficus aurea -Strangler Fig?
We will soon find out… Stay tuned. 🌴 🌱

#tropicaltrees
#floridanative
#ficus

🎉Great news! The new paper ‘Variations in wood anatomy in Afrotropical trees with a particular emphasis on radial and axial parenchyma’ in @AnnBot by Lenka Plavcová and co-authors is now #free for a limited time. (1/7)

👉 https://botany.fyi/95nic2

#AoBpapers #TropicalTrees #PlantAdaptation

Our Brownea macrophylla - Panama Flame Tree has begun flowering. This is one of several related genera and species which are called handkerchief trees for the drooping new growth.
🌱 🌴
#tropicaltrees
#tropicalflowers

The Saraca (Ashoka) trees in the garden are flowering now.
#FlowersOfMastodon
#TreesOfMastodon
#tropicaltrees

Never ending tree maintenance ongoing.
#tropicalplants
#tropicaltrees
#arborcare

Majidea zanguebarica - Mgambo Tree, Black Pearl, or Pearl of Zanzibar and is native to East Africa. The dehisced capsule exposes the black, velvety seeds.
#tropicalplants
#tropicaltrees
#PlantsOfMastodon
#Bloomscrolling

Thick Trunk Tuesday. Last week I posted one of the two Kapok Trees in the garden, this week it is Bombax ceiba, the red Silk-Cotton tree or Kapok.

#kapok
#thicktrunktuesday
#tropicaltrees
#treesofmastodon

Ceiba pentandra One of several species of trees commonly called Kapok. This species can reach the staggering height of 250ft (77m)tall, and is known for its wide spreading buttressed roots.

#ThickTrunkTuesday
#tropicaltrees
#kapok

Gustavia Augusta - the Heaven Lotus tree from Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia.

#floweringtrees
#tropicaltrees
#flowers

This absolute unit of a Tamarind Tree at the Fruit and Spice Park in Homestead Florida.

#thicktrunktuesday
#fruittrees
#tropicaltrees
#tamarind

This tiny green tree cricket on a bronze new mango leaf.
#insects
#tropicaltrees
#mango
#cricket

Thick Trunk for Tuesday.

Breadnut Tree.

#thicktrunktuesday
#tropicaltrees

Florida Strangler Fig - Ficus aurea

#thicktrunktuesday
#tropicaltrees
#florida

An open access paper on the recently discovered tallest tropical tree, a Shorea faguetiana, in Sabah, Borneo Malaysia. The paper also argues that the tree (at 100 metres tall) is close to the highest that can possibly be reached by angiosperms (flowering plants).

#Biology #Plants #Trees #TropicalTrees #Research #Narwhal #Biodiversity #Malaysia

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2019.00032/full