Here's a tree at the Desert Botanical Garden that I hadn't paid much attention to before. The last time I was there, I noticed how sort of dried out it look so I snapped a couple of photos and when I got home I looked up Elephant Tree. It appears that there is another tree that goes by the same name so I looked up the latin name for it "Pachycormus discolor".
It turns out that the tree isn't dry at all. Those are actually blooms on the tree and they have a pinkish hue to them.
By the way, the term "pachy" means thick and "cormus" means stump. The name refers to the thick trunk on the tree. Interesting!
The "dry"tree looks beautiful, good you made the photo!
ReplyDeleteThe old tree's colour makes me think of autumn.
ReplyDeleteYou do find the most interesting things. This is another of those things of which I've never heard! It's kind of scraggly-looking but so are elephants. And I'm guessing that if it weren't for those blooms that don't look like blooms at all, the tree would look even more scraggly. But that's OK, we've got scraggly trees here, too. None of them are elephants, though! :))
ReplyDeleteA very interest tree and great photo of the tree silhouetted agains the beautiful blue sky
ReplyDeleteIt looks lovely against that blue sky!
ReplyDeleteIt does stand out well!
ReplyDeleteWhen you pull the shot in for a closer look it's really pretty Sharon, all those delicately pale pink flowers. Tres interesting to see.
ReplyDeleteI never heard of that tree. Isn't it great that we can look things up so easily? I remember when we had to grab an encyclopedia or go to the library.
ReplyDeleteThats really neat, I don't think we have these here.
ReplyDeleteI would never have guessed those were flowers! They definitely look like dry leaves.
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