whatzit trees from Costa Rica

[Jeff]

I dont know what it is but it sure was cool looking. My only quess was a coca tree?  Where you get cocoa?  Just a wild hunch.  The "fruit" hanging from it were very large, some maybe 6 or 8 inches in diameter.

[Jeff]

I'll tuck this one in here as well.

[Furby]

I don't belive the first one is cocoa.
Cocoa comes from beans on a cacao tree.
Having said that, I have no clue what it really is.

[Tom]

You big dummys!!   :D

That first one has got to be a  Mango tree with mango's hanging from the branches.

I think that second picture is of a tree from some other part of the world.

[sprucebunny]

Jeff- the second tree looks like this one that I saw in Tampa,FL



And posted about here.

https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=17489.0

It is related to or may be "Norfolk Island Pine" but seems tougher and more dense needles.

[Jeff]

Dat aint no mango.

[Tom]

Is too!

[Jeff]

As long as I'm a Dummy I can say its anything I want.  I think you get coca cola out of those things and its a coca tree.  So there!





Its a mango.

[Gary_C]

That first one is easy. Haven't you ever seen an Easter Egg Tree before?  

The second one is a Fir Pine.   8)

If I am wrong, then like the rest of youse, I have no clue.

[Tom]

Jeff, You big dummy! :D

I told you to hunt those trees down and eat your fill.  I wanted you to get some Guavas too.  Those served in Restaurants are usually green.  There is nothing as good as a tree ripened mango or guava.   Man!  Go  eat a Guava.   :D

We used to eat turpentine and peach mangos until we could eat no supper.  They are very stringy and I probably still have some of the strings hung in my teeth.   Natural flossing. :D :D

I want a Mango so bad!!    Those in the Grocery store crunch when you bite them.  That's no good.

Coco Cola from a tree?  Where's the spiqot

One of these days, we'll have to attack Costa Rica with a dollar a day appetite.  I'll bet I could come back to the states with a weight gain.  :D

[DanG]

Yep, them is Mangoes hangin' on that Cocoa tree.  The second one is a SPF tree.  I see the wood from them all the time in Home Cheapo. ;D

[SwampDonkey]

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Man the needles of that second specimen sure are thick, almost like pencils. Couldn't imagine standing under that pine when it sheds them pencils. :D

[Mooseherder]

Them are just big String Beans.

[Fla._Deadheader]

Don't know about Guavas in the US of A, BUT, down here, they have big curved seed pods. I believe The B's had some of them. The seeds are fuzzy and first taste they are like a cool breath mint, only soft. The fuzz peels off in yer mouth, and you spit the big black seed out and chew up the covering.

  There SHOULD be some photos in that collection or "over 800" the Tourists took.  : : :