Images Dated 2009 May

823. View of the Sugarloaf Mountain from the Aqueduct Road, Rio Janeiro

A Sloth feeding on a Trumpet Tree (Cecropia peltata, L.) in the foreground. The Trumpet Tree is so called because its hollow branches are used by the natives. of South America to make musical instruments

© RBG KEW

Aqueduct Road, Art, Artist, Landscape, Leaves, Marianne North, Mountain, Painting, Rio Janeiro, Trumpet Tree, V Iew

781. Poison Tree strangled by a Fig, Queensland

The central figure of this picture represents the skeleton-like trunk of a Fig Tree, which has nearly strangled the Poison Tree (Laportea, moroides, Wedd.), in a fork of whose branches it started life as a seedling epiphyte. It soon grew apace, and s

© RBG KEW

Art, Artist, Fig, Leaves, Marianne North, Painting, Poison Tree, Queens Land, Skeleton Like, Strangled, Trunk