Images Dated 2009 May
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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