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Canon Ball Tree

Peter Dexter

Well-known member
Scientific name: Couroupita guianensis is an unusual tree native to the southern Caribbean. It has enormous fruits the size and weight of a canon ball and huge racemes of fragrant flowers. For it's prolific flower production it is frequently planted as a decorative tree in many Latin American countries. The city of Cali, Colombia has many mature plantings of this species throughout the city. It is interesting and fortunate that these "canon balls" don't drop with any frequency unlike coconuts which actually have a human injury statistic.

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Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Fabulous tree! It must be something to see piles of these piled on the ground. Do they Galli over a week or so?

The flowers are so exotic and rich. Are the stems largecenough to be able to cut them for a vase?

Asher
 

Peter Dexter

Well-known member
I think you could but you would need a sturdy vase to hold them. In the areas where the trees have been planted you rarely see the cannon balls on the ground. Don't know why.
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
I think you could but you would need a sturdy vase to hold them. In the areas where the trees have been planted you rarely see the cannon balls on the ground. Don't know why.

Folk might have an eye for them to feed their pigs and chickens!

Asher
 
Awesome looking flower. They look like they would cause damage if they fell off and hit something. You certainly wouldn't want to park your car under one of them if they fell off like acorns.
 
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