Re: Two Unique Trees - Chorisia, Brachychiton

Title: Re: Two Unique Trees - Chorisia, Brachychiton
If I have shared this story with the group in the past, please forgive me.

Everytime Chorisia comes up and the issue of thorns (or spines) is raised, it reminds me of a conversation I had with my son and daughter when they were about 5 and 6.

We were looking at Chorisia trees in a garden and the kids said to me  "Mom, you know why some of those trees have thorns and others don't?"   Of course, I asked them why.

"The ones with the thorns are boy trees," they said, " and the ones with the smooth trunks are girl trees."

I asked  how they knew that the smooth trees were girls and the thorny ones boys, and they responded as if I had insulted their intelligences.  "Mom!" they said, "everybody knows that!!!"

Here we are 9 years later and I am still laughing.
       




The Chorisia thorns have been mentioned a couple times. I thought I should mention that they are easily knocked off . They seem to be a kind of surface growth.  All people who grow this tree here in San Luis Obispo keep them off the trunk up to around 7 feet from the ground. I guess they don't expect people like Kareem to visit!            
---Chas---


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