Beautiful. But dangerous.

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"Description: Ceret Sao Paulo. In culture, history (from wikipedia) : The tree figures in the mythologies of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, in particular that of the Maya civilization, where the concept of the central world tree is often depicted as a ceiba trunk, which connects the planes of the Underworld (Xibalba), the skies and the terrestrial realm. The Honduran city of La Ceiba was named after a particular ceiba tree that grew down by the old docks. The Puerto Rican town of Ceiba is also named after this tree. Ceiba is also the national tree of both Guatemala and Puerto Rico. In 1525, Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés ordered the hanging of Aztec emperor Cuauhtemoc from a Ceiba tree after overtaking his empire. In 1898, the Spanish army in Cuba surrendered to the United States under a ceiba, which was named the Tree of Peace (Arbol de la Paz), outside of Santiago de Cuba. Ceiba insignis and Ceiba speciosa are added to some versions of the hallucinogenic drink Ayahuasca."

http://www.travelicio.us/f/Brazil/3481650972/Paineira_rosa_tronco_e_espinhos,_jovem_%28Ceiba_speciosa%29._Brazilian_native/

this is about the best i could find on it. found it by searching flickr for "odd clouds".

Paineira-rosa "Ceiba speciosa" Brazilian

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[redroanchronicles]

If only supervillains the world over had known of these trees, they could've used a single crazy log for their man-crushing booby trap devices, instead of having to install each spike by hand!