Dawn
It is the season when the blooms turn into fruits, The birds and bats are happy and clustering around these trees in the heat of the afternoon and the dark of the night. This Jamaican Cherry tree, strawberry tree or the Munitingia Calbura tree has tiny red cherries which smell like cotton candy and taste as sweet. Locally no one picks these fruits, but birds and bees abound around these trees.
The fruits are very tiny, about a cm in circumference but they do smell heavenly. When they are ripe , these fruits do not fail to turn your head towards the tree even if you have no clue what tree it is. Bats haunt these trees at night. This beautiful little tree which grows to a height of 20 feet has neat umbrella like shape. The branches with thick foliage arch down. low making it easy for people to pick the fruit.
Parrots and Sunbirds love these trees. Our rescued Alexandrian parrot, Xerxes who has now got a beautiful home used to love these fruits. We used to collect these fruits to train him when he was with us.
This fruit world over is made into jams, jellies and tarts. However, we neither eat them nor cook them, these beauties are for the birds. Children love to pick them off the branches and eat them, but with bats around we do not encourage children to eat them anymore.
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How interesting. I have never seen nor heard of it. Fabulous, cotton candy. How awesome is that. I love how you explain things. Its like being there. I can almost look up and see those bats flitting around at night. Another tree I need to read about I see, so thank you! What a great shot too.
That you Kim for those kind words. Its a cute little tree with a sweet smell.
Great picture – love the framing!
had a great weekend, thank you for asking!
Thank you, glad you weekend was great.
your story of your drive was bittersweet (wasted food, but the dogs had fun) was your weekend overall good?
My weekend was beautiful, It was perfect. Just having the boys around makes my life picture perfect. The dogs enjoyed their ride. Zoe hung out of the window most of the time.
Neither of our dogs hang their heads out the window, interesting I always wondered why that was.
I have never seen or heard of them. I’m learning of new plants and fruits.
Where there are bats, it’s good you told the children not to pick up the fruits.
We have a lot of bats around here lately, we never had them before.
Are they after food or what might be the reason?
Yes, these fruits seem like their special meal.
That is a very beautiful bloom you captured it really well Dawn,
Thank you Rasmasandra. These are as big as the strawberry flowers so people don’t notice them on a tree.
Such beautiful details! It must be awesome to see parrot around.
Parrots are very common around here Ellei
Oops Sorry Ellie. That was a typo
Very beautiful flowering. Here the chickens also attack the sweet fruits, if they are not covered with a fine plastic net.
But chicken cannot attack fruits on trees, can they? they could eat everything that falls off the tree though.
It is a beautiful flower. The birds are certainly very happy with this fruit.
They are Vidocka, the fruit tastes so good.
A beautiful bloom Dawn. It was a quiet weekend.
Thank you Carol, Hope you enjoyed your quiet weekend.
Beautiful macros here! Do you use your phone with a macro lens or a camera?
This was taken on my phone, it has a macro setting.