Weirdest Trees – Blood vs Fruit Tree vs Eucalyptus
There are a lot of weird and unusual trees around the world, so we decided to show you some of them. You decide which one is the most weirdest.
Dragon’s Blood Tree
Dracaena draco, the Canary Islands Dragon Tree or Drago is a subtropical Dragon Tree native to the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Madeira, Azores, and locally in western Morocco. This tree is the natural symbol of the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain), together with the Fringilla teydea.
The tree is characterised by a single or multiple trunk growing up to 12 m tall (rarely more), with a dense umbrella-shaped canopy of thick leaves. It grows slowly, requiring about ten years to reach 1 m tall. Young trees remain with only a single stem; branching occurs when the tree flowers, when two side shoots at the base of the flower panicle continue the growth as a fork in the stem. Being monocotyledonous, Dracaena draco does not display annual rings and age can only be estimated by the number of branch forking occurrences (indicating the number of flowering episodes) and measuring the frequency of flowering (less than annual). Some specimens are believed to be up to 650 years old; the oldest is growing at Icod de los Vinos in northwest Tenerife.
The recently discovered wild populations in western Morocco have been described as a separate subspecies, Dracaena draco subsp. ajgal. Some of the plants on Gran Canaria are referred to a separate species Dracaena tamaranae, which is more closely related to East African and Arabian Dracaena.
When the bark or leaves are cut it secretes a reddish resin, one of the sources of the substance known as Dragon’s blood.
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Tree with Fruits on the Trunk
The jabuticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora (Mart.) O.Berg. [Myrtaceae]) is a small tree native to Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil grown for the purple, grape-like fruits it produces. Traditionally, an astringent decoction of the sun-dried skins has been used as a treatment for hemoptysis, asthma, diarrhea, and gargled for chronic inflammation of the tonsils. The fruit is 3-4 cm in diameter with one to four large seeds, borne directly on the main trunks and branches of the plant, lending a distinctive appearance to the fruiting tree. It has a thick, purple, astringent skin that covers a sweet, white, or rosy pink gelatinous flesh. Common in Brazilian markets, jaboticabas are largely eaten fresh; their popularity has been likened to that of grapes in the US. Fresh fruit may begin to ferment 3 to 4 days after harvest, so they are often used to make jams, tarts, strong wines, and liqueurs.
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Colorful Eucalyptus Tree
Real colors. This is not photoshoped!!! These eucalyptus are growing in New Guinea and Sulawesi. There is good reason to visit them.
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