02 June 2009

Cascade


A cascade from a plant that appears to be a member of the banana family. I presume this is the fruit and wish I knew its name. There it was, swinging gently in the breeze, at the pretty Square Etats-Unis which is a small public garden surrounded by high buildings and used, in summer, for concerts.

18 comments:

  1. Alien creature from outer space? We need someone who knows this plant...

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  2. That's a funny tree !!

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  3. I think I've seen these trees, though not sure where. Mother Nature playing tricks.

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  4. Je n'ai jamais rien vu de pareil. Intéressant!

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  5. Don't expect to get an answer from me! But you can admire without knowing the name, I suppose? :-)

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  6. Well Great Pitcutre...I Dnt Know What You Call This Plant In English But In India We Call It"Rudraksh Tree".This Is Holy Tree.Great Blog

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  7. Picture association is really powerful; reminds me of a weeping woman.

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  8. I thought the same thing, Kate. Niobe came to mind. Though she turned to stone.

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  9. I've never seen anything like this. It's very unusual and beautiful too!

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  10. Nature can be very dramatic... beautiful and scary at the same time.

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  11. It looks like a wild kind of jellyfish floating in the sky!

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  12. It is beautiful. It looks like a woman brushing or washing her long hair.

    I would look closer at the plant. It looks like the flower spike of a palm. I don't think it is open yet so you might drop by in a couple of weeks to see if it opens to a white/yellowish spray of small flowers. The palm family is quite large so I'm not certain which one it might be.

    But I would look more at the trunk and check to see if the leaves we see are from a different plant next to it. The leaves do look like a banana but their flowers are very different.

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  13. Hello again Jilly,
    Another blog of yours that I love, and I'm adding "Menton Daily Photo" also to my “Sparkling Gems of Delight” section on the sidebar (favorite blogs) of SparkleMirror.
    Thanks again!
    David

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  14. Unusual - I thought at first it was some metallic ornament.

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  15. Very unusual. It could be the seeds.

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  16. It looks alien. Very interesting find.

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  17. Unseen Rajasthan, I looked up the tree you mentioned but the tree itself is quite different - unless as Marta suggests the fruit is coming from another tree (your tree) but it appears to be from a tree with a banana-like leaf.

    Marta, a very good idea to go back and take a look in a week or so - first to check it really is from a banana-like tree and secondly to see how it has developed. I'll do that! Thanks to both of you so much for suggestions.

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  18. What a funny hair cut it would be !
    Imagine.

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