In the depths of Colombia’s Caribbean region, there’s a tree some inaptly call ‘ The Tree of Guacarí ’, which was another enormous tree in the same area, rather analogous in aesthetics to the tree we’re presenting now.
That tree, else called the Samán of Guacarí, used to feature on Colombian 500 peso coins in the 90s. It was a Samanea saman, also occasionally known as a rain tree, and was cut down in 1989 as its thick branches began to detach. The original ‘ The Tree of Guacarí ’ – a different tree of a different species, nonetheless looking analogous. Image credit Siembra But the tree this composition is about is different. It’s not another iconic Samanea saman, indeed though it really looks like it.
No, it’s actually a Ficus, generally known as fig tree – the popular cosmetic factory you’ll find in auditoriums and homes each around the globe. And it has grown huge. Regarded as Columbia’s largest tree, the gigantic fig is so huge, in fact, that from a distance you could mistake it for a hill.
Indeed, as you approach it, you get the sensation of being suppressed until you feel really bitsy. That’s just natural, however, as this mammoth is allegedly 30 measures high and 75 measures in periphery( we could n’t find decisive evidence but the images feel to accentuate this.) The tree has an incredibly beautiful leafage that looks like a green mountain, with branches that kiss the ground as if paying homage to Mother Earth.
And not only do they kiss the earth, but they serve as supports that the tree itself has generated, from upstanding roots coming from the branches farthest from the box. A awful sight indeed. Under this colossal tree, one has the sensation of being in the basement of a great structure, with numerous columns that support the mammoth mass, Viajar en Verano reports. Some people in Latin America call it ‘ The Tree That Walks ”, because of its ‘ bases ’ with which it ensures its expansion.
Indeed, the pillars it has grown are like branches through which it advances to cover a larger area with its branches to admit the sun’s shafts more directly or find further rich land to feed on. It all started when in 1964 the proprietor of the Alejandría ranch wanted to cover a unheroic cedar tree that he’d planted. They placed six fig tree rods around the sapling to help the cattle from damaging the youthful cedar. But the contrary happed rather of giving security to the cedar tree, the fig tree struts picked kids and also branches, which ultimately ended up absorbing and devouring the unheroic cedar.
So the ‘ Giant Fig of San Marcos ’ isn’t just one, but six different shops that were joined and strengthened by upstanding roots with which they formed supports on the ground. still, be sure to visit San Marcos and let yourself be embraced by the shadowy extremities of ‘ The Most Beautiful Tree in Colombia ’, If you ever be to travel to the Atlantic seacoast of Colombia. You’ll surely see it from hence – about three kilometers before entering the Alejandría ranch, you can get the first regard of the gigantic ‘ green mountain ’. defended by the branches of this tree, one feels small, but also amended by its important energy. Let’s stopgap it’ll stand for a long time to come.
