I'm Only Here for the Food!

I originally intended to have this post up for last week Saturday. However, things happened and, well, here it is…

It might be an overstatement at this point but I like to take pictures of trees and flowers. In fact, I think I prefer to take landscape/outdoors to that of people (read: portrait pictures). If somebody would try to hire me to do the later, I will simply refuse. However, in the case of the former, hell, I might do something similar to what Humphrey Bogart’s character did in The Maltese Falcon (take some amount to cover time and expenses). I am digressing here… So, for this post, pictures of trees and flowers in Panama! (Oh, in most cases, I won’t know the name of the tree/flowers… -_-;;;)

The following two pictures are really odd…

No, I do not mean to show litter in Panama (which itself is a problem). Rather, a really odd problem. What happens is that, in tropical countries, if you drop some seeds in a plot of land, the chances it will sprout are really high. In this case, in the city itself, you could find some trees with the fruit hanging there…

My height is considered to be above average for a Chinese-born. I just had to “stretch” myself to reach some mangoes in a tree in an empty lot in Panama…

Your stereotypical “palm tree in a tropical country” picture. But, wait, that is not necessariliy a “palm” tree. See those red things hanging on a side? Those are not young coconuts (which would be really small anyway). Instead, these are pixbae, a tree from the palm family but, unlike young coconuts, the fruits are rather starchy.

This is yet another “fruity” tree/bush you can find on the sidewalks/empty lots. See the yellow fruits? Here, we have nance, which is used to (a) make a liqueur or (b) make a pudding dessert.

While we have cherry blossoms in Vancouver, in Panama, there is the guayacán tree. Almost the exact same effect…