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Re: Divi Divi Tree???
The Dividivi in front of Amsterdam Manor:
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Tomorrow, Friday March 18th, is a national holiday. The dividivi tree, considered one of the national embleems, is on a lot of T-Shirts used by the locals on this festive day. The tree itself was not chain sawed but one of the two mayor branches was severed with a prunning handsaw. They cut through the middle on Carnaval's Sunday, before sun arising. Probably somebody stopped the barbaric act before completed.
Maybe some drunken ignorant wanted to use this tree branch as a decoration on his carnaval trailer.
An other theory is that taxidrivers and souvenirsellers on the spot could not tolerate one and the other (a photo opt spot) so the tree was victim to progress.
By the way it is not a Dividivi but a Fofoti tree. This is a mangrove plant.
Years ago abundant on the island of Aruba.
BigPapa was so concerned about the distruction that he realised an act of reconcilation by planting a Tamarinde (Tammy) tree on a schoolyard. There was also a donation of ten small Kwihi trees (an other local popular tree) to the school.
They are going to use them as shade for the students in front of the school. For the locals there is too much sunshine, you may distinguise between locals and non-locals by the use of the shadow side of the streets versus the sunny side.
Excuse me my errors, this board is for me a training area to better my use of your language. Sort of hands on training.
The rescue of the severed tree is sponsered by two big local companies. It looks like there tree docters acomplished the almost impossible task of giving the mutilated branch live again. There are plenty of new leaves on this part of the tree. We are crossing our fingers that this is not a final revival before total colapse.
If you want to read more about this particular incident search this board using the words DIVIDIVI, FOFOTI, BIGPAPA, CHARLES or some more according to YOUR proper inspiration.
Wito.
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