Nature-india

Fruit:

The Sandbox Tree, also known as Possumwood or Jabillo, is an evergreen tree found in tropical regions of North and South America. These trees can grow to 30m (100ft) with leaves that are 2ft wide. Not only is the trunk of this tree covered in thousands of spikes, but it’s milky sap is poisonous. The sap was used by the Carib people to make poison arrow heads. So where’s the explosion? I hear you cry! Well the fruit that grows on the Sandbox Tree, disperse its seeds by explosive dehiscence. Dehiscence is where a mature fruit opens to release its seeds. The Sandbox Tree’s fruit, does not only open, but explode, earning it the name Dynamite Tree because of the sound this causes. Not only do they explode, but they explode with such force, that they often wound people and livestock that happen to be walking