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The unusual shape of the dragon's blood tree is an adaptation for survival in arid conditions with low amounts of soil, such as in mountaintops. The large, packed crown provides shade and reduces evaporation. This shade also aids in the survival of seedlings growing beneath the adult tree, explaining
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I'm wondering why there isn't a picture here that shows the tree "bleeding" its red sap, since that is its most distinctive physical trait - as evidenced by the common name for the tree and by the fact that the sap is mentioned in the first couple lines of this very article. Surely there is a public
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All around us dragon's blood trees lifted their branches skyward, looking, as many have remarked, like blown-out umbrellas. Even in a forest of dragon's blood, the individual trees keep their distance, like shy people at a party. Hundreds and hundreds of dragon's blood trees stretched out in all
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Hi there - since asked, let me say that I took this photo myself in the Koko Crater, and identified the plant according to its label there. Just speaking for myself, I would guess that the Koko Crater botanists knew what they were doing. cheers,
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