A decade later - Fundação Luso-Americana
A decade later - Fundação Luso-Americana
A decade later - Fundação Luso-Americana
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64<br />
cuLTure<br />
The seeds that sailed the seas<br />
As Portuguese, we were amazed at the towering height of the virginia tulip tree<br />
and euphoric over being able to grow two “super-trees,” the catalpa and the black locust.<br />
But these American-born beauties never settled here on a large scale as the europeans did<br />
in America. Planted in Portugal over a century ago, these beautiful specimens hark back<br />
to the days of the “plant hunters” whose overseas correspondence was made up of seeds.<br />
TEXT AND PhOTOGRAPhy By susAnA neves*<br />
A virginia tulip tree in monserrate park, sintra, portugal, 2009.<br />
Parallel no. 6 | FALL | WINTER 2011
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