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The characters—ebony, sandalwood, ceiba, redwood and so on—quickly come to feel like old friends, their long life histories carefully told and the stakes of their uncertain futures in the Anthropocene clearly laid out.
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Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
Stone carvings of salamanders, snakes, turtles, and other local animals are strategically placed in the pathways, and there’s even a dipping pool under a giant ceiba tree just off the main corridor.
—Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2024
But rooted to the front steps was an enormous ceiba tree, with orchids growing out of the gnarled, hide like trunk.
—Paula McLain, Town & Country, 12 July 2018
In one entrancing swath of forest, towering ceiba trees loom and hooting howler monkeys leap from branch to branch in the understory.
—Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 26 Apr. 2018
Utuado is surrounded by dense forest of native ceiba, Asian teaks, and West Indian and Honduran mahogany where parrots roost.
—Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimes.com, 24 Sep. 2017
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Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
Stone carvings of salamanders, snakes, turtles, and other local animals are strategically placed in the pathways, and there’s even a dipping pool under a giant ceiba tree just off the main corridor.
—Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2024
But rooted to the front steps was an enormous ceiba tree, with orchids growing out of the gnarled, hide like trunk.
—Paula McLain, Town & Country, 12 July 2018
In one entrancing swath of forest, towering ceiba trees loom and hooting howler monkeys leap from branch to branch in the understory.
—Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 26 Apr. 2018
Utuado is surrounded by dense forest of native ceiba, Asian teaks, and West Indian and Honduran mahogany where parrots roost.
—Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimes.com, 24 Sep. 2017
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“Ceiba.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ceiba. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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