Recent Examples on the WebStone 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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