Cultivated mango trees seem stunted. I guess they keep them low for easier harvesting.
We passed through Bakers Swamp without noticing anything. Then reached our last dot on the map for this trip - Larras Lee and saw this. The roadside monument says: In Memory of WILLIAM LEE (1794 - 1870) of "Larras Lake" a pioneer of the sheep and cattle industry and first member for Roxburgh under responsible government (1856 - 1859). This stone was erected by his descendants. --- 1938 --- This is a repost from a few days ago. Thinking I would use this for this week’s Taphophile Tragics post I dug a little further into William Lee’s story, it’s a very colonial Australian one. William was born of convict parents, living his childhood years around the Sydney region. In his early 20s he was issued with some government cattle, recommended as a suitable settler and granted 134 acres at Kelso near Bathurst. He was one of the first in the area and did well. A few years later he was granted a ram and an inc...
We grow a lot of peaches here and they keep them pruned back. It encourages healthy new growth and makes them easier to pick.
ReplyDeleteI think that is what is happening here too .... then again I could be quite wrong and these might be some other tropical plant and not mangos at all.
DeleteYou are right. It is for easier harvesting.
ReplyDeleteAvocados? Macadamias?
ReplyDeleteSome of my Mum's family grew up around Bundaberg.
She used to tell me that their backyard mango tree produced so much fruit,
they buried it coz they couldn't eat it all - and nobody else around town
wanted it coz they all had their own mango trees.
I remember being horrified.
Throwing away mangoes!!
I found it even weireder in PNG. There they eat the mangos when they are green and crunchy like apples. Never a ripe mango to be found.
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