barringtoni

Updated: May 4, 2025

Amongst the most remarkable was a fringe of stately old Barringtoni, covered with orchids and other epiphytes gorgeous trees when in flower; the red stamens, five inches long, with golden yellow anthers like tassels, depending from the boughs; and their fruit, of the size of the fist, is doubly useful to the fisherman, who employs them, on account of their specific gravity, in floating his nets, and beats them to pieces to stupefy the fish.

Tomás de Comyn - The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes