dodonea

Updated: May 6, 2025

There are black date plum trees, what we here call the narrow-leaved dodonea, olive wood, gum trees, and the cinnamon tree; while in some parts the cabbage trees raise their naked columns more than a hundred feet high, crowned at their summits with clustering leaves, and towering above the wood like one forest piled upon another.

Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - Paul and Virginia from the French of J.B.H. de Saint Pierre