A "COW TREE"
A "cow tree," one. that gives real milk, was among the new species of plant life-collected by Professor Samuel J. Record, of the Yale school of forestry, on his trip to British Honduras and Guatemala, "At the first stroke.of the native's axo a creamy white latex fairly gushed out of the thick bark." Professor Record said in describing tho tree: "It looked so much like >eal milk and was so free from stickiness that I could not resist the temptation of tasting it. I found it sweet and palatable, and my only regret was that I had no way of taking back a quantity of it to try on a dish of' bananas. When we left the fallen tree milk was flowing out of every break of the bark. The species proved to be new to natural science, and the genus had not previously; been reported on ;the continent.— ' _ —
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 107, 2 November 1926, Page 4
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152A "COW TREE" Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 107, 2 November 1926, Page 4
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