MUSICAL TREE found in the West India Islands has a peculiarly-shaped leaf and pods with a split or open edge. The wind passing through these forms the sound which gives the tree its peculiar name. In Barbados there is a valley filled with these trees, and when the trade winds blow across the island a constant moaning is heard from it which in the still hours of the night has a very weird and unpleasant effect. A species of .acacia, growing abundantly in the Sudan, is also called the whistling tree. Its shoots are frequently, by the agency of the eggs of insects, distorted in shape and swollen into a globular bladder, from one to two inches in diameter. After the insect has emerged from a circular hole in the side of the swelling, the opening, played upon by the wind, becomes a musical instrument, equal in sound to a sweet-toned flute.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 143, 18 June 1931, Page 8
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