They Grow Cannon Balls on Trees in South America 



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SS-s^lar^e ";nS ^7 ■^^°T''^ guianensis) is a native of tropical South America. It 

 erowVin^f;.^ T'-'^'^u^ ^'"'*' contammg many seeds. In French Guiana the tree 

 grows in great profusion, the natives referring to it as the "baseball tree " When full 

 wS s ouTJL'nl " ''«'V,-S- *;^an a baseball which it closely resembles even to VlTe Lm 

 which is quite plam in the photograph The fruit is not used for food by the natives 



