Description
The tree grows to a height of 25–30 meters. The dried seeds are the size of an adult's fingertip; they are brown and have coarse skin.
The species is also given as Scaphium macropodum or Scaphium lychnophorum.
Read more about this topic: Sterculia Lychnophora
Famous quotes containing the word description:
“An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which.”
—Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe (b. 1919)
“A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)
“Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)