Ceiba speciosa, ornamental prickly fat thorny trunk tree speciman in Cyprus.

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Thorns on the trunk of a ceiba tree. Ceiba trees grow in all lowland areas of Guatemala and some highland areas as well. The ceiba was the sacred world tree, the axis of the world, in Classic Mayan cosmology. Today the ceiba is still the national tree of Guatemala.

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Size: 4368px × 2912px
Location: Cyprus
Photo credit: © MediaWorldImages / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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