painting - age 9

Monday, September 13, 2010

Dragon's Blood Tree (Dracaena Cinnabari)

I was going through some photos on a travel website and found some information on Socotra Island.

Socotra is a small Yemeni archipelago of four islands and islets in the Indian Ocean off the coast of the Horn of Africa, about 350 kilometers south of the Arabian peninsula.

Socotra is one of the most isolated landforms on Earth of continental origin.

The archipelago features narrow coastal plains, a limestone plateau with caves, and mountains which rise to 1,525 meters above sea level.

Like the Galapagos Islands, this island is teeming with 700 extremely rare species of flora and fauna, a full 1/3 of which are endemic, i.e. found nowhere else on Earth
(Travel-to 2008).


What grabbed my attention was the amazing trees, how much fun would these species be for a child? Beautiful and devine!


Reference:
http://www.travel-to.info/2008/09/socotra-island-the-most-bizzare-place-on-earth

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