Shave anyone ?

Just imagine all your menfolk taking a shaving brush in hot pink and mixing their shaving cream into a soft and luxuriant lather. Well now take this image and see what nature has provided in the form of yes, you guessed it, a Shaving Brush Tree. I came across this on a walk in the Botanical Gardens the other day and I was so taken with it I came home to look it up and tell you all about it. It hails from the Americas and is called Pseudobombax Ellipticum and it is tall and spindly but oh those shaving brushes are splendid and I just loved them in the tree, on the ground and in my hands.

 

And just because I love the contrast of the colours I am throwing in some balls - so very wholly natural, of the quadong tree dropping its fruit into my outstretched hand.

Nature always wears the colours of the spirit - Ralph Waldo Emerson.