This silk-cotton tree at Lalbagh botanical gardens in Bengaluru, which may pre-date British rule, is a ‘living museum’
Given that this silk-cotton tree has sat at the centre of Lalbagh botanical gardens in Bengaluru for more than two centuries, there is a fair chance that the writer Priyanka Sacheti is not the first person to be enamoured with it. “It’s so commanding, with its incredibly imposing buttress roots,” says Sacheti. “When it’s in bloom, it’s entirely covered in these pale-pink flowers that give it this really inviting appearance.”
Silk-cotton, or kapok, trees are indigenous to Central America and the Caribbean, but this one, located 15,000 miles across the Pacific, is thought to be the largest-known specimen. “It is as much a newcomer to the land as those who planted and oversaw its journey from a mere sapling to the mighty presence it is today,” says Sacheti.
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