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Read the previous story before this one, number 1391.

The Bottle tree and the Boab tree.
In a previous story I described fuel starvation at Taroom Queensland) and a forced landing down hill between the bottle trees. This story is to describe a bottle tree, picture on the left. it’s relative in the Kimberlies in North West Australia, centre, and in South Africa on the right where they are known as the Boab or Boabab tree.
The centre tree is an icon in Derby W.A. and is known as the jail tree. It is said some 18 prisoners could be held in it. it would have been most uncomfortable in that hot tropical climate.
Surprisingly they can be dug out (excavator) and transplanted. I saw two in the driveway of my old Kununurra house and I know one was transplanted to Kings Park in Perth some 1,900 miles south.