Unterschiede

Hier werden die Unterschiede zwischen zwei Versionen der Seite angezeigt.

--- wiki:baum_der_reisenden [2020/10/16 04:40] – norbert
+++ wiki:baum_der_reisenden [2022/06/05 14:46] (aktuell) – norbert
@@ Zeile 16: / Zeile 16: @@
 John Murray: Java, Siam, Canton. 1870, Kap. 15, S. 3))
-Ihre Eigenschaft als Wasserquelle wurde von den Reisenden geschätzt, von späteren Autoren jedoch angezweifelt, weil das sich darin ansammelnde Regenwasser alles andere als sauber sei. Übersehen wird dabei, dass wiederholt beschrieben wird, wie das Wasser nach dem //Anstechen// des Pflanzenstengels ausströmt. Die austretende Flüssigkeit wird als milchig mit leichtem Bananengeschmack beschrieben, als immer kühl und erfrischend ((z.B.: ''Mary'' and ''Elizabeth Kirby'': //Chapters on trees//. 1873 London:\\ »It is called the Travellers' tree (Ravenala Madagascariensis), because of the relief it affords to the weary and thirsty wayfarer. It rises from the ground with a thick succulent stem, like that of the Banana, and sends out long sword-shaped leaves from the top in the same way, only they are less fragile. The leaves do not surround the stem, but are placed opposite each other in two lines, so that when they are fully extended, the tree presents the appearance of a huge open fan. There are twenty-four of these bright green gigantic leaves, that spread out at the top of the stem, and the effect is very striking.\\
+Ihre Eigenschaft als natürlicher [[wiki:wasserbehaelter|Wasserspeicher]] wurde von den Reisenden geschätzt, von späteren Autoren jedoch angezweifelt, weil das sich darin ansammelnde Regenwasser alles andere als sauber sei. Übersehen wird dabei, dass wiederholt beschrieben wird, wie das Wasser nach dem //Anstechen// des Pflanzenstengels ausströmt. Die austretende Flüssigkeit wird als milchig mit leichtem Bananengeschmack beschrieben, als immer kühl und erfrischend ((z.B.: ''Mary'' and ''Elizabeth Kirby'': //Chapters on trees//. 1873 London:\\ »It is called the Travellers' tree (Ravenala Madagascariensis), because of the relief it affords to the weary and thirsty wayfarer. It rises from the ground with a thick succulent stem, like that of the Banana, and sends out long sword-shaped leaves from the top in the same way, only they are less fragile. The leaves do not surround the stem, but are placed opposite each other in two lines, so that when they are fully extended, the tree presents the appearance of a huge open fan. There are twenty-four of these bright green gigantic leaves, that spread out at the top of the stem, and the effect is very striking.\\
 In places where the trees grow abundantly, they form a conspicuous object for miles together, and, if the brilliant and shining leaves were not split up by the breeze, their magnificence could hardly be described. The stalk of each leaf is six or seven feet long, and the broad leaf itself six or eight feet more. The stalks which bear the flowers are shorter and of a stout woody structure. Each flower-stalk bears six or eight pointed sheaths, rigid and stiff in their nature, and filled with numerous erect white flowers, the petals of which are rather more than half a foot in length. The seeds are in pods and enclosed in a tough, firm spathe, like the husks of the cocoa-nut. When the seed-vessels are ripe they burst, and each pod sends forth thirty or forty seeds, in shape like a small bean, but enveloped in a silky fibre of a brilliant blue or purple. A specimen of these beautiful seeds has been brought to England, and is in the museum at Kew.\\
 The great benefit of the Travellers' tree is the supply of water it yields, even in the season of drought, when all other sources fail. It is like a well of water springing up in the desert. The base of the leaf-stalk forms a natural cavity or cistern to hold the water; which trickles, during the rainy season, down the smooth surface of the leaf into it. The cistern becomes quite full and remains so; indeed, it never fails the traveller. He has only to thrust a lance or spear into one of the numerous leaf-stalks, and out will gush a clear cool stream. It never becomes heated, for the rays of the sun cannot reach its retreat, and it is most grateful amid the fatigues of journeying in a tropical clime. The natives of the country have constant recourse to these vegetable cisterns. When they are working near the spot they bring their drinking vessels to the tree to replenish, and are saved the trouble of fetching water from the stream.\\