Last day, while I was visiting my wildlife biologist colleague Dr. P.O. Nameer's up coming house, I saw the dracula on an young teak (T. grandis) tree.
Two days later, at Patturaickal junction in Thrissur town, I was amazed to find white coloured "cannon ball" fruits. Cannon ball fruits are produced by the cannon ball tree Couropita guianensis. The brown, giant round fruits look like the original cannon balls, hence the name.
This dracula is not of the Bromstoker variety, but the mealy bug (see my earlier posts on this vampire) that has become a concern here in Kerala state, India this summer. Starting with Carica pappaya, they moved to Hibiscus rosa sinensis, to some other plants and now teak and the cannon ball tree.
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