When I first saw this specimen, the ground was littered with seed pods and I thought it was named "monkey hand tree" because the pods looked a little bit like they had fingers. Come to find out, it is the anthers that look like fingers, complete with fingernails. The tree is flowering now, and the "monkey hands" are laying around on the ground. The flowers are high in the tree and hard to photograph, but I tried. At least two of these trees grow at the UC Botanical Garden. One is near the front entrance, the other is in the Mexican section.
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