Nuts and Nut trees and other trees Feb 22

 Hawaii has lots of trees.

One of the trees is the coconut tree. It produces a fruit (actually a fibrous single seed drupe). Accidents have happened and people have brought lawsuits after being bonked on the head. Hence the sign on the bottom of the tree in image 1.

Banyan trees have been planted along the scenic drives in several islands. The banyan is enormous and grows from branches. The one in image 2 (from the internet) was planted by Babe Ruth (other famous people  planted banyan trees as well).

The third image is a macadamia tree. We went to a macadamia nut factory on this tour. Hersheys owns the factory (but a trust of some sort owns the trees). This is about the only profitable agriculture still in Hawaii as almost all the pineapples and sugar cane plantations have been abandoned (some are still in operation to preserve the low taxes for farm land while hoping to eventually sell the land for development).