The base of a giant tree species which ranges from Nicaragua to Peru under names such as Cuipo, Pijio and Macondo. Photo from Barro Colorado Island, Panama.
Cuipo trees rising above the Chucunaque River in the Darien of Panama. They need thick trunks, as they have the softest known wood. These are called Macondo in Colombia, name source for the magic-realist village, central to Gabriel Garcia's book 'Hundred Years of Solitude'.
