Traveler's Palm or Traveler's Tree is what it is called. My discovery: "Hey, it's got a flower!" Not a palm. Indeed, a tree, kin to the banana plant and bird-of-paradise varieties. For lack of the obvious colorful flowers one might expect in a resort I was forced to scrutinize whatever was there. And I was taken by surprise. Never knew that this huge fan-like plant had flowers of its own.
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
