This is a cedro. I was very surprised to discover that some trees here drop their leaves in the winter. This tree was obviously very happy - grew about 10 feet in 6 months. Then dropped it's leaves. I thought it was dying, but no - that's what it does. Goes dormant for a while. I guess the broad leafed trees that go dormant in winter that I am used to in Canada have to have come from somewhere. I thought that it would have been something that the trees developed because the winters were too cold and their type of leaf couldn't take freezing. But here in the land of eternal summer ......

Tree names here are not the same as the tree names I am used to. Many pretty well unrelated trees will have the same name. With lumber trees I think it is because the lumber is similar. With fruit trees I think it is because the fruit is similar. I have seen at least 2 other types of cedro which aren't the same. Cedro is a beautiful wood. Maybe it's one of the mahoganies.

And here is a young Nispero. Again there are at least 3 very different trees called Nispero. They will be a hardwood that can take a lot of getting wet and drying again. I have done almost all my building with this and another related wood, Chingongo.

They tell me this is a good lumber tree when it is older. I didn't catch the name.

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