Canary Pine Growing in a Wall

Most places, this could be seen as a problem, but I love this photo and the implications. In the city of La Laguna in Tenerife, a Canary Pine is growing in the wall of an old building.

So, they name it the Cafetería Pino (Pine Cafe) and let the tree get on with the business of growing.

... and becoming a wonderful, novel, "green" tourist attraction.

In it's natural habitat, the Canary Pine tree grows on some pretty steep terrain, so I guess it makes little difference to the tree, whether it lives on a cafe wall or up in the La Esperanza forest. All I can't, as yet, tell you, is what street it's on, but I have a feeling someone will know and tell us.

Photo: locodesmara via the Secret Tenerife (Pool) All rights reserved.

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 Bard of Ely wrote (on August 09, 2008 10:21 PM)  

I don't know the name of the street but I remember seeing that tree growing in the wall back in 2002 when I first came here on holiday and I took a photo of it thinking how unusual it was.