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===Trees=== The trees growing out of the ruins are perhaps the most distinctive feature of Ta Prohm, and "have prompted more writers to descriptive excess than any other feature of Angkor."<ref name="Freeman and Jacques, p.136"/> Two species predominate, but sources disagree on their identification: the larger is either the silk-cotton tree (''[[Ceiba pentandra]]'') or thitpok ''[[Tetrameles nudiflora]]'',<ref name="dun">Dehra Dun, [http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080614/nation.htm#8 "ASI to conserve trees at Cambodian temple"], 13 June 2008, ''The Tribune'', Chandigarh, India, accessed 2009-05-09</ref> and the smaller is either the [[strangler fig]] (''[[Ficus gibbosa]]'')<ref>Freeman and Jacques, p.137.</ref> or gold apple (''[[Diospyros decandra]]'').<ref name="dun" /> Angkor scholar [[Maurice Glaize]] observed, "On every side, in fantastic over-scale, the trunks of the silk-cotton trees soar skywards under a shadowy green canopy, their long spreading skirts trailing the ground and their endless roots coiling more like reptiles than plants."<ref>Glaize, pp.143-145.</ref>
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