A mountainous landscape, Sri Lanka

Gordon Cumming wrote of the bread-fruit tree, which features prominently in the foreground of the present work: ‘… the bread-fruit trees, with their masses of dark-green foliage and large pale-green fruit nestling beneath separate crowns of splendid glossy leaves, deeply indented. I have measured a good many of these leaves, and found some on young trees which actually measured 3 feet 2 inches by 2 feet 4 inches, while others on older trees averaged 21 to 25 inches in length. Each of these great leaves act as a mirror to reflect the light, so that the bread-fruit casts no great depth of shadow (Artocarpus incisa).’ (Ibid, p.118-19).