{"id":3710,"date":"2018-05-20T17:55:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T22:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/?p=3710"},"modified":"2018-05-26T18:10:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T23:10:44","slug":"how-a-talipot-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/?p=3710","title":{"rendered":"How a Talipot Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 2010, just a few months after we arrived in Yaounde to work at Rain Forest, our agriculture missionary friend Paul planted a very rare palm &#8212; one of the largest in the world. The Talipot Palm. It didn&#8217;t look like much then.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3711\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3711\" style=\"width: 433px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/?attachment_id=3711\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3711\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3711\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2018\/05\/2018-05-talipot-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2018\/05\/2018-05-talipot-2.jpg 433w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2018\/05\/2018-05-talipot-2-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One leaf sticking out of the ground in 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now, May 2018, it has grown incredibly large, and still has not developped a solid trunk. 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