A row of pokok tanjung in Pdg Brown.jpg)
Pokok tanjung at Pdg Brown near public toilet
Pokok Tanjong....and tanjong is the malay name for that part of Penang island we now called georgetown.....the State used to have visiting dignitaries plant it at the Esplanade.....go and see it.......
The tree is a shortish kind of tree with a heavy and low branching habit....it casts a very stong shade......to get an optimal height of trunk (say about six feet high)...one should always prune it.....The tree have small heavily scented yellow flowers......in my younger days this tree like the frangipani always evoke memories of graveyards......maybe it is the heavy fragrance....
Nowadays, it is not unusual to find......vagrants under the pokok tanjung....the cool shade...seems to attract the down and out of georgetown to take refuge under it....
Underneath a pokok tanjong......lies the down and out......sleeping away the pains of rejection......in a blissful world of dreams......to awake is to enter the world of the harsh and brutal......so sleep on......
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