Midnight Horror

In late 2005 I collected seeds of the plant known rather sinisterly as the "Midnight Horror" (top pic : winged seeds). This plant was growing just outside the town of Kuala Pilah in Malaysia. Back home in Singapore, the seeds germinated and now there is a sapling Midnight Horror growing in The Garden. Can't wait to see how it will grow into the tree that Paul Theroux described in his book The Consul's File as ".. a tall simple pole like an enormous coat-rack, with big leaves that looked like branches - but there were very few of them. It was covered with knobs, stark black things; and around the base of the trunk there were always fragments of leaves that looked like shattered bones, but not human bones."