it has a special growth characteristic in that it has a tip of growth that the botanists call a meristem. once the plant uses that he said growth, it cannot survive. you cannot take a cutting from the contrary in the same way that you could -- from that palm tree from the same with that you could a psych had an generate a tree. iconic plants that people who come to visit washington, d.c. may not have seen and living plant form. people are familiar with them as products. one of the most wonderful is this tree here. this is the chocolate tree. the latin name is a oprah mica cow. -- they'll grow much how cow -- now grown all over the tropics for commercial chocolate production. the plant is not have any of the fruit or cocoa pods on it, which are what are harvested and processed make chocolate. this tree produces flowers out of the trunk of the plant. there are -- they are quite interesting because it is a different presentation in terms of location for the flower. we love to pollinate this plant so it can produce chocolate pods unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you look at it