I grew up playing around our old neighborhood surrounded by Talisay (Tropical almond) trees. My sister insists one of the trees at the river at our farm was Talisay. I couldn't quite agree with the leaves looking so similar to the Botong-botong (Barringtonia asiatica) tree. I never saw it bore fruit. A day in March proved my sister right. All the leaves turned red and next to it the Botong-botong leaves remained green. It was a wonderful delight. I wasn’t able to write a poem about it but I remembered that I could never write one as lovely as a Talisay tree.