The Singing Bird Returns: Ailanthes integrifolia

Here I am
Born to fly
A little bird
Returning
Singing
Beneath
A tree
Of my Heart
Aglee.

Footnote: The seed was amongst the many I searched for and found in March 2016 in MacRitchie forest. These were immediately sown and nurtured by the wonderful team of workers at Pasir Panjang Nursery. I subsequently planted out a 1.5m tall sapling in Pulau Ubin in January 2018. It has since rocketed four times in height - photo above recorded in August 2019. The blog post reporting the finding of the winged seeds can be found here.