We have two winners! Our friends Jennifer and Flora have both identified this as a Cannonball Tree or Couroupita guianensis. It's not a parasite but a tree that carries its fruit close to the trunk. The big round ripe fruit fall and can do some damage hence the connonball reference.
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couroupita_guianensis
Isn't this the cannonball flower?
ReplyDeleteYou are right!
ReplyDelete