🍃 In Fresno’s sun, where orchards sleep,
A man once sowed a dream so deep.
Dr. Ray Allen, humble and wise,
☄️ Looked not just down — but to the skies.
With roots that whisper to the ground,
🌎 He found a tree not often found.
🍀 Not native, no — but nature-blessed,
🌼 A royal bloom, unlike the rest.
🌲 Three trees were blended, branch by leaf,
Through Stanford’s quiet, green belief.
🌱 A sterile seed, so it won’t roam —
Yet gives the earth a living home.
🐾 Its pods don’t spread in wild decree,
It honors rules of each state tree.
🐻 Even in California’s care,
It grows with grace — and leaves none bare.
🌬 The soil it heals, the sky it clears,
It answers prayers of future years.
And though the world has much to learn,
🌈 These trees give more than they could earn.
I walk like Muir among their shade,
And marvel at the life he made.
🌸Dr. Allen, like Appleseed,
Planted more than just a seed.
🌷 So raise your eyes and watch them grow,
From Fresno’s fields to winds that blow.
🔥 Thank Bio Economy for the flame
They keep alive — in Ray’s great name.
🍃 Let this tree’s truth at last be known:
The Empress stands where hope is grown.
An ode to a friend & Mentor -Dr. Ray Allen Inventor of the MegaFlora Paulownia Tree! 🌲
-Michael McCauley @ Neo Forest
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