Cannonball Tree (Couroupita guianensis) Though native to South America, the Cannonball Tree has been naturalized in India and holds religious significance in many regions. Its large, fragrant ...

"I felt that Cannonball's blues-rooted alto sax up against Trane's harmonic ... When Charlie Parker died at 34 in 1955, it was as if an ancient tree fell in the forest with the resulting sunlight ...

Rodney Presbyterian Church, located in a Mississippi ghost town, is famous for a cannonball lodged in its facade. The cannonball is not from the Civil War shelling the church endured, as commonly ...