Tuesday, 12 August 2008

Nareepol Tree

Can anyone tell me if this is for real. It's hard to believe and I think it's fake. The accompanying text with this video is:

This is amazing tree named Nareepol in Thai. NAREE means Woman or Girl and POL means Bush/Plant/Tree or buah in Malay. It means women tree. You can see the real tree at Petchaboon province about almost 500 kms away from Bangkok.



(via J-Walk Blog)

7 comment(s):

Anonymous said...

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/nareepol-tree.shtml

Of course it's a fake. Why is this on The Presurfer? I'd expect better.

HA HA HA

Minnesotastan said...

I believe a little fuller explanation is warranted. I found the following today on the "Hindi Blog reporter"...

"The picture pertains to Naree phol (and not Naree Pol) which is actually a mythological story of sort in which a Naree phol (quite like Sanskrit..it means women-fruit) interacts with a servant. Do look at this painting. It is taken from here and comment by artist explain the whole thing..."

(more details at this url.. http://shabdashilp.blogspot.com/2008/04/is-naree-pol-or-naree-phol-image-fraud.html)

Gerard said...

Thanks for the additional information.

Oh, and it's on The Presurfer because it's weird.

Anonymous said...

Of course its fake, what kind of question is that?

Gerard said...

It's a normal question. The kind that invites or calls for a reply.
Which you just did.

Anonymous said...

We have something similar in the Brazil: the 'Chuchu' (Only the Frenchmen are able to pronounce this name like the Brazilians, so, don't try it).
Also it looks like a woman, but it is more fat than it.

Carsten Kroghsbo said...

We have just bought 2 fruits in Thailand. We bought it from an old women who have bought it from the people in the mountains. With a little imagination, it looks like a man and a woman, and no doudt it is some kind of a fruit. Man made or natually who knows. I will try to find out.