The Lime Tree No One Remembers Planting

Michel Salas was making his way through the sanctuary when he came across it: a lime tree (*Citrus × aurantiifolia*) that someone, at some point, on some day no one can quite pin down, had planted here. It stands at coordinates 10.4475, -75.2618, within the grounds of the Fundación Loros sanctuary, wrapped in lush tropical vegetation, with pink and red buganvilias drifting across the background as if they had something to whisper to the blue sky of that March afternoon. There is no planting date. No name of whoever put it there. Only the tree — still and deeply rooted, its glossy leaves sifting the late afternoon light, indifferent to the mystery of its own origins. There is something quietly moving about that: that someone, at some moment, chose to plant a lime tree in this corner of the sanctuary, and that the tree simply kept on growing, never needing anyone to remember. It is now on record. If anyone knows who planted it, and when, the logbook has room for that story.