Artificial palm tree comes of age in the Polish capital
AFP, WARSAW
Tropical is not a word that springs to mind when talking about the gray Polish capital, yet, a fake palm tree towering over downtown Warsaw has firmly taken root in the city’s landscape and affections and is even a popular postcard landmark.
Standing aloft a busy central roundabout, the artificial tree began life 18 years ago as an art project and now provides an exotic rallying point for many social causes.
It has donned a giant nursing cap in solidarity with protesting nurses, been turned into the Greek island of Lesbos and had its leaves plucked off by anarchists.