Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world. To the world it is only for its love of music, the carnival and the samba. It is very rich on wildlife. The Amazon rainforest alone has so many unique species. The forests have many unusual tree species. It has vast resources of mineral such as iron ore, gold, diamonds, manganese, nickel and bauxite. Fast flowing rivers are used to generate 90% of the country electricity.

The collection of trees Erlandson planted includes no normal specimens. Each grows in a bizarre and fantastic pattern. Some trees have branches that loop; others have double trunks that spiral around each other or cross in zigzags. One has a single trunk that grows into nine “legs”; another has multiple trunks that regularly part and rejoin in a lacelike pattern.