Flowering Orchards his friend Émile Bernard he provided more detail: "Here is another orchard, rather simple as a composition: a white tree, a small green tree, a square patch of green, lilac soil, an orange roof, a large blue sky." The Van Gogh Museum's version of "Orchard in Blossom" was painted in April. Vincent asked Theo to "shave off" some of the impasto in this painting. Apparently he did not reline, a process of heavy pressure and heat to flatten the surface, because sharp edges of thick impasto remain on the painting. Van Gogh painted "View of Arles, Flowering Orchards" in spring
Tree pangolin Tree pangolin The tree pangolin ("Phataginus tricuspis") is one of eight extant species of pangolins ("scaly anteaters"), and is native to equatorial Africa. Also known as the white-bellied pangolin or three-cusped pangolin, it is the most common of the African forest pangolins. "P. tricuspis" is a relatively small pangolin. The combined head and body length is . The tail is . Each scale has three points, to which the specific name "tricuspis" refers. The head is small, and the snout is elongated. The feet are short, and each foot has five long curved claws. The tree pangolin had belonged to