The pictures I've seen of the fragrans Massangeana don't match up. The trunk of this tree is maybe three inches and the leaves are about 36 inches coming up from the trunk, like a snake plant grows straight up.

That looks like an amazing trip was had! All the photos are wonderful and the cats are grand in their natural environment. My favorite though, is "Sisters." :) Thank you very much for sharing! MichaelAT

As suggested by another poster, I think the lack of sightings is more due to the shy nature of the coral snake then the scarcity of them. I have seen three of them on my property since I moved here in 1988. All of the snakes were under something I was moving. The most recent encounter was in April of this year when I was leveling an area in a shrub bed that I was preparing to pour some concrete to serve as a slab base foundation for the battery bank for my solar power system. I was hitting some of the old plastic weed barrier which was covered with river rock. My rake hooked the plastic and peeled up a bit of it and a small coral popped out of there. He really was small an beautiful. In my moment of ponder about what to do with this deadly little creature, it was all the time the little fellow needed to slither into a very thick arborvitae. I just hope my dogs never run into it. The chocolate lab in particular is a perpetual puppy even though she's three and a half!

I was poised for a photo of rat snakes all waiting for you to toss seed to them.Joking of course.