On this date in 2023, Sierra Leone's symbolic Cotton Tree was felled by a storm:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65707394
"Sierra Leone's iconic cotton tree felled by storm"
by := Umaru Fofana in Freetown & Robert Greenall in London
date := 2023-05-25
"Sierra Leone’s symbolic Cotton Tree falls during storm in Freetown -- Centuries-old Ceiba pentandra marked where formerly enslaved people had prayed upon arrival in west Africa"
by := Agence France-Presse in Freetown
date := 2023-05-25
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Tree_(Sierra_Leone)
"On 24 May 2023, a heavy rain storm felled the cotton tree with only the lower part of its enormous trunk still standing."