For trees, lightning strikes are the great leveller. Stick your neck out by growing taller than the rest and you risk getting zapped into oblivion. Hundreds of millions of trees suffer this fate every year. But the opposite appears to be the case for the tonka bean tree, a native of the rainforests of Panama that grows up to 130 feet tall and lives for hundreds of years. Lightning is a weapon in its arsenal, and it wields it masterfully. For when an opportune lightning strike comes, the tonka tr