A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Paradox 1 key example

In the following example of paradox from Chapter 1, the narrator notes that some people in Williamsburg call the "green umbrella" tree a "Tree of Heaven":

The one tree in Francie's yard was neither a pine nor a hemlock. It had pointed leaves which grew along green switches which radiated from the bough and made a tree which looked like a lot of opened green umbrellas. Some people called it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps and it was the only tree that grew out of cement. It grew lushly, but only in the tenements districts.

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