Why does MongoDB have a green leaf as a logo?

I've been wondering this for a while. It seems about as far away from "humongous", as a symbol, (which for those who didn't know, is where the name "mongo" came from "hu-mongo-us") as you can get. :-)

Anyone know the answer?

Developing applications is supposed to seem more "natural" with MongoDB than with a relational database. So when we were coming up with logos, the leaf emerged :)

Hope that this helps!

Ah! So it isn't about the database as a database, but more like a more natural datastore for the developer. 

Ok. So if we took this analogy a little further (and humor me on this), we could also imagine this leaf is on an pear tree (avoiding the analogy with an apple tree on purpose;-) Don't need any trademark disputes with you know who! LOL! Oh, and the Mongo leaf looks more like a pear tree leaf than an apple tree leaf anyway. Yes, I just went and looked that up in Google! LOL!), the leaves are the developer and the pears are the datastores, the mongoDB instances. So, "natural photosynthesis" = coding produces big, sweet and juicy fruits = databases. Yeah, I like that analogy.;)

Oh, and the truth is: Developing applications with MongoDB IS more natural than with RDBMSes. ;-)