Paco Dennis
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Spotted this interesting tree
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Judycat
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Looks like a Bristlecone Pine.
feywon
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- Rural North Central NM
feywon
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Reminds me of this one i took along the Vedauwoo hiking trails in WY. Call it 'The Odd Couple'
katlupe
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This is not my photo either but one I shared yesterday on fakebook. I love trees and can spend hours looking at them.
From The Fabulous Weird Trotter: Inosculation is a natural phenomenon in which trunks, branches or roots of two trees grow together. It is biologically similar to grafting and such trees are referred to in forestry as gemels, from the Latin word meaning "a pair".
From him again: "The phenomenon called "the shyness of the crown" where the trees incredibly avoid touching."
Now I will be searching in the forest for trees like this.
From The Fabulous Weird Trotter: Inosculation is a natural phenomenon in which trunks, branches or roots of two trees grow together. It is biologically similar to grafting and such trees are referred to in forestry as gemels, from the Latin word meaning "a pair".
From him again: "The phenomenon called "the shyness of the crown" where the trees incredibly avoid touching."
Now I will be searching in the forest for trees like this.
katlupe
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I take it that you love trees too????Wow! All of these trees are amazing.
Thank you, all of you, for these posts!
@katlupe
Please let us know if you find any, like those!!!!!!!
And take about a hundred photos of them, to post for us!
jujube
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A picture does no justice to the "walking trees" of the Amazon. You'd have to have a stop-action movie over the course of a year. They can "walk" up to 30 inches a year by putting new roots in the front and letting the back roots die off. They're perpetually moving toward sunnier areas.
That would make a great George Romero-esque movie.... "Night of the Walking Trees". "EDNA, EDNA, THAT TREE'S GONNA GET YOU'" "DON'T WORRY, FRED, I HAVE TIME TO DO THE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING, WRAP THE GIFTS, ROAST THE TURKEY, AND TAKE DOWN THE DECORATIONS BEFORE I HAVE TO START WORRYING!"
That would make a great George Romero-esque movie.... "Night of the Walking Trees". "EDNA, EDNA, THAT TREE'S GONNA GET YOU'" "DON'T WORRY, FRED, I HAVE TIME TO DO THE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING, WRAP THE GIFTS, ROAST THE TURKEY, AND TAKE DOWN THE DECORATIONS BEFORE I HAVE TO START WORRYING!"
mellowyellow
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We have an odd looking tree in Australia called the Boab.
Boab prison tree 5km south-east of the remote north-western WA town of Derby.
But nobody knows how it got here because it's only living relative survives in far away Africa.
I have a Boab nut carved by an Aboriginal man when we visited Derby in Western Australia.
Boab prison tree 5km south-east of the remote north-western WA town of Derby.
But nobody knows how it got here because it's only living relative survives in far away Africa.
I have a Boab nut carved by an Aboriginal man when we visited Derby in Western Australia.
