Amazing how a tree can grow around an obstacle.
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I drive by a Sycamore tree that has a piece of road guard rail engulfed in its trunk and it's about 12 feet up off the ground. Narrow street with a lot of traffic, there is really no way to stop to take a pic...
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This style
Yamamomiji
Mame
Indeed, there is.
I guess we have all seen roots bumping up the pavement, but this field maple couldn't care less (as do the City gardening and the owner luckily) ...
I guess we have all seen roots bumping up the pavement, but this field maple couldn't care less (as do the City gardening and the owner luckily) ...
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Erika_Leaman
Mame
Maybe not as obvious as trees which have fully engulfed other objects. But this eucalyptus in Inverewe Gardens, on the west coast of Scotland is pretty interesting, note how it has formed around the walls and path, it looks like it's melting.
Also take time to appreciate the scale too. This is a big tree!
Also take time to appreciate the scale too. This is a big tree!
Yamamomiji
Mame
@Erika_Leaman
What a great tree, almost like a raft.
It slowly conquers the land.
Besides that, I wonder: it seems to enjoy the Scottish weather, I was under the impression it needs warmer temperatures, especially getting so big (zone 9b at the coast?).
What a great tree, almost like a raft.
It slowly conquers the land.
Besides that, I wonder: it seems to enjoy the Scottish weather, I was under the impression it needs warmer temperatures, especially getting so big (zone 9b at the coast?).
Erika_Leaman
Mame
@Yamamomiji
The west coast here runs along side the gulf stream which creates a warmer (and wetter) enviroment, known as the Atlantic rain forest.
Logan botanical garden is another (though I've yet to visit) which benefits from this climate and allows their collection of exotic plants.
The west coast here runs along side the gulf stream which creates a warmer (and wetter) enviroment, known as the Atlantic rain forest.
Logan botanical garden is another (though I've yet to visit) which benefits from this climate and allows their collection of exotic plants.
Yamamomiji
Mame
Thank you, I reckoned something like this. Very interesting and definitely something on my list when going to Scotland (whenever that might be).
The zoning map I've found in this instance is probably too rough to show it.
Erika_Leaman
Mame
Do you mean areas like boarders, lowlands, Highlands etc?
Yamamomiji
Mame
Burl
Sapling
I am puzzeled about how this would happen withour human intervention as in my understand trees grow from the top.
I am puzzled about it myself, but it looks natural. My guess, the tree grew over the railing at the railing's normal height (maybe a car hit it and pushed it into the tree trunk) and then slowly grew higher and took the remnants of the railing with it.
Makes me want to find a way to stop somewhere nearby to walk to it and take a pic. This is on my alternate route home from work I take when highway is jammed and I am usually already PO'd and just want to get home...
I guess this would be a human interaction.
leatherback
The Treedeemer
this is not how trees grow. The tryunk does not push up. Only the growingtips of branches elongate
PA_Penjing
Chumono
I was always told that trees grow from only the tips. And it appears to be true. But I’ve always wondered why imbedded objects seem to slowly “grow up” the tree. Lore says this bike was chained to the tree in 1914(?) and the owner never came back from war. How did it get so high up? The only thing I can come up with is erosion. But that is far too much earth for that to be the answer. Plus the root base always seems to be in place
Yamamomiji
Mame
The Story Behind the Bicycle in the Tree on Vashon Island, WA - Update 2020
Many think the story of the bicycle in the tree on Vashon Island is of a boy who went off to war and left his bicycle - the real story is much different.
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Seems plausible with the bicycle stuck in a fork.
It was fused laterally but not from the bottom up.
So, how trees grow is still valid.
Ravaginggoatman
Yamadori
I totally see the bear. That was my first impression
Ravaginggoatman
Yamadori
That's an amazing image
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