Weird and unusual tree shapes

Sean Freeman

I used to collect these annual publications from Indiana Department of Natural Resources' Division of Forestry but haven't for a few years, I think the guy driving it has since left, pleasantly surprised to find they are all downloadable for nix now

Hope some of you guys enjoy them as much as I do, also check out the great explainations at the back.

invasion2002.pdf

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Eric Frei

That was good how you got explanations at the end, nice find.

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TreeCo

Nice collection of weird trees.

Eric Frei

This is a paperbark in Daisy Hill Koala park.

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Mike Poor

Thanks for posting. I love looking at stuff like that!

jim1nz

A young Redwood in Rotarua, NZ

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Eric Frei

Hey Jim, that tree is screwed.

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yooper

Cool photo of the twisted red wood. Im working on a walking stick with a cool twist in it. I fount it on my property last year and let it dry. its just a little somthing i do to keep me a little sane in the winter time while im enjoying that golden elixer This stick is maple and had a wild grape vine growing around it which made its shape.


This is a popple tree i used rope on a few years back to munipulate it just for fun.

Here are a few of my sanity sticks iv worked on this winter and one of the wood burning on one of them.


I love all the oddball photos posted so far.

Brother Colin

If I need a walking stick permanently I now know who to contact.

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Eric Frei

I finally pulled over and got this sussed today. See the crack on the top of it in pic 4?

It obviously blew over long time ago, there's a slight mound of soil near the base but it powered on.

I wonder why it sort of got that flat look to it, usually they'd go egg shaped but that shape aint giving it better strength.

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Sean Freeman

The flat spot/area may be due to some form of necrosis....what sort of tree is it Ekka?

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Eric Frei

My vote is Angophora leiocarpa (smooth barked apple) over a spotty gum, has that slight orange look but the leaves were to far up to see if they were opposites vs alternates.

But my instinct says smooth barked apple.

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TrevMcRev

Now i'm not too sure what these 2 trees are up to, but i think this is where baby pine tree saplings come from.

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Juno

hahah lol that's a realy good one.

I got some pics on my work. if I can I will post them to

Sean Freeman

Just came accross these on the Tree Logic website, pretty funny, do you think he trying to tell us all something??







Here's the site http://treelogic.com.au/facts/?p=26

Juno

I wont put my chain in that trunk

allmarktree

Hows this

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allmarktree

Oh! the good looking one is on the right

allmarktree

A biggie

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Eric Frei

I hope that customer really appreciates and looks after that tree, it makes the place and is a ripper.

Great pic

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allmarktree

Ekka...Unfortunately it is not being taken care of. It is in Pittsburgh. I saw newspaper articles the neighbor had with pics of the man that started it. after his death the area slowly became a lower income area with little care.

Sean Freeman

That's a stroy that is all too familiar check this guys' history out...realy like the comparison shots between the trees earlier and much later. http://www.arborsmith.com/treecircus.html
Just google circus trees to get heaps more info

TrevMcRev

Now thats all a bit too kooky edward scissorhand like for me!

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osb_mail

This is me at my local arboretum the tree is a Fagus grandifolia .

Eric Frei

I'm not saying out loud what that tree trunk looks like!

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osb_mail

Yeah I should climb up there and stick my head in it for a really funny picture .

mdvaden

Here's one - think I've figured out its cause. It's about 100 feet away from the biggest Sitka spruce in the USA, near Seaside, Oregon.

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Eric Frei

Nice, surprised that wasn't a B&W pic, how old are you in that photo?

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Sean Freeman

Could it be.......Pinus envy .......sorry but that one just jumped in my head.

mdvaden

That's my son.

Some similarities in skin and eye color

He's also iin this image of a fallen tree at Ecola State Park at Oregon's oceanside.

Some of these images were taken in the winter, and with clouds at the ocean, plus the mist and fog, many photos are a bit darker like B&W - almost cloaks the color.

I find that many trees I see, and some of my photos, have clues. The curved tree trunk in the image, was alive when the massive tree was still upright. You can tell from the small tree's lower trunk, that it was relatively aligned with the big tree. Then the big tree uprooted the small one and tilted it, then the little guy curved upward with new growth.

On the other hand, the other small trees growing in the rootball, germinated and grew after the big tree fell. The curved one probably wasn't any bigger than a 4" stem when the big tree fell, is my guess.

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