Tree oddities

[evo]

We all have the ideal picture of a species of tree in their mind. A English oak with a wide crown architecture, or a western hemlock with a floppy terminal. On and on..
here are a few “old growth shrub forms” of Douglas Fir. From the oldgrowth left on the island that have done ring counts on, they are about 470 years old.
The edge trees were nothing other than wind blown 20-40’ evergreen shrubs, but less than 100’ in 80’s were the taller ones.

What are the oddities in your area?

 

[SeanRuel]

Elm in the stone

 

[Basswood]

A weird chameocyparis from an inventory I was working on.

 

[JD3000]

Crazy dwarf Hinoki there!

 

[Njdelaney]

Oh man I better start taking pictures. I have lots of weird ones to share.

 

[Basswood]

Crazy dwarf Hinoki there!

There was some bigger ones with a large burl of a root stock like this but this one was just too cool. It’s crazy to contemplate the age of this thing. It’s not ancient but it’s not young either. This is from a post revolutionary war cemetery, although I’m sure the Hinokis were planted much later.

 

[chiselbit]

Man this server error bs annoys me. I can never post a picture

 

[Treezybreez]

Elm in the stoneView attachment 79814

Let me guess, it's a rock elm?

 

[Treezybreez]

Found this in our church parking lot.

 

[Treezybreez]

Two white oaks grafted together by one branch. Before I knew it was grafted, I repelled down and landed on the branch. It didn't respond like branches usually do and then I was blown away by the graft.

 

[Treezybreez]

Oh, and both trunk/branch unions had a branch collar!

 

[neums]

A local person has already done everyone the service of documenting, designing, and printing an excellent map of "odditrees:"

(no title)

Exploring the peculiar nature of Austin since 2013

odditreesociety.org

Some businesses in town put out the hard copies for free distribution. I was once honored after being asked to review one of the editions for informational consistency before it went to print. It's a great tool for curating tree walks around town.

 

[evo]

A local person has already done everyone the service of documenting, designing, and printing an excellent map of "odditrees:"

(no title)

Exploring the peculiar nature of Austin since 2013

odditreesociety.org

Some businesses in town put out the hard copies for free distribution. I was once honored after being asked to review one of the editions for informational consistency before it went to print. It's a great tool for curating tree walks around town.

Well, rock is officially dead

 

[27RMT0N]

Man, I've got so many 'odd tree' photos from around me, I'll try and do some digging at some point. Here is a crazy one though, unfortunately a removal after years of hesitation and worry on the owners part, but probably the wildest fir I've ever climbed.

 

[neums]

Well, rock is officially dead

Beaten by paper?

 

[Chris Schultz]

Not an oddity per say, and without digging through thousands of photos, here’s a hemlock stump displaying some impressive CODIT in my opinion….. Germain Hemlocks state Natural Area near Hayward Wisconsin.

 

[Chris Schultz]

Peculiar specimen at UW arboretum.

 

[Reach]

This one is a favorite oddity of mine, if memory serves it is a Black Cherry and a Black Gum quite intertwined and actually grafted together, growing as one tree.

 

[Jehinten]

This customer calls these Holly trees his siamese twins.

 

[27RMT0N]

Here are a few firs around my house that I particularly enjoy. There are many more, but some of the coolest ones I just can't get even decent photos of.

Not odd, but a good side-by-side of a 'young' and straight doug fir compared to the old gnarled flat-top doug fir.



A twisty grand fir.



Natural bonzi doug fir, hard to get a decent photo of. It's growing on essentially bare rock, in a downward direction, maybe 8" at the thickest, ~3' 'tall' and probably well over 80 years old if I had to guess.



A sealed-over fir stump like Chris was talking about as well.



I'm not sure if this was a fir that had ground level limbs which were left and it was cut to a stump decades ago, but it's like 24" diameter, the stump is about that tall, and then it has those large moss covered limbs reaching 30' down the cliffside.