Matias
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- Butte County
my wife, daughter, and her friends under a big Quercus lobata that's leaned over onto several of it's lower branches. A favorite climb of mine for sure.
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my wife, daughter, and her friends under a big Quercus lobata that's leaned over onto several of it's lower branches. A favorite climb of mine for sure.Shadowscape
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Looks like it would be a hoot to play around in.
flushcut
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- Delavan, WI
Lovely tree!
chiselbit
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What tree?
MA Arborist
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What tree??
Bendroctanus
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- Springfield
I think that’s considered lucky. Maybe you should go get a lottery ticket??
Cool find! Your son has a good eye.
Shadowscape
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They seem to show up on the sugar maples in my yard quite a bit. Don't know the reason for it however.
evo
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I tend to see them once every few years in big leaf maples.
data farm 26
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data farm 26
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It's a pair of old hand pruners grown into the tree somehow.
AdkEric
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Interesting (to me) graft I found at work today.
I'm not sure what forced the tree in the lower picture to grow like that, maybe an old blowdown, but a gentle tug indicated the top was firmly set in the ground. It is sprouting upwards now. The perseverance of trees never ceases to amaze me. Not sure on genus/species. Swampy low lying area. Salix maybe?
I'm not sure what forced the tree in the lower picture to grow like that, maybe an old blowdown, but a gentle tug indicated the top was firmly set in the ground. It is sprouting upwards now. The perseverance of trees never ceases to amaze me. Not sure on genus/species. Swampy low lying area. Salix maybe?
evo
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- My Island, WA
The first photo looks like two wildly different species, so very unlikely to be a graft. Probably tied together pretty well though!
That little whip is rad, I’ll find things like that where the top got pinned by a fallen something, then roots. Willow is great at this, as well as vine maple, and western red cedar in my area.
Shadowscape
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- far north
We get quite a few of the ones in the bend over photo. Snow load bends the saplings down and some of them stay there. Then the suckers start growing upward. I have a few black ash ones like that along my driveway, and me plowing five foot snow drifts on top of them probably contribute quite a bid to them staying down like that. The ones around here don't seem to live all that long. Maybe get 3-4" in diameter and then die off. The white cedar saplings get bent over but seem to manage to straighten themselves back up by the end of summer. Other, not so much.
Interesting mating of the two odd trees.
AdkEric
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- Adirondacks
Thanks for the info!! Very different species indeed, I wasn't sure what to call it.
I bookmarked the location of the little whip on my GPS, I'm hoping to visit it regularly to see how it progresses.
Winchman
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- Southwest Georgia
I found this pine mess in the yard the other day, but I've no idea which tree it fell from. I wish I had seen it alive.
Matias
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- Butte County
Pine gall?
Winchman
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- Southwest Georgia
This is on a pine in neighbor's yard. The gash spirals around the tree at the same depth several feet above and below what's shown.
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