Treezybreez
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- Lancaster, SC
The giant Kapok tree. It has the best view in the Amazon, toucans nest in it's branches, and it catches the slightest breeze.
If I were a tree, I’d be a...
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RyanCafferky
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- Hood River, Oregon
Exactly what I was thinking. Or Leland cypress
Leland Cypress??? Do you fall over easily? I’m totally kidding, but there’s likely a difference in their viability between the two coasts. Over here in the Northeast, they are super prone to uprooting.
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- Retired in Minneapolis
In a dialog between Captain Jack Aubrey
[Master and Commander] and his surgeon/naturalist particular friend he says:
Dr. Stephen Maturin: Jack, I fear you have burdened me with a debt I can never fully repay.
Capt. Jack Aubrey: Nonsense! Name a shrub after me. Something prickly and hard to eradicate.
Dr. Stephen Maturin: A shrub? Nonsense! I shall name a new species of tortoise after you: Testudo Aubreii!
[Master and Commander] and his surgeon/naturalist particular friend he says:
Dr. Stephen Maturin: Jack, I fear you have burdened me with a debt I can never fully repay.
Capt. Jack Aubrey: Nonsense! Name a shrub after me. Something prickly and hard to eradicate.
Dr. Stephen Maturin: A shrub? Nonsense! I shall name a new species of tortoise after you: Testudo Aubreii!
evo
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- My Island, WA
That sounds horrible! I actually like them when not previously topped or headed back in the nursery, and planted in a open field. Both VERY rare occasions. Damn hybrid vigor
RyanCafferky
Been here a while
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- Hood River, Oregon
I wasn't referring to myself. My post was in response to a response to Rico's comment about being the red headed step child of the tree world... I can't imagine a more unwanted half breed than a Leland.
Like so many species, they are best when standing in a place in which they can fully express their natural habit. My brother has a special way of pronouncing “arborvitae” which sounds like arbur-vee-tai. Gosh, spelling particular pronoun citations is a real task. Anyway, he basically hates arb hedgerows, and I don’t much disagree with him. But give me a big, stand-alone arborvitae and I’ll give you a thumbs up.
Heck yes. How old would you figure?
evo
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- My Island, WA
That looks like a exelsa cedar. Cultivar of western red cedar aka Thjua plicata ‘exelsa’. Damn things tend to revert around here
Here’s an example of what a real western red with character looks like. Excuse the wide angle, only way I could get the tree in one shot.
climbingmonkey24
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- United States
It is interesting sometimes to look at trees that have these weird growth patterns in the trunk, etc. Like in @evo pic, why did it decide to elbow out like that ya know?
evo
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- My Island, WA
I can tell you why if you are interested.
cerviarborist
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- Location
- Florida, USA
Dhalbergia retusa (Cocobolo) Because when I die, my body will be turned into sweet sets of badass nunchucks.
evo
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- My Island, WA
No….
Well ok. Tree grew on a nurse log, which rotted away and it tipped over nearly 45 degrees. Western red cedar has weak apical control but strong apical dominance. The main trunk phototropized (I don’t care for spelling right now). And a lower limb hooked up into a second top, got big and heavy and compressed downward as it grew vertically
evo
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- My Island, WA
Ive always been tempted to do this in neighborhoods with tree hight ordances
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