Twisted tree

[Treelimbjim]

This picture is a tree growing near the campus. I suspect it didn't grow naturally this way.

 

[TreeCo]

Neat tree. Is it a mulberry?

It looks like it might have grown through a property line fence.

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

If it didn't grow naturally that way. Someone had a lot of time on their hands to twist that thing. /forum/images/graemlins/bangtard.gif

 

[Kevin]

That's what happens when they grow up through a dog turd.

 

[Treelimbjim]

Indeed, it is a Mulberry.

 

[scott_baker]

In my experience this twisyterd shape is not uncommon in mulberry. When you see it in other trees I have been told that it occurs in two ways one is genetic the other is repeated loading from wind...usually a one sided shape contributes.