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Never knew there were so many interesting trees in the world until I started looking.

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very nice topic. should be fun !

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Disneylands Fascinating Tree (not real but looks the part)

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Hey Martin ! somehow got into a do-loop … sort of a double duplicate post.. Anyways hope this works !!

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this could be weird:

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too cool !

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I just got done adding water effect to these 2 trees and posted them on my website. How ironic. This ought to be a really nice thread. I love trees, and have tons of pictures of them. I will be adding a couple every now and again.

Water Effect

Water Effect

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Now that is quite a post Allison.

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The Wollemi Pine
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The Wollemi Pine is one of the world’s oldest and rarest trees. It was discovered just 10 years ago by a bushwalker in a national park only 200km from Sydney, Australia’s biggest city.
A majestic conifer with attractive, unusual dark green foliage and bubbly bark, the Wollemi Pine can grow up to 40 metres high in the wild with a trunk diameter of over one metre.
The Pines can survive temperatures from 23-133°F (-5 to 45°C) and are expected to withstand even cooler temperatures. They are also responding well to low light indoor environments.
http://www.wollemipine.com/aboutwp.php

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these are coooool

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The Huon pine is Australia’s oldest living tree and is one of the oldest living organisms on earth.
Individuals have been known to reach an age of 3,000 years. Fossil records from a tree found
in a boggy area in the south west of Tasmania were dated at 3,462 years! (Carder A., 1995). Only
the bristle-cone pine of North America exceeds it in age.

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Pattern for my haunted forest tile carvings

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Strangler fig. Bird does dropping containg fig seed 20-30 feet up in a tree branch. Seed germinates & throws roots to ground. Tree then grows around the host tree & strangles it. Giant fig tree results with base of tree 20-30 feet above ground & a curtain of tree roots.

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Blast, all these interesting sounding trees and I cannot see them inside the firewall here. I guess just one more reason to read LJs when I get home!

-- "Checking for square? what madness is this! The cabinet is square because I will it to be so!" Jeremy Greiner LJ Topic#20953 2011 Feb 2

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ODIE, ARE YOU SURE THAT’S NOT BIG FOOT’S LEG

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QUEENSLAND BOTTLE TREE

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BAOBAB TREE
Massive tree, up to 20 meters tall and 12 meters in diameter is probably the best know African tree.
http://www.africantrees.com/details.asp?treeID=1

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PAPERBARK THORN
One of the typical flat-topped or umbrella-shaped acacias found in South Africa. The tree can reach up to 9m in height with a spread of about 15m. The most distinctive feature of this tree is the “corky” yellowish-brown bark which flakes in papery pieces.
http://www.africantrees.com/details.asp?treeID=12

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American Black Walnut

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This one is really amazing!!!

http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/pp147/clef1234/amazing_tree1.jpg

-- Chantal L., Montreal

Very cool.

-- Woody, UK

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Ebony

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TEXAS EBONY

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Alerce Tree (Fitzroya cupressoides) native to the Andes mountains of southern Chile and adjoining Argentina, where it is an important member of the Valdivian temperate rain forests.
A very large evergreen tree, the largest tree species in South America, growing to 40-60 m tall and up to 5 m trunk diameter.
In 1993 a specimen from Chile was dated as 3622 years old. This gives it the third-greatest fully verified age recorded for any living tree, after the Great Basin Bristlecone Pine and the as yet unnamed 9,550 year old spruce tree discovered in Sweden in 2008.
Source Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzroya

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saw this interesting tree in Bermuda. – St. Georges, if memory serves.

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cool little photo found on this site … link ... billions of searchable photos and art

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BANYAN TREE OF HAWAII

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another walnut tree

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http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm225/rbrearey/sonnenburg/016.jpg

have no idea what it is, but its intresting…(and possibly lazy)

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try, try again

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very interesting …

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not sure what this one is … leaves look like oak

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Jarrah Tree. Eucalyptus marginata is one of the most common species of Eucalyptus tree in southwest of Western Australia. The tree and the wood are usually referred to by the Aboriginal name Jarrah. Because of the similar appearance of worked jarrah timber to the Honduras mahogany tree, jarrah was once called Swan River mahogany after the river system that runs through Perth.
Source: Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus_marginata

Look at those burls

King Jarrah Manjimup Western Australia

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no clue what this tree is … looks interesting though

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