Interesting Trees

Here is one that serves a useful pooperous!

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

-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.

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

-- Allison, Northeastern Ca. Remember, Amateurs built the Ark. Professionals built the Titanic!

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!

-- ....next big purchase is wood for the next project, Mark

-- Odie, Confucius say, "He who laughs at one's self is BUTT of joke".

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

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QUEENSLAND BOTTLE TREE

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-- Odie, Confucius say, "He who laughs at one's self is BUTT of joke".

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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)

-- RTB. "dumb animals are not stupid they simply can't talk "

try, try again

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very interesting …

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click for full size

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-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

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-- Maplewood, MN

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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Sassafras

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Hi guys, can I play too?

-- ??? My mistakes heat the house. It's very warm in here. ???

—interesting trees from my backyard….

....and then after gazing upon the external….

....I decided to look inside….

....some great looking trees here Grumpy; ....and,

Thank you.
GODSPEED,
Frank

-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/

beautiful photos Frank … you live in a nice place.

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This Blue Oak tree fell over but it is still growing.

A woodpecker larder in a fallen Digger Pine

-- Scott - Chico California http://chicowoodnut.home.comcast.net

unknownwoodworker, any contributios are welcome.
Frank, those photos are awesome.
Dan, you are the man. I do notice though you like the windy pictures.
Chicko, was that Woody Woodpecker?.

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Redwood

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not my backyard … still a cool tree… amazing really

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—hello Dan;
Yes, a truly cool tree there. One could arrive//get at some good braces for timber framing//ship building…., from both ends of the tree. But then just thinking….hmmm, how about flipping it on it’s side and one has a large (really large) barn door handle. Now how large is that barn door….?

....and then I looked and saw that fall, is in the air of this neck of the woods also.

GODSPEED,
Frank

-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/

Thought that this was very cool!

-- //FC - Round Rock, TX - "Experience is what you get just after you need it"

I asked what kind of tree this was when I first joined L.J.’s (in the wrong place I might add LOL!!!)

-- Allison, Northeastern Ca. Remember, Amateurs built the Ark. Professionals built the Titanic!

These two are some of my favorites I have found in cyberspace

-- Allison, Northeastern Ca. Remember, Amateurs built the Ark. Professionals built the Titanic!

Top pics Allison.

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Just curious if anyone knows whether it is dangerous to walk around these parks. I’d imagine a falling branch could easily kill someone (and it wouldn’t need to be a large branch that you could hear breaking off). They are beautiful though.

I never walk under trees … I’m always afraid of falling branches >grin<

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Dan thats to funny!
No thank you on the pumpkin pie…..lol

-- A duck that brags on his own pond, soon swims alone.

Dan, is that your best side??????

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Allison that looks like a Madonna Bra Tree

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Frank.. love your photos. You have such an “eye” for truly seeing

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

“the grand ol’ lady” maple tree (right side)... her days are done and she now needs to come down. It is a sad time.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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aw.. either it has its arm wrapped around it as they look lovingly at the scenery or it is a protective arm to make sure the other one doesn’t fall over a cliff or down the hill. Cute pix

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ASH

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LOOKS LIKE DAN’S REAR END HAS WITHERED

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AUSSIE EUCALYPT, APPLE BOX GUM TREE.

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HMMMMMMMMMMM!

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looks like a photoshop

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Topsmead State Park, Connecticut

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-- Odie, Confucius say, "He who laughs at one's self is BUTT of joke".

Odie, do you have a money tree as well

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Bald Cypress

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Beech

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