Any views. The opposite of macro, if you will.
Split and Twined / Gegabelt und Gekordelt

A very creative growing tree / Ein sehr kreativ wachsender Baum



6 comments so far...

Fizgig May 16, 2019, 07:48 PM
Definitely unusual =) Nice find!
Sonja May 17, 2019, 08:57 AM
If it is nice is debatable. I do not mind it and think it is even curious and funny, the forestry official thinks such is a liability and should go, at higher bug risk as regular staight trees and worthless to grow bigger anyway.
Fizgig May 17, 2019, 05:30 PM
I have a pre-bonsai citrus tree I actually trained/forced to have an entwined trunk.... It's no easy feat! So for a tree to do that all on its own is amazing and it deserves to live... The whole thing about higher risk of bug infestation is ridiculous --- someone just looking for an excuse to cut down a tree that doesn't fit their understanding of how trees grow. Some folks think nature should play by our rules, while nature cares nothing for them.... What a shame if they actually cut the tree down just for being diff't.
Sonja May 19, 2019, 10:37 AM
I have no power over this. :o(
Fizgig May 19, 2019, 11:29 AM
I didn't think you did ;) It's just unfortunate when those who should know better say and do things that are more harmful to natural area maintenance than helpful....
Sonja May 20, 2019, 04:44 PM
Natural area maintainance???Someone thinks of that as natural area? Wow, that would get them silvicultural management specialistes right up into the treetops!!!
The green resource aim is providing construction materials from regrowing native resources and renewable energy and this should get rewarded by at least breaking even with mainainance costs until there is a harvest rendite.... Well, unless there is a cyclone flatting whole highways through the monocultural native resources -- LOL

That thing is cute, but it's a spruce that somehow survived the cyclone at the fringe of the destruction highway and had the tip probaply harmed even before that, so it parted. This is not worth any discussion if it will get bad before reaching maturity and fall down all by itself. All experience says it will -- be it a bug, a fungus or just friction.

Perhaps it is worth to be shown around locally, if someone would like to safe the twisted cut for some crazy showy backyard feature. Unfortunately it is quite long, much to long for, lets say, a pillar at the corner of the tool shack.

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