Here are a few of nature's oddities that I saw this past week.
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A holey Sweetgum tree.
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A holey White Oak.
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A burl on an Ironwood (Blue Beech) that is sprouting.
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A White Oak that separated and then grew back together further up.
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This White Oak is in the process of limb grafting.
Mother nature at work. Are these at the farm? bg
Some are, but the White Oaks are here on my street in town.
Holey Moley!
I bet those boards would look neat. two connected crotches!
Cool pictures, it's great to see what nature can do.
nice photos.makes me think somwhere in the bible it talks about 2 becoming 1when married.b
Two sycamore's grown together, been thinking if they could be slabbed together would make a nice conference table, but they are so wide i dont think there is any way to cut them.
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this is a tulip popular
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No picture here, but have seen whole areas of them, black spruce with layering. You have the parent tree in the middle and in a circle around it where the lower limbs touch the ground are new rooted trees growing. ;D
Here's a wooly black spruce. Has a fur coat. ;)
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this tree lost its top, then grew a new top that is 36 inch at its base
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Red cedar do that a lot out on the west coast, big huge candelabra limbs. :)