Looking at the world without seeing.

[colly]

I must have passed this tree thousands of times over the past 20 years, driving, walking or on my bike.

Only recently did I notice there was something unusual about it.

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The two trunks are actually from one tree and maybe the pics don't show it all that well but there is one branch that leads directly from one trunk to the other and also a thick branch on the left that rejoins the trunk.

 

[just jim]

A T-Rex throwing it's arms up.

Is this a test?

 

[rich p]

Interesting pic, Colly. Reattaching itself to Mother ship!

This espaliered tree at Standen House is quite impressive

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[Davidc]

There was an old hedging technique which relied on plants' ability to do that. I saw it years ago when we took the offspring to a farm park in Suffolk. A load of plants vgetatively grown from one 'parent' (hawthorn IIRC) and their branches grafted together at the sides to make a self-repairing, growing, continuous barrier, which livestock couldn't get through.

Very clever.

 

[trustysteed]

A T-Rex throwing it's arms up.

A Tree-Rex?

 

[palinurus]

Tree fight!

 

[Arch]

I've seen something like that:

On one of the roads leading up and over Watership Down (I was pushing up!)

There was also a tree up on the road to Uni that had had a chainlink fence put next to it as a sapling, and had grown into and round the wire so that the fence passed through it. Alas, the fence was replaced a while back and the wire trimmed back to the bark, so it no longer goes through, but you can see the pattern left in the bark as it grows through...