An interesting look at trees.

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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby Eremophila » Sun 30 Apr, 2017 1:05 pm

And some lovely specimens from the banks of the Glenelg River in Casterton.
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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby ribuck » Fri 02 Jun, 2017 7:32 am

This is not a tree I'd like to brush past while wearing my expensive rain gear:

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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby Neo » Sat 12 Aug, 2017 4:55 pm

Crazy gum near the Colo. Like a lava flow down over the rocks. Had lost its central leader but still going strong!
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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby cajun » Sat 12 Aug, 2017 5:35 pm

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Note the new growth at the top.
This old fella has survived floods, storms, wind, lightning and who knows what else. On the banks of the 'bidgee.
And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended,
And at night the wondrous glory of the everlasting stars.
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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby ofuros » Sun 03 Sep, 2017 1:55 pm

Seeping blood red sap caught in the morning sunlight....

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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby Camminata » Mon 11 Sep, 2017 4:19 pm

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Tree at Bogong Jack Hut & uprooted after a storm in the Dandenongs


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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby Neo » Fri 15 Sep, 2017 7:32 pm

Keep em comin.

Spotted some cool Apple Gums around Berowra/Creek but unable to photograph. I like how the bend and melt and keep growing over rocks!
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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby ribuck » Fri 29 Mar, 2019 6:03 pm

This tree is suspended in fresh air above the path that runs between Echo Point and the Three Sisters.
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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby Neo » Sat 30 Mar, 2019 8:40 pm

Live long, live strong!
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Re: An interesting look at trees.

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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby eggs » Mon 13 May, 2019 3:31 pm

Recently saw a tree growing on the trunk of a tree fern - Liffey Falls

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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby north-north-west » Mon 13 May, 2019 4:04 pm

eggs wrote:Recently saw a tree growing on the trunk of a tree fern - Liffey Falls

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This sort of thing is quite common in rainforest. Seed settles on a piece of falling timber that is decaying, it sprouts and grows as the wood rots away; hence you get the "stiltwalker" effect with the trunk starting well above ground level.
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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby eggs » Mon 13 May, 2019 4:30 pm

Yes. Curious thing here was that the tree fern was very much alive.
But I can imagine the trunk of the fern provided a lovely moist friable setting for roots - a living mulch.
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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby ofuros » Sun 30 Jun, 2019 3:35 pm

Slow strangulation... 8)
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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby ofuros » Sun 17 Nov, 2019 3:05 pm

It's that time of the year again...
Blushing Flame Trees on the flanks of Wilson's Peak, Main Range NP, Qld.

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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby michael_p » Mon 08 Jun, 2020 4:07 pm

Angophora's grow in the most amazing ways.
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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby Neo » Fri 26 Jun, 2020 7:06 pm

An article from a year ago about fire and big trees in Tasmania

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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby CraigVIC » Sun 27 Sep, 2020 8:17 pm

Which way is up?
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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby ribuck » Mon 28 Sep, 2020 4:58 pm

That reminds me of this one, on the track between Wog Wog and Corang Peak
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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby neilmny » Tue 29 Sep, 2020 9:56 am

This is not my photo. From memory it was taken by a mate on a Mt. Stirling walk.

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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby michael_p » Tue 29 Sep, 2020 6:40 pm

Another fence tree. This Angophora still has some barbed wire coming out of the bottom left branch.
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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby Lamont » Fri 23 Oct, 2020 2:45 pm

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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby ribuck » Sat 24 Oct, 2020 9:36 pm

I like the way the tree roots have bent at 90 degrees to follow the cracks of the rock. Reedy Creek, Watarrka / Kings Canyon, NT
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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby michael_p » Mon 04 Jan, 2021 1:34 pm

Another fence tree from my local area.
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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby Son of a Beach » Tue 19 Jan, 2021 10:33 am

If you look carefully, there's something rather disturbing near the base of this tree:

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Can you spot it?
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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby johnw » Tue 19 Jan, 2021 11:47 am

Son of a Beach wrote:If you look carefully, there's something rather disturbing near the base of this tree:
Can you spot it?

Yes, I recoiled in horror :shock: :lol:
Should I ask how you got in there?
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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby OWilson87 » Tue 26 Jan, 2021 11:56 pm

Wow, such cool pictures! I really enjoyed watching. We were just sitting with my wife and daughter looking and I wanted to go somewhere and see it live
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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby Son of a Beach » Wed 27 Jan, 2021 7:39 am

johnw wrote:
Son of a Beach wrote:If you look carefully, there's something rather disturbing near the base of this tree:
Can you spot it?

Yes, I recoiled in horror :shock: :lol:
Should I ask how you got in there?


It was an odd tree... quite healthy, but in general sitting on its roots, which were above the ground (presumably the ground had worn away or sunk a bit over some time. So on the other side of the tree, it looks like its sitting right out of the ground. So easy to get in underneath and impersonate a tree troll.
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Re: An interesting look at trees.

Postby johnw » Wed 27 Jan, 2021 8:08 am

Son of a Beach wrote:So easy to get in underneath and impersonate a tree troll.

It actually reminded me of a picture in a kids story book that my late mother used to read to me more than 60 years ago :).
Wish I could remember which one though.
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