Amazing Trees of the World

[Tom Joye]

No giants, but the three biggest sweet chestnuts of Flanders and a Ficus in the middle of Valencia. Not as big as some others earlier in this thread, but a biggie for a city tree.

[tommer9]

I have posted this pic on another thread, but here goes with one of the oldest if not the oldest pseudotsuga menziesii in the country. Shaggy old thing.

 

[minty]

has anyone got a pic of a joshua tree,Ive never seen one.

[Sciadopitys]

Sure have matey, these were taken in Joshua Tree National Park, California. You probably know this already, but they are not actually trees, they are monocotyledons, and are a member of the Genus Yucca. So, these tree-like plants have no cambium as the vascular bundles are scattered throughout their stems! Quite remarkable that something more related to a grass can grow to these proportions! I think they are amazing. They look wonderful as a dark silhouette as the sun goes down in the desert you get some awesome colours in the sky. Shame my photography skills were not up to the task and i didn't have a tripod!

 

The species photographed is Yucca brevifolia subsp. brevifolia, the other subspecies been subsp jaegeriana. The only difference between the species is the one only branches after flowering and the other branches freely, so i'm told, resulting in a much more compact appearance.

[minty]

thank u Sciadopitys for the pics and all the info too,I had never seen a Joshua tree before and I had asked arborists here{N.Z.}about them and no one really knew anything about them,I printed your pics and hung them on the office board and when people ask about them I will have a lot of information to tell them,I would love to grow some here but I will have to check up on that first{noxious weed etc}.

[Dean Lofthouse]

I think we have some pretty amazing trees right here on our doorstep, the way in which they adapt and cling onto life.

 

I have had to take down two trees, just humble Oaks, from cliff faces for...wait for it...H&S reasons. The first I photographed but lost the images when my computor crashed and burned.

 

It was a mature Oak growing out of a fissure or crack halfway down a cliff facethe fissure was only 3" wide and the Oak was about 30" DBH and somehow it had put out enough to cling on to the side of this cliff.

 

The other below was one that was perched on the edge of a 60ft cliff above a bungalow, there was only 6" of soil then solid rock, again the tree finding enough purchase for it's precarious existence, shame it had to come down

[David Humphries]

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The other below was one that was perched on the edge of a 60ft cliff above a bungalow' date=' there was only 6" of soil then solid rock, again the tree finding enough purchase for it's precarious existence, shame it had to come down[/quote]

 

I still remember this Oak of yours Dean, and the story behind what was for you, an interesting (to say the least) week.

What I can't remember is whether you left it as coppice/stump, or did for it?

 

 

 

 

 

Interesting take on BS EN 12492

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Edited May 3, 2009 by Monkey-D

[Dean Lofthouse]

I still remember this Oak of yours Dean, and the story behind what was for you, an interesting (to say the least) week.

What I can't remember is whether you left it as coppice/stump, or did for it?

Interesting take on BS EN 12492

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The stump I left live at 6ft David to keep everything bound together at the top, with a note for a visual inspection every 3 or 4 years.

 

Believe it or not I had to google BS EN 12492

 

That day was one of my "fly by the seat of my pants days"

 

Stump below

[David Humphries]

Last shot looks like you're just about to rappel down the cliff to an awaiting post op get away vessel.

 

SBS?

 

 

 

 

 

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[Dean Lofthouse]

SBS?

 

 

 

No, they're gay apparently

 

The veiws were being taken in