Interesting Biomechanics

[sean]

siamese sycamores:thumbup:

[David Humphries]

Good find sean.

 

What do you reckon?

My guess is that those two trunks grew up closer together, fused. Then have opened up over time, but the fused tissue has stuck with the original task and has built this adaptive bridge.

 

Would be really interesting to see a verticle cross section of one of these grafts.

 

 

 

 

 

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[armchairarborist]

species crossover ash/syc, and an interesting lime -the lime is way over to the left with about 15ft diameter bushy growth so getting near is impossible without cutting, these branches were coming off it and growing new trees where they touch the ground.

[David Humphries]

A little piece of graft-ification going down........or across, as the case may be or the crow doth fly

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Are you going to put up the ash David? it was your spot after all, and would make an interesting conversation, get some input on it from others?

[David Humphries]

Hadn't got to that section of the shots yet, They're at home at the mo.

Will put them up laters.

 

Feel free to get in first, I don't own it

 

 

 

 

 

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[Paul Barton]

Saw these Beeches on the Cotswold Way last week. They were part of an avenue of 20 or so trees next to arable land.

 

They seem to be creating a dense inner crown just above the main bole. The main crown was still largely in good health so I was surprised to see this happening already. Could the trees be preparing to shed their extremeties so are 'planning ahead'?

 

Any ideas?

[Bundle 2]

This tree I found in a public playground. actually, a pay to enter children's "Dinosaur" Park....Im guessing occupation is reasonably high ( whatrever that means ...! ) but anyway, liability would be rather obviously actioned in the event of a failure and injury...!

There were some great trees on this site too...

[Bundle 2]

And these gratuitous shots from the banks of the river running through Prague to the north sea eventually......( sorry, just thought the groundworks around the bases were of some interest at the time.... )

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Saw these Beeches on the Cotswold Way last week. They were part of an avenue of 20 or so trees next to arable land.

 

They seem to be creating a dense inner crown just above the main bole. The main crown was still largely in good health so I was surprised to see this happening already. Could the trees be preparing to shed their extremeties so are 'planning ahead'?

 

Any ideas?

 

Doubt it, as it is too infrequent and occurance, growth looks a bit sporty too, and retrencment is usualy post trauma rather than pre emptive.

 

Found an avenue similar on the way back from Cornwall yesterday, there was one tree inparticular that caught my eye, and a finer example of torsional growth could not be found.