Anyone else got a 'hungry tree' pic?

[armybloke]

Found this beauty alongside the Thames at Richmond. 'Aren't trees just amazing' - a quote from my 5 year old daughter....and I tend to agree!

 

And the other is growing in the back of a Chieftain Tank Recovery vehicle empty engine compartment!

[BenR]

I know that Plane tree. It is a beast.. Kinda tempted to climb it at some point

[Gnarlyoak]

Hungry trees, eating walls and buildings at Angkor Wat temple complexes, Siam Reap, Cambodia, 2008

 

first three pics show the actions of the Strangler Fig, 2nd 2 the actions of the silk-cotton tree.

[sloth]

Awesome pics, incredible specimens! That plane is huge

[Rob D]

What a superb pic

 

That is huge.

[grim72]

Amazing stuff - did anyone watch the BBC series not long ago (think it was called Human Planet) which had the living tree bridges. I'd love to pay a visit some day. Some good pics on this site: Living Root Bridges

[armchairarborist]

spotted this a couple of weeks ago, the black splodge below is where the lead pipe was disconnected when the tap could no longer be turned.

[janey]

Found this beauty alongside the Thames at Richmond.

 

They're not exactly ironmongery eating beasties, but I got a couple of snaps of the two planes to the rear of the one you've shown above.

 

They're monsters! Thankfully, no one seems to have done a detailed inspection on them as I doubt that they'd still be there in their unmolested form if they had.

 

The cavity in the RH tree is supporting some pretty groovy adventitious roots and shoots complete with chlorophyll containing leaves in the darkness. Would they be partly or wholly supported by the carb's being released from the decaying heartwood?

Edited May 2, 2011 by janey

[Paul Jenks]

There's a lapsed plane pollard on the way into Henley-on-Thames we reduced for highways about 5 years ago. At crown break it has 6 trees/shrubs growing. Holly, Rowan, Pyracanthos, Elder, Cherry and Cotoneaster. It's the one just past the register office on the other side of the road.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

They're not exactly ironmongery eating beasties, but I got a couple of snaps of the two planes to the rear of the one you've shown above.

 

They're monsters! Thankfully, no one seems to have done a detailed inspection on them as I doubt that they'd still be there in their unmolested form if they had.

 

The cavity in the RH tree is supporting some pretty groovy adventitious roots and shoots complete with chlorophyll containing leaves in the darkness. Would they be partly or wholly supported by the carb's being released from the decaying heartwood?

 

what where the fungi janey?