Something you don't see too often
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (329148)
Rockingham, Australia
May 16, 2024 9:15pm CST
We went to visit a friend the other day and I noticed this tree in her backyard.
Can you see the green string each side of the trunk? I guess the twine supported the trunk when the tree was young and now the trunk has grown over it.
I’ve seen similar instances where netting or tyres have not been removed soon enough and the tree trunk has grown over whatever is in the way.
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@Deepizzaguy (96530)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
17 May
It is a very odd sight indeed.
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@crossbones27 (48657)
• Mojave, California
17 May
Yeah, that is always neat. Its a nice reminder the world will get rid of men of women but it will create plants and bugs who who respected this planet, those who do not will go extinct. This planet is nothing nice, why people so mean. Respect it or die.
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@JudyEv (329148)
• Rockingham, Australia
19 May
We will be long gone but there will still be trees outliving us.
@psanasangma (6554)
• India
17 May
At first glance I thought it could be a nest but when try to relook and it wasn't
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@psanasangma (6554)
• India
23 May
@JudyEv Looks like branch was quite big while removing
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@JudyEv (329148)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 May
@psanasangma I think you're right. It's quite a big scar.
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@LindaOHio (161769)
• United States
17 May
We have a picture from the Key West Cemetery in which a tree has almost totally engulfed a headstone. Have a great day.
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@LindaOHio (161769)
• United States
19 May
@JudyEv They sure do. The next time we went down to the Keys, they had removed the tree from the headstone.
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@Marilynda1225 (80714)
• United States
17 May
I've never seen anything like that before.
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@Marilynda1225 (80714)
• United States
19 May
@JudyEv trees have a mind of their own
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@MarieCoyle (30866)
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17 May
My aunt and uncle bought a house with quite a few trees in the backyard, all seemed healthy...after a few months my uncle discovered one tree that had had a large branch evidently split off at one time. Someone had tied it together with a strong nylon rope, and it had grown back together, which we thought very strange. He thought to have the branch removed, but it was very strong, it was still strong 10 years later when they sold the house.
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@MarieCoyle (30866)
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19 May
@JudyEv
He had a tree expert look at it and he said once in a while that will work. I had never heard such a thing before, either.
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@zhangxueying (3258)
• China
17 May
This is really special, I have never seen it before
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@BarBaraPrz (45938)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
17 May
The big tree in my backyard had grown over the fence and I had a difficult time of it to remove the post before I could reroute the fence around the tree a few years back.
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@wolfgirl569 (98066)
• Marion, Ohio
19 May
@JudyEv That's common. Or chains from a swing
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@aninditasen (15848)
• Raurkela, India
17 May
It is strange but good over the string. Normally the trunk stops growing at that place.
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@aninditasen (15848)
• Raurkela, India
21 May
@JudyEv That's nice. The tree is healthy.
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@dgobucks226 (34670)
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18 May
That tree was fit to be tied. Oh well, you can't stop "Mother Nature."
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