Big trees that make you say, "It's like a giant bonsai"

[Forsoothe!]

Weeping cherry

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Very un-Cherry-like bark, not to speak of size.

 

[BobbyLane]

 

[ABCarve]

Very un-Cherry-like bark, not to speak of size.

Not sure what to say. I am speculating. I know it stops traffic when it blooms. Covered almost completely with pinkish white flowers. It definitely has a weeping growth habit. Any guesses?

 

[Forsoothe!]

Not sure what to say. I am speculating. I know it stops traffic when it blooms. Covered almost completely with pinkish white flowers. It definitely has a weeping growth habit. Any guesses?

Not in PA. I have no idea.

 

[W3rk]

This Beech with amazing bends that I just found.

 

[Kanorin]

I enjoy these three oaks at the end of my block very much! Especially the tallest one.

 

[Gabler]

Not sure what to say. I am speculating. I know it stops traffic when it blooms. Covered almost completely with pinkish white flowers. It definitely has a weeping growth habit. Any guesses?

There's a less common variety of weeping cherry (a hybrid of some sort), that gets much larger with much coarser bark, and the same contorted branching as in your picture. There's one planted at a neighbor's place here in Maryland. Here's a picture of a similar tree, a "Higan" cherry, from Getty Images.

 

[Forsoothe!]

Nice tree, but still not the same bark. I don't doubt that it might be a cherry. Prunus is a big genus and there may be one with that kind of non-Cherry bark, but it could just as easily be something else. I'd really like to know what it is. We need to plant more of them!

 

[keri-wms]

 

[bonsai_aficionado]

this is nice.

so awesome

 

[BobbyLane]

A few Oaks in the local park

 

[AlainK]

A few Oaks in the local park

Beautiful landscape : mature trees that are old enough to be "venerable", but not crippled, disabled, waiting for the extreme touch of love...

 

[BobbyLane]

Beautiful deadwood/hollows...
a place where animals and insects can take shelter.

 

[Trenthany]

Couple of cypress trees I found recently.

 

[leatherback]

 

[KiwiPlantGuy]

Does this classify for ‘windswept”. It is about 30 foot, and in the windiest part of NZ (deep south)

Charles

 

[Trenthany]

A few oaks. I have thousands of inspiration just got to get better at development! Slowly but surely. I have a few more pics if I can find them.

 

[Trenthany]

Found another! This ones hickory. Early development after a trunk chop.

 

[Forsoothe!]

Does this classify for ‘windswept”. It is about 30 foot, and in the windiest part of NZ (deep south)
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Charles

Wind damaged is none necessarily wind blown. This looks more like a meteor strike.

 

[BobbyLane]

@AlainK did you do this