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

[leatherback]

I saw this stunning elm of some sort in SW DC today near the waterfront.
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Looks like it is too close to the house. Maybe you can get permission to dig it up. Seems to have a decent nebari

 

[Velodog2]

Looks like it is too close to the house. Maybe you can get permission to dig it up. Seems to have a decent nebari

I actually lol’d at that. Being as it’s Washington I wonder if that tree isn’t somehow famous in some way and perhaps has a history I could find. I also wonder what kind of elm it could be that was around however long it go it germinated and yet survived the blight. I didn’t really get a good look at its leaves and am only guessing at the elm part right now, based on what I see of the leaves and bark.

 

[Djtommy]

Now this is how a broom zelkova should look like. This is probably the nicest broom style in nature(park) I have seen.

 

[Velodog2]

Good golly! The canopy is enormous for the trunk size! How do branches that long not get damaged? It needs to be cut back to bring it into proportion. Nice symmetry tho!

 

[MHBonsai]

Big old broken top tree. Lightning strike, hollowed out and lost the main trunk a couple times, I love the regrown leader off the big branch.

 

[Velodog2]

I guess that would be in the “naturalistic” style.

 

[sorce]

I had to drive-by grab this...

A Hood Catalpa...

There is a dope twist in the trunk...
I will get a better picture...


Eff Yes Catalpa.

Ludem!

Sorce

 

[John in Toledo]

From my vacation to Florida at the start of the month. These are in St. Augustine.

 

[TN_Jim]

Well off the highway in a private field, I see this one so often, it is probably good the mph goes from 70 here to 55...eyes on the road...appears to be in part to be making its form in adaptation to vines.

 

[BE.REAL]

Juniper virginiana. The tree is believed to be about 600 to 800 years old, but there were no coring marks on the trunk, so take the age with a grain of salt. Six foot tall nephew next to the tree, It has fine scale foliage, rather than the needle foliage you see on young J. virginiana. Location? Believe it or not, southern Illinois. The LaRue Pine Hills section of the Shawnee National Forest. At the base of the 100+ foot bluff is the ''bottomland'' of the confluence of the Big Muddy River and the Mississippi Rivers. To the west you can see Missouri from there. Being raised in Chicago, it always surprises me that Illinois has as much stunningly beautiful scenery as it does.

It is a long, long drop from the edge there nephew. That is a 2 lane paved road down there. The hills on the hazy horizon are in Missouri, the Mississippi is about where the haze gets to heavy to make out details. Big Muddy is in the foreground.

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Looking at the next clif face to the north, from the ancient juniper.

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I only visit the LaRue pine hills in cold weather, autumn, winter, and very early spring - too damn many cottonmouths, copperheads, eastern diamondback and timber rattlesnakes in the area. The place is crawling with all manner of venomous snakes in summer. Dangerous to walk around if you are not paying attention. I don't like to have to pay attention.

I would love to see where the roots go and are!!! Forgive my ignorance, but is it possible to Xray Rock soild mountains! HA

 

[Stormwater]

 

[sorce]

Sorce

 

[Djtommy]

Ramification on a red pine

 

[substratum]

This is a Kapok Tree outside the Cloister Hotel (1920s) of the Boca Resort in Boca Raton, Florida. The pic with the guy on the ramp was the view from my room. It is a massive and magnificent tree. If you look closely, you can see that this tree and the roots are covered in candy corn shaped/size thorns. First one of these I’ve seen.

 

[Silentrunning]

This poor old tree is next to my driveway. Everyone tells me to chop it down since it has only one live branch. To be honest, I just don’t have the heart to kill it.

 

[Potawatomi13]

View attachment 201571This poor old tree is next to my driveway. Everyone tells me to chop it down since it has only one live branch. To be honest, I just don’t have the heart to kill it.

Good person. Tell them to fly a kite

 

[sorce]

Good person. Tell them to fly a kite

Just don't bring their wind round this tree!

Sorce

 

[Silentrunning]

This tree doesn’t have the style of a bonsai but it does have characteristics we would all love in our bonsai. It is one of many trees hit when a small tornado came through our property in May. All the others that were hit came down including a 40” diameter Oak. This tree lost a lot of branches and all its leaves. My old tobacco barn also got damaged. The tree has come back with a second push of leaves and is even back budding where there were no leaves this spring. Quite a survivor.

 

[atlarsenal]

This is a Kapok Tree outside the Cloister Hotel (1920s) of the Boca Resort in Boca Raton, Florida. The pic with the guy on the ramp was the view from my room. It is a massive and magnificent tree. If you look closely, you can see that this tree and the roots are covered in candy corn shaped/size thorns. First one of these I’ve seen. View attachment 201549View attachment 201550View attachment 201551View attachment 201552View attachment 201553

Now that’s some serious nebari!!!

 

[substratum]

Now that’s some serious nebari!!!

It's really hard to capture the scale of it, which is why I posted the one pic with the guy on the ramp. Where the tallest nebari meets the trunk is about even with the bottom of the 2nd windows.