Aiki_Joker
Shohin
Hey everyone. I found lots of wild olive trees recently and saw first had the ramification and left size reduction that this species is capable of!! Thee trees grow at high temp 45oC + and relatively high altitude in full sun... I hypothesise that mountain goats eat these olives down and actively prune them. I have seen them doing this and it seems to make sense?
This specimen shows two startlingly different leaf sizes at different heights due to the goats inability to graze the top half! The ramification on some of these is huge too! The ramified branches are solid and steady like a nail brush.
~5cm to <~1cm!
Ramified and reduced at the bottom!
Close up of ramification! :0)0
This specimen shows two startlingly different leaf sizes at different heights due to the goats inability to graze the top half! The ramification on some of these is huge too! The ramified branches are solid and steady like a nail brush.
~5cm to <~1cm!
Ramified and reduced at the bottom!
Close up of ramification! :0)0