Ok so, went for a winter walk on my parents' property today, trudging through snow and getting rained on. But what a Beautiful day! I was going around scouting possible trees for collecting in the spring and Hawthorn has been on the top of that list for a while. I knew they were growing in the area but was unsure about how numerous they were on our property, but to my pleasant surprise I found TONS of hawthorn growing in this large strip of woods on the far side of the property. Went around marking the most interesting ones with hot pink flagging tape, and plan on collecting a few of them come spring.
I happened to run into an especially unique hawthorn specimen and thought I'd share a few pics with y'all. It's a raft that was formed when the original trunk was completley knocked over.
you can see really clearly in the second picture that the base of the trunk literally split in half it seems, yet the original roots held fast in the ground. The entire raft is actually a few inches above the ground, so the original trunk is the only place where the roots are. You'll see that there are two main trunks, with a third quite smaller one that looks like it popped up relatively recently. For something like this it appears to be quite vigorous and in good health. Definitely not your average tree, I'm looking forward to seeing where I can go with this. Something along these lines I would imagine: http://bonsai4me.com/AdvTech/ATdamagedhawthorn%20page2.htm
I happened to run into an especially unique hawthorn specimen and thought I'd share a few pics with y'all. It's a raft that was formed when the original trunk was completley knocked over.
you can see really clearly in the second picture that the base of the trunk literally split in half it seems, yet the original roots held fast in the ground. The entire raft is actually a few inches above the ground, so the original trunk is the only place where the roots are. You'll see that there are two main trunks, with a third quite smaller one that looks like it popped up relatively recently. For something like this it appears to be quite vigorous and in good health. Definitely not your average tree, I'm looking forward to seeing where I can go with this. Something along these lines I would imagine: http://bonsai4me.com/AdvTech/ATdamagedhawthorn%20page2.htm
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