Odd Growth

 

To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.
 
Richard Mabey, Beechcombings: The narratives of trees
 

 

Sprout in birch bark curl, Salt Spring Island, BC
Pine sprout in birch bark curl, Salt Spring Island, BC

 

 

Oak burls, Lewisville, Texas   Abandoned insect gall, new Oak leaves emerging - Spring 2007 in Coppell, TX   Unusual topiary, Bakersfield, California   Tree roots displacing sidewalk, Ajijic, Mexico   Windswept Hawthorn, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
                 
California Redwood forest Ponderosa Pine root   Mateo, North Carolina   Cryke Point, Vancouver Island, BC   Victoria, BC Canada   Cedar stump, Stony Swamp, Ottawa ON Canada
                 
Redwood, new growth appears from bumps, John Muir National Redwood Forest, California   Prominent knot on a Pecan tree - Dallas, Texas   Eastern Cottonwood insect gall, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada   A dead branch looking like a deer with antlers, Ottawa ON Canada   Alder root, Plymoth, NC - Alder form a symbiotic relationship with bacteria growing in the roots, supplying extra nitrogen to the tree.
                 
Bent trees mimic background rock shapes, Oceanside, Oregon   Root growth around rocks, Wilson Creek, OR   Sitka Spruce, Cape Disappointment WA   Victoria, BC Canada   Cedar Burl, Noble Woods Park, Hillsboro OR
                 
Zigzag growth, Jones Falls, ON Canada   Trunk with zigzag growth habit in a forest near Jones Falls, Ontario   Bald Cypress knees provide structural strength to trees growing in swampy conditions, Irving Texas   Hole in Oak tree, Coppell Texas   Odd growth, Stony Swamp, Ottawa ON Canada

 

 

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