Thursday, September 10, 2020

Tumblr Post: Trees Are Bizarre And Freaky


This quick and educational Tumblr thread points out how trees are actually far scarier than we normally give them credit for. Cause we all needed another thing in this wild life to be wary about. Thank you, Tumblr. Keep doing your thing. Check out some more gold from Tumblr with this imaginative thread that combines the Marvel and Star Wars universes.

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Tree - zafojones

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Text - Circus Tree: Six individual sycamore trees were shaped, bent, and braided to form this. gwydtheunusual Actually pretty easy. Trees don't reject tissue from other trees in the same family. You bend the tree to another tree when it is a sapling, scrape off the bark on both trees where they touch, add some damp sphagnum moss around them to keep everything slightly moist and bind them together. Then wait a few years- The trees will have grown together. You can use a similar technique to graft

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Text - beautifuloutlier As a biologist I can clearly state that plants are fucking weird and you should probably be slightly afraid of them. viforcontrol On that note! At the university (UBC) located in town, the Agriculture students were told by their teacher that a tree flipped upside down would die. So they took an excavator and flipped the tree upside down. And it's still growing. But the branches are now the roots, and the roots are now these super gnarly looking branches. Be afraid.

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Tree - reallifescomedyrelief But Vi, how can you mention that and NOT post a picture? D:

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Text - [source] natashi-san I am both amazed and horrified of nature as we all should be solluxismsnowaifu I love how trees are like "fuck it, P'll deal" at literally everything. Forest fire? Cool, my seeds'll finally grow. Upside down? Branches, suck, roots, leave. What's this new branch? Eh, welcome to the tree buddy.

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Text - rookstheravens I need to be more like tree azzandra I continue to fear and respect out arboreal overlords. fuckyeahwomenprotesting what kind of professor did these students have that they needed to prove him wrong so badly that they literally dug up a tree, flipped it and put it back in the ground?

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Text - sailorofships Sounds like y'all've never heard about the Tree of 40 Fruits. Well, it's exactly as it sounds. Sam Van Aken, an artist based in New York, decided to try his hand at grafting (e.g. the process by which you attach the branches of a different tree to a host tree). As artists are inclined to do he decided to push some limits and over the course of a few years he grafted over 40 different fruit onto the host “ including almond, apricot, cherry, nectarine, peach and plum varieties

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Tree - Shit's tight yo. Also we have a group called the Guerrilla Grafters. A group who started in San Fransisco with the goal of grafting fruiting branches onto non-fruiting trees of the same type.

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Text - Most cities have fruit trees that simply don't produce fruit because having all these would be a mess and inadvertently providing unregulated food to people comes with a lot of legal risks I suppose. These grafters seem to think otherwise and have taken it upon themselves to try and bring fruit trees back to urban areas. dangerbooze HOLY SHIT okapiandpaste THE LAST ONE

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Text - persolem Solarpunk as fuck! overheardinwod Reblogging for "I continue to fear and respect out arboreal overlords." your-local-emo-goblin Improvise, adapt, overcome Source: zafojones

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