Friday, November 13, 2020

Tumblr Thread : Trees Are Low Key Monsters


If there's one inevitable and unsettling takeaway that you'll likely have from this Tumblr post about various kinds of trees, it's that trees are very weird and we should all be slightly frightened by them. This post reminds us of the other Tumblr thread about the monster plant that is the Kudzu. Maybe one day, humans will peace out from earth, take our troubles elsewhere, and leave the arboreal overlords to roam and rule over the earth. 

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Tree - zafojones 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 techniqu

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Tree - 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. realli

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Tree - 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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