Wonders of Nature: Trees

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From Wiki:
The Methuselah Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest is the location of the "Methuselah", a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine more than 4,750 years old. For many years, it was the world's oldest known living non-clonal organism, until superseded by the discovery in 2013 of another bristlecone pine in the same area with an age of 5064 years (germination in 3051 BC).[5] "Methuselah" is not marked in the forest, to ensure added protection from vandals.
It's magnificent.
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The Cashapona, or Walking Palm, stands on ten foot, or three meter, high bundles of outer roots that are used to walk to sunnier areas. They grow new 'root legs' in the direction they wish to move as older ones fall away on the opposite side. In this way, the Cashopa tree actually walks with one step taking an average of three months.
Every journey begins with the first step...
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Reminds me of an old Sci-Fi book and movie..."Day of the Triffids" :)

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From Wiki:
The Methuselah Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest is the location of the "Methuselah", a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine more than 4,750 years old. For many years, it was the world's oldest known living non-clonal organism, until superseded by the discovery in 2013 of another bristlecone pine in the same area with an age of 5064 years (germination in 3051 BC).[5] "Methuselah" is not marked in the forest, to ensure added protection from vandals.

That is very interesting. Methuselah is also the name of the grandpa from Noah and lived 969 years dying seven days before the Great Flood. In any case, to add, I wanted to mention that clonal trees, as opposed to non-clonal or single entity trees, are trees, plants, fungi, etc, that are parts of a tree network with common roots known as clonal colonies or genets. With that, the oldest clonal tree is Pando also known as The Trembling Tree, a Quaking Aspen located in the Fishlake National Forest of Utah. Pando is estimated at over 80,000 years old making it the oldest known living organism on Earth. Also interesting to note is that Pando is estimated to be over 13 million pounds or six million kilograms making him also the heaviest known living organism on Earth.
 

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That is very interesting. Methuselah is also the name of the grandpa from Noah and lived 969 years dying seven days before the Great Flood. In any case, to add, I wanted to mention that clonal trees, as opposed to non-clonal or single entity trees, are trees, plants, fungi, etc, that are parts of a tree network with common roots known as clonal colonies or genets. With that, the oldest clonal tree is Pando also known as The Trembling Tree, a Quaking Aspen located in the Fishlake National Forest of Utah. Pando is estimated at over 80,000 years old making it the oldest known living organism on Earth. Also interesting to note is that Pando is estimated to be over 13 million pounds or six million kilograms making him also the heaviest known living organism on Earth.
Fascinating! I hadn't heard of that one before--thanks!
 

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All trees are wonderful!

One of the most beautiful sights to behold is a grove of quaking aspens in the autumn wind. Every leaf shimmers.
I got to see quaking aspens in a yellow canopy on the way to the southern rim of the Grand Canyon when I drove across country. It was breathtaking.

My faves (so far) are the redwoods in Muir Woods. Your perspective is completely off when you stand under 300 foot trees. Most photographs of the redwoods that aren't shot looking straight up like this one can't include the tops of the trees unless a fish-eye lens is used. The smell is intoxicating in a redwood forest, too, piney, sharp, fresh and clean. And when you're in the forest, there's a 20-30 degree temperature differential that is astonishing, even in the heat of summer. It's like being in the Enchanted Forest in The Wizard of Oz.

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I got to see quaking aspens in a yellow canopy on the way to the southern rim of the Grand Canyon when I drove across country. It was breathtaking.

My faves (so far) are the redwoods in Muir Woods. Your perspective is completely off when you stand under 300 foot trees. Most photographs of the redwoods that aren't shot looking straight up like this one can't include the tops of the trees unless a fish-eye lens is used. The smell is intoxicating in a redwood forest, too, piney, sharp, fresh and clean. And when you're in the forest, there's a 20-30 degree temperature differential that is astonishing, even in the heat of summer. It's like being in the Enchanted Forest in The Wizard of Oz.

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Oh wow, please take me there. I love Redwoods.
(I should probably be careful here with my grammar, yar? :Oo: )
 

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I got to see quaking aspens in a yellow canopy on the way to the southern rim of the Grand Canyon when I drove across country. It was breathtaking.

My faves (so far) are the redwoods in Muir Woods. Your perspective is completely off when you stand under 300 foot trees. Most photographs of the redwoods that aren't shot looking straight up like this one can't include the tops of the trees unless a fish-eye lens is used. The smell is intoxicating in a redwood forest, too, piney, sharp, fresh and clean. And when you're in the forest, there's a 20-30 degree temperature differential that is astonishing, even in the heat of summer. It's like being in the Enchanted Forest in The Wizard of Oz.

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Lil - Muir Woods is my favorite place on this earth, and I've been a lot of places. We got there early, before the hordes arrived, and had the place to ourselves for about an hour. It was like church - full of deep peace, the scent of wood, and the silence. I wish I could live there!

We got to see Aspens this summer, for the first time, and I was floored by how beautiful they are. I bought a couple of prints of Aspens from a shop in New Mexico, but still need to frame them.

Thanks for the beautiful pic, soul sista.
 

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In Fort Meyers, Florida, where Thomas Edision (and his friend Henry Ford) had a summer home, there is a banyan tree...a gift from...India as I recall. I do not recall seeing as much light as is visible through the canopy in this photo...but this photo does present ample evidence of how the tree grows, its branches sending down...whatever the official word for it is...I'll call them feelers, that develop roots, a kind of interstate highway system of branches that extends far beyond the original trunk line of the tree.