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Hikerhead
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Registered: September 2002
Location: Roanoke, Va
Posts: 1725
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Thu November 13, 2003 6:36pm
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Rating: 9
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That is unusual...I think you bent that tree.
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Hokey Pokey
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Anonymous
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Fri November 14, 2003 2:56pm
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I have seen a tree or two like that, but cant' explain how it happened.
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Lilred
Springer - Front Royal
Registered: July 2003
Location: White House, TN.
Posts: 2848
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Sat November 15, 2003 11:11pm
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Rating: 10
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Indians used to shape trees to point in certain directions, like north, or where a tribal meeting was being held. This one is really cool.
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"It was on the first of May, in the year 1769, that I resigned my domestic happiness for a time, and left my family and peaceable habitation on the Yadkin River, in North Carolina, to wander through the wilderness of America." - Daniel Boone
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Dances with Mice
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Registered: May 2003
Location: North Georgia
Posts: 3888
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Sat October 9, 2004 2:49pm
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I've seen this tree several times and once stopped to study it for awhile. http://www.whiteblaze.net/gallery/sh...&nocache=1
What you're looking at is a natural graft.
There are two different trees, in fact two different species of trees, pictured. One is an elm, the other an oak but I can't remember which is which. Let's say the trunk on the right, the one forming the arch, is the elm and I believe that's right. It was somehow bent and collided with the upright trunk of an oak on the left, maybe when yet another tree fell on it. The two trunks intertwined, grafted together, and grew upright from the point of contact. In summer you can see that there are two different types of leaves growing from each half of the upright trunk, and upon even closer inspection you can see that there are two different types of bark on the upright trunk after the intersection.
The division is visible just above the intersection of the arched trunk and the upright trunk. Notice how the upright trunk below the intersection has smooth bark, the arched trunk has rough bark, and above the intesection the left side of the upright trunk is smooth and the right side is rough.
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You never turned around to see the frowns
On the jugglers and the clowns
When they all did tricks for you.
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grandview
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Registered: November 2004
Location: augusta, ga
Posts: 101
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Sat November 6, 2004 11:47pm
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Rating: 10
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i stopped and took a shot of this a month or so ago...it was about as foggy as it can get and that tree had an eery feel to it....nice shot
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