Double Kasortso Tree: tree growing on top of another tree Bashny.Net

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between cities and Kasortso Grana, Piedmont, Italy, has a very unique tree, or rather, these are two of the tree, with one grows on top of the other. The locals call it «Bialbero de Casorzo», ie "Double Tree Kasortso" and a strange natural formation consists of a cherry tree growing right on top of the mulberry tree. No one knows how cherry managed to take root and survive in this strange position. According to local, it could have been a bird that once dropped the cherry on top of the bone Mulberry. And then took root bone. Roots sprouted directly through the hollow trunk of a mulberry tree, and reached the soil.

A truly unusual in a "double tree" is that the trees that make it up - very big. And the phenomenon is not as common when it comes to the parasitic growth. Similar anomalies, of course, in the past have taken place in nature, but the tree-parasite that tends to be very small and stunted. And in the case of "double tree" cherry growing on top, it does not differ from normal cherry growing on the ground. Both trees have merged, and as a result there was a stunner. Their branches spread around five meters. And life expectancy "Double Tree" is surprisingly large, especially when you consider the fact that cherry gets all nutrients through a mulberry tree.



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