10 amazing creatures flora Bashny.Net

Giant trees and dwarf trees, trees of immense thickness, age of trees many centuries ... with giant and small leaves, the roots, buttresses and roots-props, with trunks lined with strange flowers and intimidating thorns ... On our planet, you can find a variety of unusual copies ... This is one of the most famous instances of "Woody circus" Axel Erlandson ... Wood-basket ... Axel was born in 1884, was the son of Swedish immigrants who settled in Canada, and lived in that cultivated legumes and cereals ... It is said that this occupation rather, the intricate intertwining kind of flexible stems Erlandson inspired to experiment with trees whose trunks during growth with the help of special devices attached a variety of forms ...





Biped tree ...


Tree-ladder ...


And here is the Axel and almost tree-bower ... This hobby - and the garden around the house, and the circus - Erlandson spent 40 years. He created a simply outstanding sculptures from living trees. When he was asked how he grew such masterpieces, he often replied something like - "I simply asked them about it ...»


And this is a creation of nature - the 84-meter giant sequoia, the biggest tree in the world ... Traditionally, this giant California national park named "General Sherman" in honor of the hero of the American Civil War gave all 6000 years, but now scientists believe that it all 2000. They argue that this tree has reached such a value is due to its exceptional age, but because growing fast ...


By the way, as it turned out, "General Sherman" and not the tallest tree in the world: the red "Mendocino Tree" ahead of its 28 meters. However, the giant sequoia is the largest tree, as is 9 meters in diameter ...


This oak church in Holland ...


Osinoobrazny poplar In Utah ... Despite the many trunks is a single wood formation, growing from a single root ... And although the age of the individual branches of not more than 130 years, the whole tree-forest lives have about 80 000 years ...


Tree-forest in winter ...


Cypress "Don Montezuma" near the city of Oaxaca in Mexico ... This tree trunk girth - 58 meters and 11 meters in diameter 3 ...


Some skeptics argue that this is not a single tree, and three - however, DNA analysis has confirmed that this is - really one magnificent tree ... In 1994, ONR seemed to start to die: the leaves turned yellow, some dry branches, but with the beginning of the season of heavy rains tree revived ...


The record for the diameter of the crown is the Indian banyan ...


Crohn this tree was measured in 1929 - when she was 300 meters ... But since the tree has grown even more.


And it is the oldest banyan in the world in the city of Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka - it 2295 years!


Now scientists are trying to uncover the secret of longevity of the oldest tree on the planet. Age "Methuselah", so named this longevity is an estimated 4772 years, and it is growing in the east of the State of California. "Methuselah" lives in an environment similar to themselves patriarchs - here, at an altitude of 3 thousand meters, on a mountaintop survived two pine trees, whose average age is measured by many hundreds of years. All of them - and the youngest, and veterans do not shine harmony or height, unlike other Centenarian - redwoods. The flow of time willfully bizarre mangled and twisted trunks of many pine trees, and some of them have long lost the bark and look almost dead. But somewhere lurking one living branch and look exactly the most ancient of the locals.


"Methuselah" and his brothers belong to the species' long-lasting pine. " They grow just a few points of the western states of the US, and only in these harsh, blow wind regions where there is no rain for years, so they reach old age. Of the "Methuselah" discovered in 1953 a scientist Edmund Schulman, who in 1958 published an article about it in the magazine "Neyshnl dzheogrefik." Struck the pine world fame almost ruined her not because everyone who came to this region, tried to take a souvenir piece of bark or branch.


In fact, the fault of people have already died pine "Prometheus", which was about 300 years older than "Methuselah" and grew up in the neighboring state of Nevada. But the killer turned out to be vandals or tourists. While scientists have insisted on the research and creation of the reserve, a student named Donald Curry, was collected in the mountains of Nevada materials for his thesis on the glaciers, easy to get permission to the US Forest Service and cut one of the trees. Counting the rings showed that the age of the tree is more than 4, 8 thousand years. As it turned out, it was the "Prometheus", but its exact age was 4862 years.


This lone cypress in Monterey ...


And this - the lonely tree on the planet - acacia Tenere in the Sahara Desert ... Within a radius of 250 miles was no longer a single tree ... Now there and it - was broken drunk Libyan truck ...


Now in place of the tree is a monument ...


And finally, the baobab ... This is an amazing tree reaches 30 meters in height and 11 meters in width ... bloated barrel - a receptacle for water - baobab can store as much as 120,000 liters of water to endure harsh drought conditions ...


Baobabs take the form of bottles, jugs, teapots ...


The inhabitants of the African continent have found a way of their practical application ... For example, one of the Zimbabweans posted a baobab toilet ...


And the residents of the other African village baobab trunk adapted as a prison ...


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