Weird tree #4 by goodoleboy

Photography • Flowers/Plants • posted on Apr 27, 2015

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Description

Captured back on an overcast 5/29/09, during my first visit to the beautiful Huntington Botanical Center and Conservatory in beautiful San Marino, California. To be more explicit, I found this beauty - a paragon of cool bark - in the desert cacti and succulent plant section of the gardens. It appears to be melting. I believe the surface soil is a combination of dirt and sand. Have a nice day.

Comments (10)

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anmes

4:54PM | Mon, 27 April 2015

Magnificent

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CavalierLady

5:26PM | Mon, 27 April 2015

Wonderfully interesting and unique bark on this plant! Well found and taken, Harry!

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Mulltipass

8:54PM | Mon, 27 April 2015

Very Odd Piece of Nature!!!

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MrsRatbag

9:22PM | Mon, 27 April 2015

Wow, I have no idea what that is; what a cool and unusual tree! You're right, it does seem to be metamorphosing into something else. Wonderful find and capture, Harry!

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bebopdlx

12:42AM | Tue, 28 April 2015

Most excellent photo.

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Hendesse

1:27AM | Tue, 28 April 2015

This tree looks really absolutely weird, it must be very old. Excellent find and shot.

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helanker

3:00AM | Tue, 28 April 2015

OH WOW ! I love trees and this looks fantastic. Love the rough bark and you captured it very beautifully. :-)

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Cyve

6:39AM | Tue, 28 April 2015

Incredible tree and fabulous picture my friend !!!

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anahata.c

11:05AM | Wed, 29 April 2015

I said I'd do one current one (of this batch of older shots), and as I'm at an hour now, I'll end with this beauty. This is such a yellow-jaundiced-brown shot. It's so dessert-y. You caught the tree textures with sharp details in the furrows and edges, and it looks like a very aged hand spreading its grasp to the sky. And you allowed falling leaves (needles, etc) to show, in the top of the shot, which gives this a soft, almost willowy feel---very different from the feel of that trunk. A grizzled, jaundiced, very intense shot; and oddly beautiful. I've never seen a tree like this, not even in a botanical center. Intensely caught, Harry, a fine piece of grizzled tree-photography.

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