Thread: Quick Quiz: What type of tree is this?

Bit hard to pick from that photo a closer should may help. Does look rather twisted and knarly, bit like me.

It's the twisted and gnarly that makes it intriguing.

I'm sure there'd be some interesting grain inside those branches if you borrowed one to take a look. j/k

A contorted elm

A contorted elm

It's a wooden one. I just had to..

SB

Well it's contorted, but it doesn't look much like an elm according to Google images.

Thanks for that Superbunny! That helps narrow it down.

It looks like it might have been manually trained, the way the straight trunk stops abruptly, though not necessarily.
These guys do an awesome job of tree sculpting. Here's their website:
http://www.pooktre.com/pooktre_photos.htm

Anyway, we now know that it's contorted, and also that it's made of wood. That's a good foundation to build on.

Any more takers?

My guess would be a grafted Mulberry but at that distance and resolution it's only a guess.

It would be nice to have a close up on the leaves .

paul , k

Looks like a grape vine

A sick and twisted one of these maybe... poorly kept and over pruned.... I really have no idea

I second the vote for the grafted mulberry, they "pollard" them every winter, giving that look. A grafted weeping elm is also a possibility, but I think the Mulberry wins it.

Originally Posted by Claw Hama

Bit hard to pick from that photo a closer should may help. Does look rather twisted and knarly, bit like me.

So its a claw hama tree ?

Originally Posted by pawnhead

Hi guys. A friend of mine posted a picture of a 'Funky tree' and it's got me intrigued. I thought that there's a good chance that someone here might know what it is.

She tells me that; "If it helps, the picture of the tree was taken in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains. I think it was in the garden of a toy museum.", so there's a good chance that it's not an Australian native.

Here's the link to Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shellbeapples/2922088646/

We saw a lot of trees like that in China, some were hundreds of years old. It is possibly an Asiatic species.

Even saw some where they had trained the branches into quite elaborate chair shapes - only takes 200 years or so.

Cheers

Graeme

Originally Posted by pawnhead

Well it's contorted, but it doesn't look much like an elm according to Google images.

Thanks for that Superbunny! That helps narrow it down.

It looks like it might have been manually trained, the way the straight trunk stops abruptly, though not necessarily.
These guys do an awesome job of tree sculpting. Here's their website:
http://www.pooktre.com/pooktre_photos.htm

Anyway, we now know that it's contorted, and also that it's made of wood. That's a good foundation to build on.

Any more takers?

Good God!! Where is the "Tree liberation" brigade.