If you were a tree, what would you be?🌳🌴🌲🪾

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The Community’s annual Likes for Trees 🌳 campaign is back for its fifth year! 🥳

Throughout the campaign, every like helps contribute to real trees being planted around the world 🌎. It’s a simple way to celebrate the connections we make here while supporting something that lasts far beyond a single conversation. If you’re looking for all the details, please be sure to visit this post.

With trees on our minds, we thought we’d bring the conversation to the Watercooler🚰. People often say dogs end up looking like their owners.
The same idea got us wondering about trees. 🤔💭

If you were a tree, what kind would you be? 💚

Maybe you’re a towering redwood that likes a little distance from the crowd. Maybe you’re a maple that puts on a show every fall. Or maybe you’re a stubborn pine that somehow thrives no matter the weather.

📸 Find a photo of the tree that feels most like you and tell us why it made the cut. If you know a fun fact about your tree, include that too. We may learn something new while getting to know each other a little better.

We’re curious to see what kind of forest our community turns out to be.🌳🌴🪾🌲🥳

[Monique vdB]

I am a large, loud, colorful person so my first thought was a Jacaranda tree! I first saw one when visiting our Atlassian HQ in Sydney and wow they are gorgeous. 

I'm from L.A. originally so palm tree iwasalso a major contender but my husband loves to rant about how they are "not real trees" and they are pretty skinny, which I am not. So Jacaranda it is! 😆

[Joshua McComack]

[Evie Z_]

@Monique vdB Some of my best memories of LA include all the Jacarda trees coloring the roads and tops of cars with their little purple flowers! 💜

@Joshua McComack I grew up in Mojave desert! Loved seeing the animals that Joshua trees housed in my backyard! (Fitting for your name! 😆)

I think I would be a tough little oak in some wildflower field, spending my time growing without a care in the world.

[Amanda Barber]

You could even take a quiz to find out what Rainforest tree you are or this quiz: https://www.earthday.org/what-tree-are-you-quiz/

I love these tulip trees and hope I bring the same beauty and joy (hopefully for more than the 2ish weeks I see them blooming, haha!)

[Brian Hankey]

Like @Evie Z_ , I would be a true surrounded by Texas bluebonnets.  I would not be a Cedar or a Juniper because they cause the dreaded Cedar Fever :)

I would be an oak tree that stands and protects in times of trouble. 

[Andrew Zimmerman]

According to the quiz referenced by @Amanda Barber, I would be a Ginkgo! 

[Anwesha Pan]

I also got Ginko by taking the quiz mentioned by @Amanda Barber 🌳

But I would love to be Cheery Blossom being in Seattle! 😍 and also feels so peaceful!

[Kris Klima _K15t_]

If I were a tree... hmmm.... I'd probably be a bed now :D 

[Andy Gladstone]

I think I would be an Oak Tree. Staying close enough to the ground that I am rooted in reality, but spreading out my branches and leaves to provide anyone in my circle protection and shade. Older, wiser, more caring each year. 

[Andy Gladstone]

@Amanda Barber cool links for the quizzes!

According to EarthDay.org's quiz, I would be a pine.

Pine trees, popular, can grow in almost any climate (even extreme ones!). They are evergreen and this characteristic often symbolizes wisdom as well. Pine trees provide habitat for a wide variety of animals. Their cones are a good source of food for animals and birds. Pine trees are also used as materials in the construction and paper-products industries, making them one of the most heavily timbered trees.

According to Rainforest.org... still buffering! I will need to come back and update once it returns a result.