Let's discuss trees! 🌳🌳🌳
My favorite trees are the cypress trees along the California coast, especially in the fog. Here's a picture of the Lone Cypress that I took last time I did this drive.
As per tradition, use this thread to spam pictures of trees, gifs of trees, comments about trees, and quotes from the Three Amigos, because it's time for Likes for Trees 3!
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There are not a lot of trees in Colorado, at least not near Denver. I'll have to go back to where I grew up in Western MA.
The Eastern White Pine.
I'm from Louisiana and I've always loved the way cypress trees there grow in the water. 
The house I grew up in has a MASSIVE Crab Apple tree that flowers like this one every spring, and it's still a personal favorite species today 🩷🌳 Just don't eat the fruit, which tastes AWFUL 😅
Ugh my favorite tree is the Weeping Willow (i.e. Mother Willow) - I just love that they look like Dr. Suess creations and they're native here in the southern U.S. so I see them all the time. 
Gotta come in with the Cottonwood, the state tree of Kansas — hilariously, my dad upon moving here planted one in our backyard, but they grow to be 70 to 100 feet in height — not really a yard tree, he discovered. 🤣
The underside of the leaves provide this glorious sparkle when it's windy, which is nearly always in Kansas. 🥰
I love Palo Verde Trees! Native to the Sonoran Desert. Contributing to the Dr.Seuss-y vibe of the Arizona landscape. I have two at my house in Tempe, AZ! Fun fact - green bark allows it to photosynthesize even after the leaves drop.
It's winter here in New Zealand so the trees can look at bit dramatic and moody, but who doesn't love that in a tree? I'm pretty sure this is an Elm.
7,408 trees planted so far!
I searched my photos for "tree" and it surfaced this, from when we were staying in a floating house in Portland, Oregon. Rain in the evening and fog in the morning, so amazing.
Neem (Azadirachta indica) is a tree that grows in tropical regions such as India. Sometimes called “the village pharmacy,” neem is a unique medicinal plant in that all of its parts including its leaves, flowers, seeds, fruit, roots, and bark can be used. 🌱🌳🌿🪵
Neem packs over 130 active compounds that may give it numerous antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects.
Neem provides oxygen for 24 hours.
I'm going to give a different perspective on a tree...This is the kaleidoscope of colourful plants and animals growing off the roots of mangrove trees. I love Mangroves, they are magical nurseries for nature, they offer protection against natural disasters and absorb lots of Carbon Dioxide.
I honestly don't think I could pick a favourite tree, but one I'd like to share is the Gija Jumulu (Giant Boab). This one lives up in Kings Park, Western Australia, where it was relocated after needing to be moved for construction (😑). On the plus side, it means it can be enjoyed by many, many people who visit the park. It's hard to capture how impressive and humbling(?) this tree is in a photo.
Here are two examples of Boabs from the Kimberley region, Western Australia (person for scale):
Not a common tree...
In March 2015 I visited Singapore for the first time. The company I worked for at the time had an office there that I spent a week at. One night we took a trio out to Marina Bay to see the Super Trees.
I took this picture on an iPhone 5s.
The Solar Trees in City Gardens is a spectacular grove of solar trees is rooted along Marina Bay in Singapore as part of the 250-acre (101 hectares) Gardens by the Bay city park. Called Supertrees, they behave as vertical gardens - generating solar power, acting as exhaust air towers for nearby conservatories, and collecting rainwater.
To generate electricity, 11 of the supertrees are fitted with solar photovoltaic systems that convert sunlight into energy to provide lighting and water technology within the conservatories below.
The Supertrees are tree-like structures 80 to 160 feet (25 to 50 meters) tall, that are a fusion of the environment, creativity, and technology. They support gardens of flowering climbers, orchids, and ferns, with canopies that provide shade and shelter in the equatorial climate. These 'trees' help mitigate ambient temperatures by absorbing and dispersing heat.
(Source: Solarpedia)
Trees, that greatest gift of God! Just their existence alone, completely adapted to their originating place in all their variegated glories, should be enough to convert any atheist to a deep respect of existence of the Almighty!
In my country the Banyan is the designated national tree! It is also worshipped by the majority Hindu population as a deity and has many well loved myths regarding it. This large evergreen is a symbol of strength, generational passing of core values, faith and selfless service. It also has some medicinal values. The Peepal, from the same family as the Banyan, is also holy and symbol of long life.
In the Hindu religion, all natural objects in general and trees in particular, are worshipped as minor deities. Although modern technology-based life and material progress has diluted this primordial connection; it hasn't been able to kill it completely. So, our festivals are still woven around this natural connection and are a celebration of this bond.
Earl Hill Conservation Park is a 55 hectare open woodland forest with areas of rainforest.
I'm lucky enough to call this area home <3
"The Hills Trees have eyes"
A new horror movie coming soon. Produced by FMA Entertainment. Filmed in Maastricht, Holland.
I have a soft spot for cherry trees, since we had one in the garden of my house growing up! It was lovely but the birds usually got to the cherries first 😆 
This cottonwood emerged out of nowhere behind our fence a few years ago. My dogs love it because now they actually have some shade in the afternoon, and I do too. 🌳
Here is a picture from a couple of years ago when the moon was perfectly positioned behind one of the trees behind our house.
Here's Treebeard! Maybe? Is it? I don't know!
