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Height. 6 m (20 ft) Date seeded. 1940s. The Crooked Trees, Crooked Bush, Twisted Trees, or the Crooked Trees of Alticane are a 3-acre (1.2 ha) [ 1] grove of deformed trembling aspen trees of type Populus tremuloides Michx. found in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. They are approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) north-northwest of the town of ...
Krummholz. Krummholz ( German: krumm, "crooked, bent, twisted" and Holz, "wood") — also called knieholz ("knee timber") — is a type of stunted, deformed vegetation encountered in the subarctic and subalpine tree line landscapes, shaped by continual exposure to fierce, freezing winds. Under these conditions, trees can only survive where they ...
Cultivar group. Tortuosa Group. The dwarf beech, Fagus sylvatica Tortuosa Group, is a rare cultivar group of the European Beech with fewer than 1500 older specimens in Europe. It is also known as twisted beech or parasol beech . It is a wide-spreading tree with distinctive twisted and contorted branches that are quite pendulous at their ends.
Pinus contorta, with the common names lodgepole pine and shore pine, and also known as twisted pine, [ 2] and contorta pine, [ 2] is a common tree in western North America. It is common near the ocean shore and in dry montane forests to the subalpine, but is rare in lowland rain forests. Like all pines (member species of the genus Pinus ), it ...
Betula alleghaniensis is a medium-sized, typically single-stemmed, deciduous tree reaching 60–80 feet (18–24 m) tall (exceptionally to 100 ft (30 m)) [ 2][ 7] with a trunk typically 2–3 ft (0.61–0.91 m) in diameter, making it the largest North American species of birch. [ 2][ 8] Yellow birch is long-lived, typically 150 years and some ...
Trail trees. Trail trees, trail marker trees, crooked trees, prayer trees, thong trees, or culturally modified trees are hardwood trees throughout North America that Native Americans intentionally shaped with distinctive characteristics that convey that the tree was shaped by human activity rather than deformed by nature or disease. [ 1]
Tree shaping (also known by several other alternative names) uses living trees and other woody plants as the medium to create structures and art. There are a few different methods [2] used by the various artists to shape their trees, which share a common heritage with other artistic horticultural and agricultural practices, such as pleaching, bonsai, espalier, and topiary, and employing some ...
List of twisted spires. A designed twist in the spire of old western town gate of Duderstadt in Germany. An unintended crooked spire on St Mary's Church in England. A crooked spire, (also known as a twisted spire) is a tower that, through accident or design, contains a twist or does not point perfectly straight upwards.