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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 ...
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 ...
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.
A number of styles describe the trunk shape and bark finish. For example, a bonsai with a twisted trunk is nebikan (also nejikan (ねじ幹)), and one with a vertical split or hollows is sabakan. The deadwood bonsai styles identify trees with prominent dead branches or trunk scarring. [3]: 123–124 Trunk and root placement.
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 ...
There are 41 spiraled skyscrapers, and 4 more are under construction. [ 2] Turning Torso, in Malmö, Sweden is regarded as the first twisted tower or building. [ 3] It was designed by Santiago Calatrava and was completed in 2005. [ 4] When completed, Diamond Tower will be the only building to twist a full 360 degrees along its height.
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.