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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.
The green pine needles give the twisted branches a bottle-brush appearance. The needles of the tree surround the branch to an extent of about one foot near the tip of the limb. [13] The name bristlecone pine refers to the dark purple female cones that bear incurved prickles on their surface. [5] [12] The dark color of these cones helps to ...
Although, because of the Act, Robert Stephenson had to follow Rennie's route and use the obscure track gauge of 5 ft 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,537 mm), [5] [3] he was free to choose his own method of propulsion. Drawing on his experience with the Camden Incline on the London and Birmingham Railway he decided upon cable haulage from stationary steam engines.
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]
The splendid fairywren ( Malurus splendens) is a passerine bird in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae. It is found across much of the Australian continent from central-western New South Wales and southwestern Queensland over to coastal Western Australia. It inhabits predominantly arid and semi-arid regions.