Slide1: Amazing Trees
Slide2: Trees are the oldest and the largest living things on earth. Some are weird, some extraordinary, some gorgeous, and some shaped by the human hand to fascinate and amuse. Please enjoy these images–or better yet, take a walk in the woods and greet them in person with appreciation.
Slide3: A Corious Tree
Slide4: Baobob tree
Slide6: Arbutus Tree and Bark
Slide7: Bamboo Trees. Sri Lanka
Slide8: Costa Rica
Slide9: Toborochi tree
Slide11: Punta Arenas, Chile
Slide12: Quiver tree
Slide13: Rainforest undergrowth. Tangled lianas (woody vines) covered in moss, Peru
Slide14: Strangler Fig Tree. Wrapping tendrils around the host tree .
Slide15: 144 year-old wisteria in Japan.
Slide16: At 1,990 square meters (about half an acre), this huge wisteria is the largest of its kind in Japan .
Slide17: Japanese Maple in Portland, Oregon, USA.
Slide18: Tree of Tule, over 2000 years old.
Slide23: Rainbow eucalyptus
Slide25: Angel Oak Tree in Angel Oak Park on Johns Island, Southern Carolina
Slide27: Trees on Slope Point, the southern tip of New Zealand, grow at an angle because they’re constantly buffeted by extreme antarctic winds.
Slide30: The dragonblood tree named because of its crimson red sap, used as a dye for violin varnish, an alchemical ingredient, and a folk remedy for various ailments .
Slide31: The flamboyant tree, Madagascar.
Slide32: A grove of ‘candelabra’ redwoods.
Slide34: This huge 125-year-old rhododendron is technically not a tree – most are considered to be shrubs .
Slide35: Photos: WWW. Music : Paul Robeson, “Trees” (1938)