Unusual and odd-shaped trees

Here is a link to an interesting site that I got from The Missouri Conservationist magazine.

http://216.119.79.248/treephotos.asp

Will

Hey cool find. Quite enjoyable.

B and E were way cool!

That is a bit entertaining. I'd have a few photos to add to that. Although, I think my photos are odd, those are really odd!
Here is one of the ones I've taken that is odd. It is a Hackberry that is stretching out across this creek near here, its roots are going every which way!

Yeah, photo B it looks like they are sweet on each other!
Photo E was one of the first ones I looked at, who lets the chain-link part of a fence grow into a tree!
A friend of mine though has a chain-link fence growing into a White Ash. I've been telling her for a couple years "why don't you let me get that fence out of there"? She just says she'll have the "fence guy come out and do it", oh well.. what can you do?
I like the one that I've seen from Washington state (I think) with the bicycle in it.

Will

I've seen that one too, Will. I agree it's a good photo..

How about just for an interesting tree, period.

Fagus sylvatica 'Tortuosa' or 'Tortuosa Purpurea'. 'Tortuosa having green leaves,'Tortuosa Purpurea' having dark-purple leaves. Both similar/same in form.

Winter photo of 'Tortuosa' - Coenosium Gardens - Photo taken at The Arnold Arboretum.
http://www.coenosium.com/Aug00/fagus/trtwntr.jpg

Dax

Here's a burl on a Fraxinus that grew on a piece of wooded acreage I recently sold.

Al

Another view - another season

Al

... and here's an Acer that was growing about 1,000 yds. from any road. I'm quite certain that no man's hand played a part in how the teacup handle was created.

Al

I had a good picture once of me out motorcyling when I missed my turn on a trail in heavy timber and wedged myself in the crotch of a tree head first. My helmet preventing my extraction. I had to be cut out.

Here's my contribution. This was/is Robinia pseudoacacia, Black Locust. Like many of them, this one forked about chest height. About 10 years ago, it split, with one side landing on my rows of peppers in the garden. The other side was pretty wobbly too, so I cut that one down too where the other had broken. The next year I decided to burn the stump and set it afire. That night, it was still burning, so I doused it with the hose.

The next day at lunch, a neighbor called me and said that thing was going off like a Roman Candle, that i should get home. I beat the fire company by about 5 minutes, and we hosed it down right. That evening, I was stirring around in the ashes and the darned thing came back to life. This time I sat there 1/2 the night with a lawn sprinkler dousing the flames.

By the fall, there was some green at the top, and it has made a sort of tree from the one thin strip of bark that lived. I plan on taking it down, ever since a wind knocked on of those watersprouts onto the Northern Catalpa (the replacement tree) and broke the top out of my Catalpa.

Here is the base of the tree. One can see one of the 'clear-through' holes just above the level of the RR tracks in the background. The live bark of the new tree can be seen curling around too.

The top of same tree.

My version of a piece of parted trunk. There are 2 places like this on this tree. Salix species.