#giant trees

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[rana-temporaria]

Ok so like you know mega flora like red woods or sequoias GIANT TREE

What if Beleriand had that but like BIGGER FREAK GIANT TREE

Like suped up miles high trees, specifically in Nan Elmoth, like what if thats that no sun reaches Nan Elmoth cause they have giant freak nightmare trees, Doriath too

And what if trees are so big they still stick out of the water when Beleriand sinks like imagine being an elf sailing to Valinor and you pass by sunk Beleriand and you're like woah trees?? and you look down and theres no land just WATER and SUPER TREES and like whatever was going on in Nan elmoth is still going on and its really fucked up and cool

Like just imagine Legolas and Gimli exploring sunk Beleriand before reaching Valinor, like they've seen Tol Morwen, went to Tol Fuin (It was evil) and saw Tol Himling and now they see ANCIENT GIANT TREES and MAYBE FISTFIGHT EOLS GHOST

Idk I think its fun

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’24.6.1 天理市 波羅門杉

@masachi さんとの撮影会レポ、まだまだ続きますｗ

柳生～山添村を経由して進路を西へ変え天理方面へ。途中にお勧めの巨木がありますよ😉、とのmsachiさん情報でそちらへ寄り道。

着いた先には何とも大きく魅力的な大杉×２。写真では写ってませんが木々の間には石段があり、巨木たちが奥にあるお堂の門を兼ねているかのような佇まい･･。車でのアクセスもしやすく、それでも現場はとても静かな環境で、霧出る朝に再訪したくなるような巨木でした。

[bellumsaur]

Tree Tops Mashup

Something I drew years ago, inspired by listening to the music in the Tree Tops level in Spyro 1. I had used what were then new coloring pencils and a new mixed media pad though I wish I had run through with the pencils for a second time to fill in the white spaces.

This here is a depiction of the tree villages of the enigmatic Night Dragons, who make their homes amidst the towering Beech and Podocarp conifer trees inland from Wijenborg Bay on West Antarctica. The local dragons practice their magic and ancient ways of life largely in isolation from the outside world, under the protection of the mighty Laio-Ulchan Empire, where their villages are hard for most incapable of flight to reach. On some of the great branches and trunks of the trees, the dragons have built great temples and palaces, primarily from wood, and their villages prosper even in the cold dark of the winters. Local legends tell that the great trees were tampered with by the dragons, to escape the attacks by marauding saurian tribes innumerable millennia ago and they now stand as the tallest beings on earth, dwarfing the mighty redwoods and cedars of the American Pacific coast.

[taradrawstuff]

little digital environment study from last night, not 100 sure im done with this one but i like where its at

[drhoz]

#2757 - Sequoiadendron giganteum -Giant Sequoia 

AKA giant redwood, Sierra redwood or Wellingtonia. First described in 1853 by English botanist John Lindley as Wellingtonia gigantea, but that generic had already been used for an unrelated plant in the family Sabiaceae. In 1854 French botanist Joseph Decaisne put it in the same genus as the coast redwood, naming it Sequoia gigantea, but that name had been applied, wrongly, to the coast redwood in 1847. Also in 1854 American botanist Andreas Peter Winslow named it Washingtonia californica - American botanists being slightly pissed that an English botanist had named the tree after a English military hero - but this name too was invalid, since there was already a palm genus Washingtonia. In 1907, German botanist Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze got in on the fun and put it in the otherwise extinct genus Steinhauera, but that's dubious enough to also be invalid.

These nomenclatural oversights (to put it politely) were corrected in 1939 by American gymnosperm expert John Theodore Buchholz, who put it in the new genus Sequoiadendron to stand proudly alone (the other two in the genus extinct since the Miocene and the Cretaceous respectively).

A giant cypress native to the Sierra Nevada, and the most massive trees on Earth. The tallest known is 94.8 m (311 ft) tall, and the widest trunk diameter reached 8.8 m (28.9 ft). Ages are known to have exceeded 3200 years.

Giant sequoias are adapted to forest fires, with unusually resistant bark, and cones that open immediately after a fire. They're having difficulty reproducing in their remaining habitat due to the seeds only being able to grow successfully in full sun and in mineral-rich soils, free from competing vegetation. That said, new stands planted in the San Jacinto Mountains and elsewhere, after forest fires cleared out the competition, are doing quite well.

An endangered species with fewer than 80,000 remaining in its native California. Infuriatingly, logged for timber despite being so brittle it was only good for fence posts and toothpicks.

Once much more widely distributed, and reasonably common in North American and Eurasian conifer forests until the last ice age.

In Aotearoa, ornamental Sequoias have already reached trunk diameters of over 3 meters in 120 years. They have a long way to go.

Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand

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More giant trees from Gondwana Tea Mountain, all Eucalyptus species.

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Jorry Rosman.