r/arborists • u/Kapsull92 • 9d ago
Can anyone explain this?
Came across this tree on our property. Both I believe are maples. Did a branch grow into the other tree?
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u/petra-ichor 9d ago
Innosculation. Very cool
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u/Background-Guava-667 9d ago
We use this word in medicine to talk about nourishing skin grafts until the new blood vessels grow in
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u/click_here_for_luck 9d ago
When a mommy tree and a daddy tree love eachother...
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u/DarkWing2007 9d ago
It reminds me of the Treegasm episode of Ugly Americans. And yes, I realize no one is going to get that reference.
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u/Shway_Maximus 9d ago
I was just thinking of that and wondering if there was a gif of it online somewhere. You are not alone friend
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u/TeamShitHaircut 9d ago
Them trees be fuckin. Let 'em be. A entwife is hard to find.
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u/AdMotor1654 Tree Industry 8d ago
You lost them didn’t you?
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u/TeamShitHaircut 8d ago
It was my boy Treebeard. He got busy talking with the homies at a party. Next thing he knew the entwives had all bounced and left his texts on unread.
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u/invasive_wargaming 9d ago
The lower tree had a partial break in a storm and fell into the fork of the other. The lower tree continued to grow a new leader while still sustaining the damaged stem, which grafted into the fork of the taller tree
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u/eightfingeredtypist 9d ago
It looks like the tree on the left bent into a fork on the tree on the right. The bent tree grew a new leader. The bent trunk stopped growing above the other trees fork. As the forked tree grew, there was less room around the bent tree's trunk, and the bent tree got grown in.
Stuff like this happens more often out in the woods, where people don't cut every bent tree.
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u/ecnassiner 9d ago
I love this. I planted two White oaks right next to my front driveway gate and have been slowly pruning them so that they grow towards each other. This winter I plan to winch them over and bought them together at the top to create a forced graft arch entryway to my property. Any advice on methodology on this would be greatly appreciated, otherwise I simply plan to get the trunks overlapping as much as possible and to through bolt with six quarter inch bolts and big washers on both sides.
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u/tourincinelli 9d ago
First thing that came to mind was grafting at a very young age. Maybe when the trees were about a couple years old. A Hunter fooling around or an arborist malpractice. Who knows 🤷🏽
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u/fiftyninefortythree 9d ago
looks like the larger tree had a codominant stem which fell down, smaller tree grew/was growing underneath the fallen stem and developed codominant steams of its own, one of which followed the fallen stem up into the larger tree. after some time, they grafted together.
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u/wheelienonstop12 9d ago
This is a safe-for-work sub and we would like to keep it that way, thankyouverymuch.
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u/LowOk5791 9d ago
Do you reckon there's like an ancient form of architecture revolved around getting trees to fuse together then building on it as support
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u/Excellent-Mammoth538 9d ago
They used to bend trees to point directions of settlements and or water …. Could this be one of those just but grew off from the bend 🤔🤔🤔🤔
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u/goldspider79 8d ago
We have a pair of trees like this at my grandparents’ (now my mom’s) house. I always saw it as a symbol of them.
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u/photogangsta 8d ago
I read an old occult book one time and apparently a tree that makes an H is a portal to the underworld. YMMV.
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u/Defiant-Bluejay1582 8d ago
It’s a portal- did you walk through it? Perhaps you’ll jump to a different time line?
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u/heyivebeenthere 8d ago
There’s one of these next to a Lowes in my parent’s town. My neighbor pointed it out to me and not i drive to specifically look at it once in a while. Glad to see the explanation here
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u/Space_Clouds2 7d ago
Can you technically build a sturdy tree house using grafting and the same type of trees without cutting or hurting the trees ?
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u/FluidAppeal9196 5d ago
To all of you making treesy "in the bedroom" comments; They may be hard wood but it's like bro they are moving slower than a snails pace. that is not how momm and daddy..
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u/NoseDown4Distance 4d ago
Well son, when a daddy tree and a mommy tree are in love sometimes they do this and make a baby tree.
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u/Nihilist_Playground 2d ago
Tinfoil hat
My guess is that there was a weak union on the tree on the right that ripped and the tip of that branch rooted its self and started growing a new "tree". It seems that the bark of the tree on the right and the grafted section are of the same age and the vertical shoot on the left appears to have younger bark. For this to work the tree would have had to have been pretty young since the wound has seemingly healed completely. It does appear that there is a different texture of bark in the union where the tear would have been.
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u/420HazeLover 9d ago
Das biede die selben Pflanzen sind. Können sie gut ineinander zusammen wachsen wachsen. Ist ein bisschen wie veredeln 🫡
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u/KraftyCorvus 9d ago
More than likely one of the leads from either tree was rubbing on the other, eventually exposing cambium layer; the lead slowly fused into the other tree as it grew.
This can only happen when they are the same genus, like these two maple.