Oct 4th, 2017: Trees Dining

Nature sometime moves very quickly, like hurricanes, Monsoons, and Tornadoes. These always make the
news and get our attention. Sometimes we see nature has been moving so slowly we hadn’t noticed until
it has partially swallowed something. Nature can use moving soil or rock or ice, but mostly trees.



I’ve seen trees eating… make that having eaten… all sorts of wires, signs, sidewalks, and pipes.
The net has brought us trees eating bikes, fire hydrants, cars, old stone temples and all sorts of things that
refused to move. I admit the tree eating the bridge is a new one.



Trees pushing over grave stones, sometimes breaking them is fairly common in old cemeteries.



But this is a new one on me. I’m amazed that tree could smother that stone without breaking or
even moving it. But I guess it doesn't matter because the tree ate whoever the stone was for, long ago.



Flickr has a page dedicated to trees eating things.

link

delicate task, cutting that tree down next to that historic stone.

I've had fence wire come flying outta my saw a few times. Ya hit nails, bolts, old axe heads. Whut? Yeah, Precious, I sawed into an axe head once.

glatt;996671 wrote:

delicate task, cutting that tree down next to that historic stone.

Maybe Lieutenant John Forsythe of Company L of the 102nd Pennsylvania Infantry, was helping them.;)

Kudzu does it better:
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2017/10/kudzu-the-good-plant-gone-bad.html

Diaphone Jim;996768 wrote:

Kudzu does it better

Kudzu does it quicker. I don't know about better.

Diaphone Jim;996768 wrote:

Kudzu does it better:
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2017/10/kudzu-the-good-plant-gone-bad.html

If people would eat it and feed it to livestock it would be a start. It's been used by the Chinese forever and used to treat alcoholics. When big pharma finds a use for it the stuff will vanish.