Here are some pictures of banyans, trees with aerial roots that eventually become as thick as the main trunk. By this means, a single tree can spread to cover a vast area. There is a report, from ancient times, of a single tree covering an area large enough that it could hide an entire army within it. It is a single tree of this kind that covers the whole of the Isle of Flies in […]
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Baobabs
Examples of baobabs, the trees native to the Upper Reach
Cone Trees
What are called ‘cone trees’ in the Stone Dance are trees similar to the araucaria araucana or monkey puzzle tree…
Mother Trees
Mother Trees are a species of cedar. I took the second photograph, of a beautiful example located in the Edinburgh Royal Botanic Gardens, one summer. I spent much time lying under it, looking up through its branches at the sky. Tragically, it was damaged in a storm and had to be cut down. The specimen shown is a small one. On the slopes of Lebanon, famed since ancient time for these trees, some exist that […]
