Unknown cause for the curvature

[alpineart]

This was sent to me from a friend , i found it quite unique

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Cheers Alpineart

[chrisatrocky]

it was probably a strong force such as a cyclone/hurricane or even compression wave from an explosion or vlocanic action which knocked all the trees flat when they were young and since then they have turn back towards the sun.

chris

[Damian Bee]

Gorgeous Alpine...

[kcpoole]

thats weird, do you know where they are?

Like has been suggested, an explosion or large similar event flattened them all and they regrew like that
the asteroid in Tunguska was maybe similar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
Ken

[alpineart]

HI kc , they are in Poland , the scientific world don't seen to know why or how it has come about . If they cant figure it out , no good me trying , there only young pines 15-20 years old maximum so a recent event would have been noticed .

Cheers Alpine

[kcpoole]

that makes it all the weirder
Ken

[Andrew F]

A farmer has done it for media coverage.

[Stewart_Toowoomba]

I know from a previous visit to the north of Japan - they get HUGE drops of snow in winter. the weight of the snow holds the young tree seedlings down till the tree becomes strong enough to grow through the snow drift and then rights itself upwards towards the light.

Kyushu Dan may have some interesting insights into this one, considering his time in the land of the Rising Sun.

[EdwardH]

If this had been posted on April 1st - mystery solved.
We'll have to get Gibbs, Probie and the NCIS gang involved

[alpineart]

Well its got people thinking , but if it was a snow drift of heavy snow fall half of the Northern Hemisphere would have bent plantation pines The ground is rather flat for a snow drift ??. One would think a scientist would be able to nail the cause down .I have seen a few tree like this up here , apparently its a parasitic wasp which causes a similar distortion , sometimes resulting in a full circle rotation and back up towards the sky , this can happen to any part of the trunk , be it the base of the tree or 4-5 meters up from the ground usually on young pines under 10 yeas old and only on the Monterey pines .

Cheers Alpineart

[Glenda]

There are two bends in most of those trees, first to the right, then back to the left. Many of them the apex is now above the base. They weren't just knocked over then grew straight upward. Very strange indeed.......
Glenda

[alpineart]

It is very strange indeed , maybe some bonsai collector decided to wire down the trunks in a plot with the expectation of collecting later on in the future , then forgot about them . I know myself i have hundreds of pre trimmed /trained tree's in the wild that i will never collect .Maybe someday some individual will stumble across them and attempt to dig them out of they will just revert back to unusual contorted trunks . Mother Nature can produce some awesome effects that Scientists can't work out .

Cheers Alpine

[irish]

Hi.

Twas THOR god of thunder, did let go a ripper he did.

Regards.
Irish.

[Craig]

It is very strange indeed

alpine, here's a tree thats much the same as the ones posted,

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[alpineart]

Hi Craig , surely Rocket Scientists could work out if they were chop tops . I have a couple of big trunks very similar in development .Considering the fact that the surrounding tree's are of similar size i don't think that they were cut off . Cheers Alpine