I love this tree's fight for survival

[Josh]

I went for a walk with my daughter last night and came across this tree. I love it's determination to survive.

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With all the rot and decay it still puts on a show.

Josh

[Newbie.mia]

Wow what an amazing looking tree thanks for sharing.


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[MoGanic]

Wow. Stunning.

[GavinG]

Might be a single flowering cherry - great find! Very dynamic trunk, and wild waving branches.

Thanks for posting,

Gavin

[bodhidharma]

What a great looking tree and what we aspire to capture in miniature.

[Josh]

It has some awesome deadwood in it yet still pumps out flowers and keeps on going.

What a great looking tree and what we aspire to capture in miniature.

When I saw this Bodhi I first thought, imagine if that was in a pot but I still don't know if we can get something to look this realistic in a pot.

Josh

[Damian Bee]

What a beauty

[Hackimoto]

Looks like one of the flowering pears to me. pyrus calleryana maybe. http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q ... kAWXoICgBg

[shibui]

Those spines could well be Pyrus calleriana but though the leaves, though they are not very well defined yet, look a little more like plum from here. I have not seen an old specimen of P. calleriana but the bark does not look like the specimens I know either.
Possibly Prunus spinosa??? though I'm not sure what mature Prunus spinosa bark should look like either.