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Posted by wilson090 16 hours ago

List of individual trees(en.wikipedia.org)
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divbzero 9 hours ago|
One of Wikipedia’s greatest contributions is collecting records like this that wouldn’t appear in a traditional encyclopedia.
fudgybiscuits 8 hours ago|
Yeah you can bet the Fuck Tree wouldn't make it into any encyclopedia.
y-curious 3 hours ago||
Have you considered that you just aren’t reading the cool encyclopedias?
rmunn 9 hours ago||
But does the article include a handy list of How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away?
rplnt 9 hours ago||
However obscure this page might be, I was there just a few days ago. Clicked on it from this article about a tree that was cut down, and it was apparently a big thing in the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycamore_Gap_tree
domh 8 hours ago||
This was huge news in the UK when it happened. Massive public uproar for an illegal felling. The perpetrators were both jailed: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6295zv9101o
jcul 7 hours ago|||
I can understand the outrage. Was there any motivation given for why they cut it down? Just vandalism?
nephihaha 4 hours ago|||
I've been following the story for a while and it has never been adequately explained by mainstream media. Consider this... They drove for over an hour in the middle of the night in foul weather to a remote location to cut down a particular tree. That suggests some preplanning.
domh 6 hours ago|||
Yeah I think so. Attention seeking, maybe something to do with a planning application to live somewhere being rejected too: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn811px4m7mo

Honestly it's my first time looking at the story for a while! I just knew they got jail time for it.

comrade1234 8 hours ago|||
"What are you in for?"
vanderZwan 6 hours ago||
I remember that incident! As a side-effect I discovered that beautiful panorama picture[0], which was perfect for my two-monitors-plus-laptop-screen set-up aside from the low resolution, so I used my stippling notebook[1] to hide that a little bit[2]. I could probably tweak the stippling settings a bit to have prettier output, but it's been my wallpaper for over two years now.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Sycamore...

[1] https://observablehq.com/@jobleonard/a-fast-colored-stipple-...

[2] https://blindedcyclops.neocities.org/sycamore_gap_tree_pano/... https://blindedcyclops.neocities.org/sycamore_gap_tree_pano/... https://blindedcyclops.neocities.org/sycamore_gap_tree_pano/...

felineflock 6 hours ago||
I clicked expecting some catalog of data structures but it was a pleasant surprise.
1970-01-01 2 hours ago||
I asked ChatGPT to infer some facts from this list and it hallucinated an entire tree.
kilroy123 6 hours ago||
Slightly off topic but does anyone know where to get a huge dataset of tree images? I'm talking millions.
hopelite 2 hours ago||
The saddest part of this is that we really have no idea just how many or the oldest redwood trees that were felled in California and on the western cost of the USA that were possibly multiple thousands of years old, i.e., 4000 years, possibly even 6000 years based on old images and accounts of trees, and that's just what we do have signals about.

Side note; there are several places in Europe where Sequoias were planted at various times and are basically infants at 150-200 years old, having been brought back to Europe by explorers and aristocrats.

tectonic 7 hours ago||
Of course: https://m.xkcd.com/2977/
fuzztester 8 hours ago||
Adyar banyan tree in Chennai is missing.

https://www.ts-adyar.org/banyan-tree

oasisbob 2 hours ago|
Ahhh, that is fantastic tree. I've been there, it's in a really nice quiet place. Huge!
globular-toast 9 hours ago|
I noticed the "bicycle tree" in Scotland which has encapsulated a bicycle amongst other things as it has grown. It reminded me of a very old graveyard I would play in as a kid. The oldest side was all old trees and one day I noticed one of the trees had a couple of gravestones up in its boughs. I always wondered if these were really lifted up there by the tree and if so whether that's unusual.
rplnt 9 hours ago||
I would check here for examples: https://old.reddit.com/r/TreesSuckingOnThings/
oasisbob 2 hours ago||
Trees don't grow in a manner which can typically lift things. It's really unusual - and requires either distinct circumstances, or highly technical measurements between gauge pins.

Those gravestones had help getting up there.

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