Bridegroom's Oak: The Tree With Its Own Postal Address
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 7, 2017
Bräutigamseiche, Dodauer Forst, 23701 Eutin, Germany If you write a letter addressed to the address above, it will end up in knothole of an...
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The Frankincense Trees of Wadi Dawkah
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 11, 2017
For more than 5,000 years, the Arabs have traded two highly prized fragrances —frankincense and myrrh— obtained from trees that grow exclusi...
Trees Made Famous by Movies, Music, Art And Literature
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 22, 2016
Movies, music and literature has brought fame to millions, but not all celebrities are humans. Sometimes, a tree becomes the unexpected cent...
8 Living Memorials Shaped Out of Trees
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 15, 2016
Building a memorial out of stone and concrete is one way to pay tribute to a person, but a truly unique and symbolic way of memorializing so...
The Giant Eucalyptus of Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 19, 2016
Most eucalyptus trees are moderately-sized but come to their native land, Australia, and you will be surprised at how tall these trees can g...
Quiver Tree Forest, Namibia
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 7, 2016
The Quiver Tree Forest is located about 14 km north-east of the town of Keetmanshoop, on the road to the small village of Koës, in southern ...
The Tree That Was Arrested
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 6, 2016
In the Landi Kotal army cantonment area in present-day Pakistan, there is a banyan tree that is kept chained to the ground as if to prevent ...
Survivor Trees Around The World
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 16, 2016
Every now and then, a calamity —either natural or man-made— strikes humanity and just when it appears that no living being could survive the...
The Ancient Yew Forest of Kingley Vale
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 11, 2016
Tucked between Stoke Down and Bow Hill, near the village of West Stoke about three miles north west of Chichester, in West Sussex in souther...
Cedars of Lebanon, The Cedars of God
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 9, 2016
The Lebanon Cedar or cedrus libani is one of the most majestic trees of the world. They grow exclusively on Mount Lebanon, a mountain range...
The Boab Prison Trees of Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 18, 2016
The Australian baobab tree, a relative to the baobabs of Madagascar and mainland Africa, is a large tree with a big swollen trunk that resem...
The Drive-Through Trees of California
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 7, 2016
The giant redwoods of Northern California are the biggest trees in the world with trunks so thick that it’s possible to carve a small drivew...
Carving Dead Trees Into Public Art
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2016
Trees have long life spans, but eventually they too die of old age or succumb to diseases or get damaged in thunderstorms and hurricanes. Wh...
The Valley of Square Trees
Kaushik Patowary
May 7, 2016
Inside the flat wide caldera of the dormant volcano of El Valle, in Panama, is a town that goes by the same name. Here, in the foothills of ...
The Jail Tree of Wickenburg
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 18, 2015
In the town of Wickenburg in Arizona, there is a 200-year old mesquite tree that according to legend, served as the town’s “hoosegow” betwee...
Do Walking Palm Trees Really Walk?
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2015
A recently published article on BBC’s website mentions a certain palm tree that has allegedly developed a rather unique ability unbecoming ...
The Ginkgo Avenue in Tokyo
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 4, 2015
Ginkgo biloba, also known as the maidenhair tree, is widely cultivated in many urban areas around the world as an ornamental and shade tree....
The Oak in a Dovecote, Béceleuf
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 23, 2015
In the old days, the possession of a dovecote was a symbol of status and power, and only the nobles had the privilege of owning one. Breedin...
Crooked, Drunken And Dancing Forests
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 14, 2015
A tree, when left to its own device, will normally grow straight. But when the tree is young and its trunk is tender, it can be forced to gr...
The Fire Lookout Trees of Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 5, 2015
In many forest areas in the United States, Canada and Australia, there are fire lookout towers manned by persons called the "fire looko...
