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Some Unusual Trees

https://thoughts.wyounas.com/p/some-unusual-trees

42•simplegeek•2h ago

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hermitcrab•1h ago

The UK has quite a few ancient yew trees. Some may be over 2000 years old. Often they are in church grounds (because ones that weren't got cut down to make long bows perhaps?).

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2025/08/ancient-yew-tr...

madaxe_again•1h ago

One of the many nice things about nature is that almost everything is interesting and unique in some particular way, be it longevity, size, or far more specific traits, across all species, all domains of natural science.

nvalis•1h ago

Related and also interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individual_trees

sheept•1h ago

On mobile, this website seems to prevent you from pinch zooming in, which makes it slightly inconvenient to quickly zoom into the photos of the trees.

mbeex•1h ago

Can do it on Ironfox Android (quite a forbidding browser) without problems. Not even JavaScript is allowed here.

volemo•1h ago

Wasn't sure which kind of trees to expect. :D

woadwarrior01•1h ago

I was expecting something closer to Van Emde Boas trees. :D

smusamashah•56m ago

The traveller tree looked the most interesting, like a peacock's feather.

https://www.indefenseofplants.com/blog/2017/12/12/the-travel...

simquat•51m ago

In Calabria — the very south of Italy — there this[0] 1000-years-old plane tree.

[0]https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platano_di_Vrisi

cluckindan•44m ago

Related: There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)

https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-th...

tomaskafka•14m ago

Thank you! Isn’t it amazing how a rigid hierarchical categorization system fails everywhere you actually look into details? See also category theory vs prototype theory.

Mistletoe•23m ago

I like to imagine aliens visiting earth and walking straight past us and communing with Pando.

> Recent 2024 analysis confirmed it is at least 16,000 years old, with possibilities ranging up to 80,000 years, making it one of the oldest living organisms.

Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw

759•firloop•12h ago•596 comments

Some Unusual Trees

https://thoughts.wyounas.com/p/some-unusual-trees

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443•bookofjoe•18h ago•108 comments

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392•kykeonaut•19h ago•199 comments

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130•summarity•4d ago•18 comments

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66•eichin•11h ago•39 comments

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164•uticus•18h ago•22 comments

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209•lxm•8h ago•152 comments

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162•arjunbajaj•20h ago•30 comments

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503•tjwds•19h ago•1124 comments

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119•performative•13h ago•28 comments

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32•andsoitis•5h ago•27 comments

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136•veqq•17h ago•209 comments

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413•detaro•11h ago•121 comments

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