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Mysterious Forest Of 400 Crooked Trees In Poland Is Still A Mystery For Scientists
There’s a small grove of regular pine trees in West Pomerania, Poland, that has become famous because of one little “twist” – all 400 of the trees located there have a strange bend at the base!
The stand of trees was planted around 1930 in what was then Germany. The trees all take a sharp 90-degree turn soon after leaving the ground before sweeping back into an upright position with a graceful curve. Their strange but beautiful nature is captured perfectly in the below photos by Kilian Schönberger, whom we’ve written about before here.
No one is certain how or why the trees were bent, but most believe that it was an intentional, mechanical process. Trees can be manipulated to create naturally bent parts for, beaots, furniture or other applications. Others have theorized that a severe snowfall could have caused the curious phenomenon.
More info: kilianschoenberger.de | Facebook | Instagram | Behance (h/t: colossal)
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JamesGowdy 10 years ago
maybe the trees where flattened by something when they where saplings and the ones that where not completely snapped grew like this.
wim 9 years ago
“My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.” ― Tom Waits
OvidiuRadu 10 years ago
no, is not a mystery. They were bend to build boats and ships but the war came and the forest was abandoned and forgotten
PeterS. 10 years ago
There is another natural explanation that is possible. Trees can grow bent in ways like this when they spend a particularly bad winter constantly burdened by snow. Judging by the height of the bends it would have occurred when they were all quite small and because of the simultaneous planting there is uniformity. I've seen this effect in plenty of single trees.
JamesGowdy 10 years ago
maybe the trees where flattened by something when they where saplings and the ones that where not completely snapped grew like this.
wim 9 years ago
“My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.” ― Tom Waits
OvidiuRadu 10 years ago
no, is not a mystery. They were bend to build boats and ships but the war came and the forest was abandoned and forgotten
PeterS. 10 years ago
There is another natural explanation that is possible. Trees can grow bent in ways like this when they spend a particularly bad winter constantly burdened by snow. Judging by the height of the bends it would have occurred when they were all quite small and because of the simultaneous planting there is uniformity. I've seen this effect in plenty of single trees.
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