Mildly interesting
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Life finds a way.
The thinner tree was cut years ago and the big one has been holding and feeding it since then. They "wake up" together in the spring and "go to sleep" together in the autumn’
Inosculation is a natural phenomenon in which parts of two different trees, commonly but not exclusively the same species, grow together, self grafting and sharing nutrients
The term emanates from latin- ōsculārī, to kiss
Rebecca Herbert - Environmental Journalist, Tired Earth
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@89th said in Mildly interesting:
IIRC (not that I was there) she did this trick during air shows.
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The German Kaiser-class dreadnought battleship SMS Prinzregent Luitpold being towed back to Rosyth, keel uppermost.
This is one of many German ships sunk by her crew in Scapa Flow in 1919 after the fleet had surrendered in November 1918.
Although they were scuttled to prevent Allied Forces from using the vessels, some were salvaged and used for scrap metal to manufacture British armaments.