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Coral reef araucaria, Kandy Botanical Garden, Sri Lanka Planted in 1952. This curved growth path is not typical for the species if I look at other photos. Araucaria columnaris,Asia,Kandy,Sri Lanka,araucaria columnaris Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

Coral reef araucaria, Kandy Botanical Garden, Sri Lanka

Planted in 1952. This curved growth path is not typical for the species if I look at other photos.

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    travismorhardt
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    Interesting growth, indeed. I wonder if they were tampered with at a younger age. It reminds me of a forest I read about in Poland...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crooked_Forest     Posted 10 years ago
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      Ferdy Christant
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      Interesting, never heard of that forest. I do think these trees are tampered with. Perhaps they grow towards to light but if that would be a reason, it would never grow in opposing directions like this. My guess is that it was replanted several times, but I don't know much about gardening. Posted 10 years ago

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The Coral reef araucaria

Araucaria columnaris is a unique species of conifer in the Araucariaceae family. It is endemic to New Caledonia in the southwestern Pacific, where it was first classified by botanists of Captain James Cook's second voyage of exploration.

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Uploaded Mar 5, 2015. Captured Nov 10, 2014 09:57.
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  • NIKON D800
  • f/2.8
  • 1/1000s
  • ISO100
  • 24mm