There was a big storm around 2009 in the south west of France (where there are a lot of pine tree plantations); an entire generation of trees ended up looking like this.
Basically, strong continuous winds flatten very young trees without killing them. They then keep growing, with a permanent kink in trunk, near the base such as these. Not great for sawing into planks, but they work just fine to make paper and agglomerate.
It’s incredible how resilient trees are!
Bandicoot_Academic@lemmy.one 1 week ago
For anyone wondering what this is, I’m pretty sure it’s the Crooked Forest in Poland.
devfuuu@lemmy.world 1 week ago
And for the others I guess Home depot is an american thing.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Its just a hardware store with a indoor lumber yard.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
A few months ago I was following an Instagram page about sustainability and they posted this pic and claimed the trees grew like that because of a “sideways gravitational pull” 🙄. This was on what’s supposed to be a page about science. And of course there were tons of people who believed it.