Found on Tumblr. Plants are weird.
A list of the subsequent commentary.
"Circus Tree: Six individual sycamore trees were shaped, bent, and braided to form this."
"how the hell do you bend and braid a tree"
"Actually pretty easy. Trees don’t reject tissue from other trees in the same family. You bend the tree to another tree when it is a sapling, scrape off the bark on both trees where they touch, add some damp sphagnum moss around them to keep everything slightly moist and bind them together.
Then wait a few years- The trees will have grown together.
You can use a similar technique to graft a lemon branch or a lime branch or even both- onto an orange tree and have one tree that has all three fruits.
Frankentrees."
"As a biologist I can clearly state that plants are fucking weird and you should probably be slightly afraid of them."
Yep, so. Finals week. Internet. Procrastination. Tree braiding.
