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Below is a smattering collage of tree burls, parasitic lesions and deformities that we have seen over our past 5 months of hiking. I have gotten tired of photographing them, so have decided to go ahead and post that which I have instead of waiting for the end of our adventure…
Milander Adventures 2015 AT 
Amazing and really quite beautiful! It isn’t just humans that grow tumors and painful deformities. Your pictures grow my heart! 🙂
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An amazing number of those look like phalluses! I like #372, reminds me of Guernica. #92 looks like a donkey trying to mate with a totem pole.
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I see elephant feet, and other suggestions that trees may have been decapitated by cannon shot at some time in their infancy, and then overcome this by sending up a side sprout that eventually overcame the original decapitation. We saw these at a hillside civil war battlefield west of Atlanta several years ago. Mike and mother Kitty
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