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Forest at Sombrio Beach

Juan de Fuca Provincial Park, southwestern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

A different and closer view of a large Western hemlock tree (Tsuga heterophylla) that began life on a giant nurse log. This is one of several buttress-roots extending from its trunk.

 

www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/library/documents/treebook/westernh...

 

 

 

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Uploaded on August 13, 2016
Taken on August 7, 2013