Small things: Debarked tree root with bark and leaves, near Batemans Bay
Debarked tree root with bark and leaves, near Batemans Bay.
Actually on a punishing track that took us out to a wind-tossed headland. We stood on what I am sure was a crumbling edge & looked down on waves crashing over a rock platform way below. All the vegetation was stunted. What surprised me about this root sticking up out of the track (note the photographer's foot with sore toe) was that it had bark so was more like part of the trunk or a branch. Stringy bark do this - push their branches underground - as a conservation strategy, so perhaps this tree was doing similar.
[Debarked tree root w bark+leaves_nrBatemansBay_IMG_1998]
Small things: Debarked tree root with bark and leaves, near Batemans Bay
Debarked tree root with bark and leaves, near Batemans Bay.
Actually on a punishing track that took us out to a wind-tossed headland. We stood on what I am sure was a crumbling edge & looked down on waves crashing over a rock platform way below. All the vegetation was stunted. What surprised me about this root sticking up out of the track (note the photographer's foot with sore toe) was that it had bark so was more like part of the trunk or a branch. Stringy bark do this - push their branches underground - as a conservation strategy, so perhaps this tree was doing similar.
[Debarked tree root w bark+leaves_nrBatemansBay_IMG_1998]