It is native to South Central and Southwest China. The leaves are mostly 10–20 cm long and 7–15 cm wide and are ovate to heart-shaped. Davidia involucrata is best known for its inflorescence that features white bracts surrounding a purplish-red flower head. Each flower head with a pair of large (12–25 cm), pure white bracts at the base performing the function of petals. On a breezy day, the bracts flutter in the wind like white doves or pinched handkerchiefs, hence the English names for this tree.

Brooklyn Botanical Garden, NYC

www.bbg.org

I love how a grove of trees gives away the water stream it thrives from.

the fragile and the small

English Oak

The Rainy Season is here,and so are the Mushrooms.

i think that it looks as though the trees beyond are on fire.

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Zeiss Contax 135 mm f/2.8

Film texture with DXO Film Pack 5

Over the years I have shot these two trees often in every kind of weather...

Phoenix Park

……Trees have something to admire in every season as far as I’m concerned, this view up the River Severn is from the Kingsland Toll bridge in Shrewsbury. Taken on my phone in Apple RAW and edited in Lightroom. Alan:-)…….

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©Alan Foster. All rights reserved. Do not use without permission.……

I wish this tree was in my yard, but it is a neighbors yard. It looks very well cared for. Mimosa trees are slow to put out leaves in the spring and this one is just now at peak viewing.

Cabinteely

The lone tree will survive the winter winds. See you in the spring. From out hiking.

HTT

Trees in the norwgian forest when the fog is thick

We hiked a couple miles down into the Grand Canyon on the Grandview Trail. Many lovely trees along that trail. It was originally constructed by miners to connect the rim with copper mines. The trail is narrow and steep with a drop off on one side.

Happy Tree-mendous Tuesday!

This little one is always near the top part of the rain barrel when the lid is taken off.

St. Enda's Park

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.

Texture Kerstin Frank

Looking out my old bathroom window i would often see this tree in different colour's as the sun went down.

This is the photo that was used to create the previous Wombo image and also the Deep Dream image prior to that.

Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky. We fell them and turn them into newspapers that we may record our emptiness.

-Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)

Tree Swallow at Bombay Hook

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The Tree Sparrow is a scarce bird of farmland, hedgerows and woodland edges, and is not associated with man in the way that the House Sparrow is in the UK. Tree Sparrows mate for life; they nest in holes in trees and can produce two or three broods a year, each containing up to seven eggs. They eat seeds, weeds, cereals and also insects. RSPB Bempton, Yorkshire

Joshua Tree National Park

A tree trunk is round / for good reason. // Your glance moves different / when confronted with a rectangular beam.

Sunrise at Holly Shelter Swamp

Tree Pipit Powys Wales UK

Tree sparrow (Passer montanus) perched on a barbed wire.

Mazurek (Passer montanus) siedzący na drucie kolczastym.

Tree sparrow (passer montanus) perched on a branch.

Mazurek (Passer montanus) siedzący na gąłęzi.

Dead trees near Baraque Michel in the High Fens, Wallonia, Belgium

Tote Bäume bei Baraque Michel, Hohes Venn, Wallonische Region, Belgien

Alberi morti vicino Baraque Michel, Hautes Fagnes, Vallonia,

Belgio

NEX-7 with with adapted manual lens