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Just a little natural history drawing from the cache of the airship Hollander. ‘Plumb’ trees (their trunks are shaped like lead weights) are not uncommon throughout the civic landscape of Calais. They grow relatively straight and true, with roots tending not to crack pavement, and their spreading canopies offer winsome shade in summer. Their thick trunks branch at middle height; there the bark is riddled with seed-retaining crevices and pores excreting nourishing compounds. In plumb tree forests, the result is a false undergrowth layer fifty feet in the air, over a lightless abyss devoid of competing plant life. There the tree roots reap the benefits of all the organic detritus that drifts down through the layers of forest. In civic gardening, however, plumb trees are typically kept apart, with the trunks of each tree often hosting appealing assortments of symbionts picked by horticulturists.

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{A nod to the stone pines of Rome, and also baobabs.)

Instagram: www.instagram.com/tiang.pong/

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Description
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Just a little natural history drawing from the cache of the airship Hollander. ‘Plumb’ trees (their trunks are shaped like lead weights) are not uncommon throughout the civic landscape of Calais. They grow relatively straight and true, with roots tending not to crack pavement, and their spreading canopies offer winsome shade in summer. Their thick trunks branch at middle height; there the bark is riddled with seed-retaining crevices and pores excreting nourishing compounds. In plumb tree forests, the result is a false undergrowth layer fifty feet in the air, over a lightless abyss devoid of competing plant life. There the tree roots reap the benefits of all the organic detritus that drifts down through the layers of forest. In civic gardening, however, plumb trees are typically kept apart, with the trunks of each tree often hosting appealing assortments of symbionts picked by horticulturists.

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{A nod to the stone pines of Rome, and also baobabs.)

Instagram: www.instagram.com/tiang.pong/

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