Actually, the picture of the tree itself isn't doctored, but the space ship
has been added.
Dwight

"P van Rijckevorsel" wrote in message
...
The picture is of a Bristlecone Pine located in the White Mountains
of
California/Nevada

Iris Cohen schreef
Are you sure? Of course many conifers other than junipers exhibit
similar
behavior in nature. The difference with junipers is that you can never cut
off a branch & have the trunk callus over. With pine trees, you can make a
jin if you want one, or cut the branch off if you choose to. Pines callus
over eventually.

Iris,

+ + +

Let's keep some perspective here. The original question was about a story
(hearsay) of a long-lived tree in the west of the US. The story likely
concerns the bristlecone pine, but who knows?

The person asking the question found a picture on the internet to
illustrate
this, with no more than a suggestion that this might be the tree in
question.

The picture in question has been doctored to fit into the Star Wars
Universe
and actually there is no guarantee that the trunk and the green stuff at
the
top belong to the same organism (although they are likely to, people being
lazy). The green stuff might just as well be one of Iris's bonsai's pasted
in. The only thing we do know is that the picture has been doctored so as
to
look like nothing on earth. Trying to identify this tree is like
speculating
on extraterrestrial botany:

"Are Junipers actually invaders coming from Mars?"
(This would also answer Iris's question on wound closure)
PvR