Well the only way to be sure how extensive the picture has been doctored is
to know either the tree or the original picture. Obviously the gray thing in
the middle (a "space ship" you say?) has been added and the edges have been
obscured to reduce clarity. Likely that is the extent of it, but who knows?
PvR

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

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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,

"P van Rijckevorsel" wrote

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