(Quena) wrote in message . com...
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What is this tree called? I found an unlabelled pictu

http://www.forceacademy.com/Imagesto...esert_tree.jpg

Here are a couple of images that might be of a similar tree,
for what it's worth ...

http://www.andrewsmithgallery.com/ex...nn/ju1099.html

http://peabody-13867.fas.harvard.edu/landscape.html

I's say, from the needle shape, that it might be a pine,
perhaps a limber pine, _Pinus flexilis_.
The damage to the lower part of the trunk might be fire-related,
perhaps from a lightning strike.

Daryl Krupa