Amazing Tree Houses

Wilkinson Residence

Architect, artist, magician, Robert Harvey Oshatz is all of That and so much more. He is the organic architect Responsible for this magnificent home up in the canopy; the coolest house in the trees That Likely Will you ever see. The unique Wilkinson Residence graces the wooded landscape outside of Portland, Oregon. This Treehouse would turn even the Swiss Family Robinson green with envy. More than Likely you too Will have a more than a twinge of desire to live in it. 

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Lone Cypress

This is "The Lone Cypress Tree" that stands on the rock for more than 200 years (some web sites claiming more than 250 years). I learned from a colleague Don that the trees that stood as a symbol of stability weathering time was the inspiration behind the Cypress.

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Circus Trees

In 1945, Erlandson's daughter and wife took a trip to the ocean near Santa Cruz, California. There they saw people lined up to pay to see the strangeness like building tilted in Mystery Spot. They returned home and mentioned (once only) that Axel's trees could draw people who would pay to see them if they are in a good travel route.

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Giant Sequoias

Giganteum Sequoiadendron (giant sekuoya, Sierra Redwood, Redwood Sierran, or Wellingtonia) is the only living species in the genus Sequoiadendron, and one of three types of tree species known as konifera red wood, belongs to the family Cupressaceae in the subfamily Sequoioideae, co-with Sequoia sempervirens (Coast Redwood) and Metasequoia glyptostroboides (Dawn Redwood).

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Coast redwood

Coast redwood range from southern Oregon to central California, extending not more than fifty miles inland only as far as the coastal climate has its influence. Fog plays an important role in the survival of trees, protecting them from the summer drought conditions typical of this area.

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Allouville-Bellefosse

The Chene-Chapelle (Chapel-Oak) of Allouville-Bellefosse is the most famous tree in France - in fact, more than just a tree: it is a building and religious monument all in one.

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Quaking Aspen

Aspen is the common name for trees of the Salicaceae family have, most of them in part, Populus sect. Populus, from (poplar) genus Populus Some species in this section are:.

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Montezuma Cypress

Montezuma Cypress
Common name: Montezuma Bald Cypress, Mexican Cypress, Sabino, Ahuehuete, Cipres
Botanical name: Taxodium mucronatum
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Family: Taxodiaceae

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Banyan Tree: Sri Maha Bodhi Tree

Bodhi tree (Sacred Fig) in Sri Mahabodhi Temple of Sri Maha Bodhi propagated, which in turn is propagated from the original Bodhi Tree. Mahabodhi Temple is the place where Buddha attained enlightenment.

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Bristlecone Pine

 

Bristlecone pine trees is a small group of pine trees (Family Pinaceae, genus Pinus, subsection Balfourianae), which is estimated to reach a far greater age than any other single living organism known, up to nearly 5,000 years.

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Baobab

Baobab can be found in the savannas of Africa and India, mostly around the equator. It can grow to 25 feet and can live for several thousand years. Baobab is leafless for nine months a year. If I were to describe the baobab, I would say that it looks like has been taken out of the ground and put back upside down. The trunk would-tap roots, and branches of the finer capillary roots.

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