Strange new tree found in Canada!
Its been a while since I last posted an article, but its been a busy couple of months for me, I hope to start posting again soon. Anyhow I have lived in the east kootenays all my life and worked in every corner of the valley, for 25 years I have been driving past this tree on the side of the hiway, it looks different than all of the trees around it, I remember when I was a kid my dad told me " Thats the cauliflower tree, its the only one left" well I finally stoped and took a few pictures of it to try to identify it, I spent a good amount of time trying to find it on the internet but have not turned up a single tree that looks like it, Im not shure if its a special tree or not but here are the pictures, if anyone can identify it post here and let the rest of us know what it is.Click to enlarge
The tree as it stands in the middle of a Xmas tree patch
The bark of the tree
3 Comments:
Your Dad was right. Sure looks like a cauliflower. See what it tastes like.
It looks like a douglas-fir tree that has root disease (the dead middle branches) and a top that has hormone problems at the apex, hence the multiple tops. Doug-fir is my guess. Bryan Taylor
Yakima, WA
I would like to say that this isnt the only tree of its kind. I have seen many similar to it in northern Alberta. There is one area where pretty much all the trees look like this. They actually tried to quarantine them of sorts. Cut lines and pulled out the affected trees etc. The disease that causes this is called Dwarf Mistletoe Disease. It affects Lodgepole pine, ponderosa pine, whitebark pine, bristlecone pine, limber pine, mugo or mountain pine, scots or scotch pine, Engelmann spruce, blue spruce, subalpine fir, just to name a few.
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