The above is a Chinese Red Birch. As the the pale golden bark of the Chinese red birch peels away it reveals the white trunk beneath. (Source)
looks like a bacon tree almost
^ two kinds of people
Could we genetically engineer a tree to produce bacon fruit? Could it passable replicate the taste and texture? What would this mean for the world’s pigs?
A Forest Service worker photographed a fire burning inside a tree. He said there is no filter on the photo, rather, the fire is so hot this is its actual color.
No one seems to know why there’s an orange alligator in a pond near Charleston. Residents joke the gator used too much self-tanning lotion. Residents living near the pond in Hanahan say they’ve seen the orange or rust-colored alligator a number of times. Photos show the 4- to 5-foot-long alligator on the banks of a retention pond at the Tanner Plantation neighborhood. Jay Butfiloski with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources says the color may come from where the animal spent the winter, perhaps in a rusty steel culvert pipe. Experts say the alligator will shed its skin and probably return to a normal shade soon. (Source)
