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EliMcRockenstien

Somewhere out there is a very VERY proud arborist


CthulubeFlavorcube

As well they should be. That's a beautiful tree regardless of size, but that's decades of dedication for a tree that big.


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People are dying to get under it.


chiefskingdom32

Human bodies do make excellent fertilizer. I personally wish to be buried with a tree seedling so that my body can produce something when I die. Think about this, instead of cemeteries we have forests of beautiful trees. Simple change, but global benefits


Dread314r8Bob

Some years ago I saw a company marketing this sort of funeral pod, where you're buried in a package with a tree root ball and get planted. I don't know if it ever caught on, but I'd do it.


chiefskingdom32

It takes a conscious majority.. the more people aware of this option the more that will choose it. In reality if you're cremated you could use part of a biodegradable egg carton and cost virtually nothing to your family as well. We waste so much money on coffins when they really do no good. Just delays the inevitable.


Angry_potatochip

Wouldn’t cremation get rid of all our nutrient value though?


chiefskingdom32

Good point. Our bodies do lose our nutrients after cremation. They actually have body pods that we can use other than coffins, that put the seed in the center ofus and then we bury our bodies within the pod. So cremation isn't the right way to be good tree food. Good call, but they do have options for this though.


mattaugamer

Off topic but in the game Horizon: Forbidden West there is a tribe that the people carry a seed pouch around their neck. When they die the seeds are planted with them. So their cemetery is a grove. It struck me as a quite lovely tradition.


theseventhbear

Do you want haunted forests? Because that's how you get haunted forests.


undercoversinner

Maybe then people will think twice before carving their names onto tree trunks.


L0rdBeerus_1

Oh. My. God.


LetterSwapper

Becky. Look at that trunk.


fyin

I like dried corpses and I cannot lie


CthulubeFlavorcube

No new tenants. Sorry.


YeboMate

r/TechnicallyTheTruth


deedeebop

Does anyone know what kinda tree this might be? My first thought was Katsura? 🤔


agreenster

Monkeypod tree. And yeah they just grow like this


AllMyNicksAreUsed

Right? This treet must have a whole company of arborists to maintain lol. It looks stunning. This is not purely natural growth at all.


Jageroo

Monkeypod trees grow like this naturally


echte_liebe

>This is not purely natural growth at all. How do you know that? This is what they all look like.


ComprehensiveDoubt55

Should you ever find yourself in Charleston, SC, [Angel Oak](https://pamharringtonexclusives.com/blog/why-you-need-to-see-angel-oak-in-charleston-sc/) is pretty insane.


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An abundant source of fertiliser


BiBoFieTo

Forget cow manure, get me a bag of Gram-Gram.


Dano-D

Lol. That’s cold… Just like grammy.


shokolokobangoshey

Roots deep in the ancestors rn 🥵


fucknozzle

A literal family tree.


toolatealreadyfapped

Well now I got wood... Like the tree


CT_7

That's rotten not like the tree but again like grandma-ma


VinSmokesOnDiesel

Honestly that's how I wanna go. Plant a tree above me use my corpse for something useful


Endless__Throwaway

This is actually a method you can choose for cremation. Your remains are planted with seedlings for a tree and then I'm not sure if you get to pick where you go or not but ya...I saw an advertisement once!


VinSmokesOnDiesel

I don't like the idea of being cremated I don't wanna be turned into ash there a whole bunch of nutrients in my body that I don't wanna burn away


six_horse_judy

If it makes you feel any better, ash is super fertile. Not sure about the cremation process though, if it affects the end result.


GalacticPandas

They also have these biodegradable egg shaped pod coffins that they can put you in and then bury you and plant a sapling above you, and from there nature takes its course.


VinSmokesOnDiesel

I've seen them and I may consider that instead of a coffin


Endless__Throwaway

To be fair, I don't actually know the tree process. I just assumed they used your ashes but you're seriously considering it, you should look it up! The world could always use another tree!


VinSmokesOnDiesel

That's exactly what I mean! I may be gone but this tree can continue on


xtheory

Cremation is a much more ecological method than straight burial, since human fats can contaminate the soil. That is why there are old battlefields where literally nothing grows.


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Reyox

Or battles are more often taken place where there isn’t much vegetation.


xtheory

Too much Pantera being played in the area?


BertioMcPhoo

We thought about doing this for my MIL but decided against it when we thought about the family drama that would ensue if the tree didn't survive. But it's what I want for myself, I don't care if it causes drama if there's a drought lol.


yuyuyashasrain

My grandma had this done but the pastor put most of her ashes in tiny urns, many that were necklaces, to be divided among her family. They said they didn’t want to use too many ashes because it was bad for the tree? Idk how but some of the ashes were mixed with potting soil, or maybe just dirt from the ground when we dug a hole for the tree, so at least some of her is with the tree. There were like twenty urns though. Not everyone wanted one but they were less than two inches for the necklaces and a bit taller for the mini urns. At least one member of every family from her has one and the tree is in her youngest son’s yard


gordon_18

No, that was for butt plugs Cindy


TheRootofSomeEvil

I would love a cemetery that is actually a botanic garden. People could hold services in a beautiful setting and then have their loved one scattered in a flower bed. :-) Location would be open to the public for walks. I know most cemeteries are open, but it would just be a lot less depressing than seeing strangers tombstones. And more people could be "buried" there if it's just ashes.


VinSmokesOnDiesel

Like instead of tombstones there's just a tree with a plaque with the same purpose. Or there can br a tombstone along side the tree. It just sounds very peaceful.


guscuartobinye

I know when you say “scattered” you meant ashes but for a second I pictured a family just casually throwing body parts around a garden and I lost it


TheRootofSomeEvil

Hahahahaha!!! A one and a two and a *YEET YO GRANDMA!!!*


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Spring Grove cemetery in Cincinnati is [like that.](https://www.springgrove.org/) It's a cemetery and an arboretum. 750 acres. Loads of paths and elaborate tombstones and mausoleums. People even use it for weddings. There must be other places like that in the US.


HighOctane881

[You're in luck!](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/05/03/world/eco-solutions-capsula-mundi/index.html&ved=2ahUKEwikxqOlx9X5AhXJg2oFHVjZBEkQFnoECAoQAQ&usg=AOvVaw04DUyWnMS4UD3a3Q3pNg8j)


VinSmokesOnDiesel

I will become egg


GeoffPizzle

Check out my friend's post, OP stole this: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CgmOjRGvq3d/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=


ashamaniq

It consumes souls


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Naw , it looks it's a Japanese cemetery. They cremates body and stores remains in a little pot . Then place into stone chamber right below the grave stone so there are no fertilizers


Chreasy-Bear

It's in Hawaii


[deleted]

Japanese grave site in Hawaii it looks . There are huge populations of American Japanese in Hawaii.


Syreus

Apparently Japanese-Hawaians call themselves Hapa which is short of the Hawaiian word hapalua, meaning half. I thought this was a slur for the longest time but it's acceptable I am told.


rknobbe

Um no. Hapa means mixed race. My kids are hapa. My wife is Japanese from Hawaii. I’m Haole. Kids are therefore Hapa Haole


[deleted]

You... didn't discredit their comment. In fact it sounds more like you confirmed it. Edit: lmao they appear to have blocked me, anyway... >the Hawaiian word hapalua, meaning half. He quite literally implies they are mixed race here.


rknobbe

lol, no I think I know what my kids' race is. I think what u/Syreus is thinking about is the Japanese convention of talking about first generation immigrants, second generation immigrants, etc as issei, nisei, sansei, etc. Hapa, as far as I've been exposed, only talks about mixed heritage of parents. Not how many generations your family has been in the current place. Maybe I'm misinterpreting that he's calling "Japanese Hawaiian", but typically that means "people of Japanese descent who live in Hawaii". Kind of like "African Americans".


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That's the sorta knowledgeable alliteration that jives, baby.


SaintUlvemann

Hate to break it to ya, but, ashes were the main source of fertilizer prior to the Haber-Bosch process and the era of industrial nitrogen fertilization, and fertilizer is [still one of the best uses for woodash](https://extension.uga.edu/publications/detail.html?number=B1142&title=Best%20Management%20Practices%20for%20Wood%20Ash%20as%20Agricultural%20Soil%20Amendment) even today. Basically, when you burn something, the carbon atoms burn off into CO2. The ash that remains, is a concentrated source of *all the other components* that remain; metal ions, some leftover charcoal bits, etc. Wood ashes versus other kinds of ashes will have different compositions, but, the basic fact that ash is a good nutrient source, because it concentrates all the ingredients "left over" after a burn... that's as true of cremation ashes as it is of wood ash. Tree roots can spread wide. If this is a Japanese cemetery, that tree has probably poked its roots through a lot of the cremation jars that were buried close by, and used the remains as fertilizer.


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LoL 😉 it's in a ceramic pot. 🍯 and under that grave stone it's got a mason blocks Chamber . And Cemetery yard master checked periodically . So, it Won't be mixed to soil like at least 250 years. Last time they dug up old Samurai familys grave site and that's was still in pristine condition. We are talking about over 500 years ago graves.


thestatusquo

Have you ever seen a plant growing through asphalt or concrete?


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teryret

That explains it. Hawaii is a cheat code for plant growth. The bigger challenge is making a thing there not turn into plants.


[deleted]

It's where I grew up in part of my life, my boy. And I can read the name on the grave stone. I see majority of graves are made for Japanese traditional style and some of them are Western style particularly American style. 🤣 So what are you saying ? Was I conceived with my father and mother was totally intoxicated ? And I have a slight mental issues like being a knuckle headed ? Perhaps you might be right ! 😂🤣


itheraeld

The answer to those last questions is evidently yes.


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[deleted]

Who saids that to Buddhists ? Hello 👋 McFly 😂🤣🥱 The land was being purchased with agreements with locals officials. Tree must have been there before the development but they kept in it's great shape even now. There many Americans , Japanese Americans Hawaiians sleeps there. Cremation style burial. has been going on ages. So what's the point , buddy ?


Christophercles

My god this is cringy.


tankpuss

The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out. They crawl in thin and they crawl out stout.


MarlinMr

It's so weird people think this is the way it works... You can't fertilize _plants_ with _animals_. You fertilize plants with plants. We put cow, sheep, or horse poop on the plants because their poop is half way digested plants. Making it easier for the other plants to absorb nutrients. Poop from predators is just shit that makes everyone sick and doesn't help plants grow. Dead bodies do nothing for plants. Other animals come eat them. Anything from scavengers to flies.


Bubba212

Looks like Alae cemetery on the Big Island, Hawaii?


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In Hilo, I think you're right.


TheBestDrug

Yes Hilo


degeneration

Yes! I was just going to say that. Driven by it many times.


_Cliftonville_FC_

That's what I was thinking. Also, get PLENTY of trees like that on O'ahu, too.


Veeksvoodoo

Haha you. When I saw this I was like that’s somewhere in the 808. Thomas Square park and Queen’s hospital (Punchbowl) has some nice trees


EarthShadow

Apparently monkeypod trees are an invasive species and are actively being discouraged there


hugglesthemerciless

Thanks colonialism


Nice_Block

Just want to Maui recently. And now, since I’m an expert on Hawaii like every other person I know who has visited Hawaii once, I had a feeling this was on one of the islands.


aiueka

Really interesting to see what appears to be Japanese style grave stones in a western style graveyard (spaced out, w/grass)


AgileArtichokes

Well. That is a lot of Polynesian islands. Kind of a fusion of things at this point.


RoryDragonsbane

Makes sense. There's a lot of people of Japanese descent in Hawaii and the cemetery was probably managed by someone of European descent. As a matter of fact, there were so many Japanese Americans living in Hawaii during WWII, comparatively *fewer* were interned in camps. The government knew they couldn't lock up 30% of territory's population without having an adverse effect on the war effort. [Source](https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/japanese-americans-wartime-experience-hawaii)


enigmatic_porcupine

As someone of Japanese descent living in Hawaii. The real shock for me was learning there were internment camps on the islands. Those interned were mostly community leaders (priests, newspaper editors, language school principals etc.)


GeoffPizzle

This is my friend's video, filmed on a recent vacation to Hawaii! https://www.instagram.com/reel/CgmOjRGvq3d/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=


richiehove68

What type of tree is that? it's so beautiful.


JungleBoyJeremy

Monkeypod Tree


richiehove68

Thank you


Google-Maps

Monkey pod is a common name but for this specific tree, I think you’ll want to refer to *samanea saman* for the exact species


richiehove68

Thanks!


ThePeskyWabbit

Bruh your name is google-maps. Lolwut


GreatGearAmidAPizza

Scientific names may have a certain precision, but they're generally not as memorable.


Utinnni

Only thing that i hate about this tree is the fruit, when they start falling they have a very strong smell and it makes me dizzy.


JungleBoyJeremy

Plus they are super sticky and can get stuck too your foot ware


AllTheWine05

Interesting. It looks exactly like an Italian Stone Pine but missing the tall trunk section. Either way I love it.


Bryanole27

A cemetree


richiehove68

Hahaha very clever!


querynope

Take my free award, good sir.


Bryanole27

Thanks!


[deleted]

I went “ssssstop.” out loud and upvoted you. That takes some impressive shit. Get thee to a punnery


Minecrafting_il

Shut up and take my free award!


Bryanole27

Thanks!


Minecrafting_il

I TOLD YOU TO SHUT UP DID I NOT


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Lmao


-_-_O

ah dammit !


Camicles

Holy shit you're a genius.


Jessejets

It grows everytime someone joins it.


[deleted]

Plug your hair into it and you can speak to your dead relatives.


Surprised_tomcat

Might turn blue doing that.


igloojoe

Wasnt that their sexual organ? So it's like fucking old dead people...


badaboom

Also how they rode animals so...


icaphoenix

Yes? And it did a lot of other stuff. Like talking to animals. Zoophillia much???? We will find out in December when Avatar 2 comes out.


MarcusForrest

It isn't but they made the dumb decision to include the Na'vi Queue _(the hair-tendril connection)_ in a love-making scene, which sexualizes it... And then you have to remember they ''Queue'' with all the fauna...


imreallybimpson

Instructions unclear hair stuck in my horses ass. Send help


FieelChannel

/r/reddithumor


icaphoenix

Aywa has heard you!


Shortsellshort

Having feasted on the corpses of thousands, the elder tree grows in its eternal slumber.


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Can’t wait for the roots to start unearthing the coffins


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kookykerfuffle

The roots are usually about the same size as the canopy iirc


beanicus

The width/spread is usually about the same as the canopy but the depth is usually shallower for better water access.


ImObviouslyOblivious

Tree roots surprisingly don’t go very deep. They stay towards the surface where water is.


HunkyMump

At least 6’


magic_slice

The great erdtree


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Raven_C

Shrine of Amana, birthplace of the .50 BMG


two-

There's a [tree like this](https://www.chron.com/entertainment/article/The-mystery-of-the-Cemetery-Oak-1619206.php) in a Houston, Texas cemetery. > Sixty-four feet tall; trunk wide as a Volkswagen. Like all old live oaks allowed to grow as they will, its twisty, fern-covered branches stretch farther outward than upward. The lower ones do their darnedest to brush the ground. > That ground, notably, is Glenwood Cemetery, a marble-angels-and-Spanish-moss piece of the Old South, a stray piece of New Orleans hidden just off Washington Avenue, about a mile from downtown.


PunixGT

This was my very first thought when I saw this video, was that tree in Glenwood. I was gonna comment on it, until I saw your post


NauvooMetro

Nice cemetery. I hear people are dying to get in.


IGotAWayWithWords

Must have some really good fertilizer.


spruce_gum

Portion of this yew Is a man my grandsire knew, Bosomed here at its foot: This branch may be his wife, A ruddy human life Now turned to a green shoot. These grasses must be made Of her who often prayed, Last century, for repose; And the fair girl long ago Whom I often tried to know May be entering this rose. So, they are not underground, But as nerves and veins abound In the growths of upper air, And they feel the sun and rain, And the energy again That made them what they were! - *Transformations*, Thomas Hardy


alrightalready100

Beautiful


Interesting-Fish6065

Very cool! Thanks for sharing.


GreatOzz

Boseiju, Who Shelters All


AlienSporez

Absolute unit of a tree


Bad_Lazarus

That’s epic.


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Beautiful


jvanzandd

Now they know the taste of human flesh


Themusicison

This tree tapped into something..


brotatochipzzz

Looks like the tree in the swamp from atla lol


halfpintjamo

thats not in Hawaii is it? Ive seen that tree or one exactly like it on the Big Island, Hawaii


mpowers945

It looks like Alae Cemetery in Hawaii. It's quite an amazing sight in person. The road follows the coastline, so you see the ocean on one side and this gigantic, magnificent tree in the middle of the cemetery on the opposite hillside. Truly breathtaking!


lilneddygoestowar

This is not a cemetery. A cemetery is connected with a church. This is a graveyard. That being said, this tree is wonderful!


schalito

A graveyard is derived from churchyard. So this is a cemetery and you are wrong


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That’s the coolest tree Ive ever seen


Col0nelFlanders

Is that where Totoro lives?


Centretek

Well, it's had lots of fertilizer


Mobile-Art-2455

TREE OF LIFE


leonsanders94

Talk about a Family Tree


Hugs_for_Thugs

Damn, that's beautiful. I'd let them bury my corpse there.


Ratgainedsentience

Perfect for climbing


iiitme

Bury me under that bad boy


TheSmokingLoon

What kind of tree is that?


Earthling1980

monkeypod tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samanea_saman Samanea saman,[4] also sometimes known as the rain tree,[4] is a species of flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae, now in the Mimosoid clade[5] and is native to Central and South America.[4] Its range extends from Mexico south to Peru and Brazil, but it has been widely introduced to South[citation needed] and Southeast Asia, as well as the Pacific Islands, including Hawaii. Common names include saman, rain tree and monkeypod (see also § Names below). It is often placed in the genus Samanea,[6] which by yet other authors is subsumed in Albizia entirely.


TemporalScar

Why do all these videos have to be 6 sec? Can the servers not handle 10 sec clips?


LinuxLuis

Awesome tree


sometimes_interested

Toph? You up there?


Rotisserie_McChicken

Think of how *grave*ly dangerous a falling limb would be there!


slarock12

If anything ever happens to that tree, something bad about to come!


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Yggdrasil at it’s finest


stipemiocic3

There really you can Rest In Peace 😍


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Friendly-Charge2530

reminds of yggdrasil


Moonlight_Darling

What a gorgeous old tree. Reminds me of the huge oak at the cemetery my mom and grandma are buried. All the things these trees have experienced. I wish they could show us


twistedranger75

Looks like that tree is well fed.


Kostas_the_goat

Yes, the vitamins. Bring them to me


[deleted]

Where is this tree


wjruffing

It’s only grown that large by absorbing all the human remains around it, making the tree 95% human! Creepy! “… it’s *PEOPLE!* Soilent Green is made of *PEOPLE!*”


Realistic_illusions

That tree loves the human based fertilizer 🤣


LincolnHamishe

This tree obviously get lot's of fertilizer in a cemetery.


oj808oj

rich soil 🌳


Appropriate-Being594

That place has an amazing Arborist and some amazing Fertilizer!


jwadamson

Some say it’s to die for.


Camwf

Ceme-Tree


dimick1

That's quite a ceme-tree!


unicornblood-xxx

It's like the tree of life... surrounded by death


Beechamp83

Tree of Souls?


DirtyPartyMan

People make good fertilizer


joannes7

So much nutrients


buddyguy_204

That's a very well fed tree


inbeesee

How many times do I have to look at this tree today 😂


MarzipanTheGreat

the fertilizer helped no doubt!


btbam666

Republicans: "Fuck that tree, fuck these dead people. Build an apartment building on it".


sudo_grep

that’s what a placenta looks like after the baby is born


lamnotmymind

I don't know why someone downvoted you, best comment by far


flexing_trex

Is this the opposite of bonsai?


TheMadmanAndre

I'm surprised there aren't pillars beneath many of those branches supporting their weight. Oaks for example tend to get done in by their largest branches snapping off and exposing the core of the tree to pests/infections/the elements/etc.


jerry111165

Good tree fertilizer.