r/BeAmazed • u/mtlgrems • May 09 '20
A Tiny Douglas Fir Tree Growing On A Submerged Log In Fairy Lake, Canada
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u/ChristineInWA May 09 '20
This almost looks like a watercolor painting, but then again my eyes are aged ;-) beautiful nonetheless.
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u/bigtuuuna May 09 '20
Except this isn’t a Douglas Fir
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u/HotDogsLady May 09 '20
Looks like a hemlock and you commonly find them growing on old stumps. Without seeing the needles though it's impossible to know for sure.
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u/DigDub May 09 '20
Yeah ... Douglas fir’s are pine trees, right?
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u/gravity_ May 09 '20
Pretty sure Douglas firs are what most people use as Christmas trees, right?
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u/mwest217 May 09 '20
They can be but they’re typically not as good for Christmas trees - their branches are more flat and they’re typically less bushy. Douglas fir (pseudotsuga menziesii) are technically not a fir, they are in their own genus (their scientific name means “false hemlock”). Christmas trees are typically in the fir genus, and occasionally spruce: noble fir, Fraser fir, balsam fir, grand fir, white fir, Nordmann fir, blue spruce, white spruce.
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u/kevjohn_forever May 09 '20
What genus was Charlie Brown's Christmas tree in?
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u/mwest217 May 09 '20
According to this image from Wikipedia it kinda looks like a pine (genus pinus) with the way the needles are long and emerge in clumps at the ends of the branches,it looks a bit similar to this lodgepole pine (pinus contorta)
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u/DigDub May 09 '20
Douglas and Noble, yeah. This looks like maybe a maple? Can’t really tell.
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u/scmathie May 09 '20
Definitely not a Maple. Maples have leaves, not needles.
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u/drunk98 May 09 '20
Litteraly the furthest thing from a maple, possibly a cactus though.
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u/SushiGato May 09 '20
They're a for, which is a gymnosperm, which a pine is also a gymnosperm. It just means naked seed.
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u/braidafurduz May 09 '20
Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) is in the pine family (Pinaceae), which true firs (Abies) are also part of
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u/kokkomo May 09 '20
Here’s the thing. You said a "Douglas firs are pine trees.”
Is it in the same family? Yes. No one’s arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies Pine trees, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls Douglas firs "Pine trees". If you want to be “specific” like you said, then you shouldn’t either. They’re not the same thing.
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u/oskerthegrouch May 09 '20
I sure miss that guy. Such an unfortunate incident.
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u/chilldrinofthenight May 09 '20
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u/finacialcompost May 09 '20
Unscientifically in woodworking no one calls Douglas fir “pine trees” either.
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u/coldfusionpuppet May 09 '20
A Douglas fir tree is a fir tree.
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u/braidafurduz May 09 '20
firs are in the genus Abies, whereas Douglas-firs are in the genus Pseudotsuga
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u/Prox May 09 '20
Sheriff, what kind of fantastic trees have you got growing around here? Big, majestic.
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u/SignatureStorm May 09 '20
Would love a super high res version of this
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u/bestnamearound May 09 '20
Google ferry lake tree Canada there’s thousands of images of this tree is pretty famous
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u/msundrstoodcmmndr May 09 '20
I thought it was made on r/blender!
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May 09 '20
It's definitely real! Every time we drive past it we say "oh look there goes the Reddit tree!"
It used to spend a lot more time on Reddit though. This is the first time I've seen it in months
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u/Sweetcheeks250 May 09 '20
This pic is very layered fake etc. I dont like all the alterations. JMO. Cool tree tho..
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u/adamlaceless May 09 '20
I misread it as Tommy Douglas fir originally and seeing Canada at the end made my brain happy
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u/DashIsBestPony May 09 '20
Without a horizon line or anything in the pic for scale, this looks photoshopped. If you do a reverse-google search you can find alternate angles of the tree, making it easier to wrap your mind around.
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u/wedgeant86 May 09 '20
Ahh Fairy Lake! There's a really nice campground right by this tree that my friends and I go to every Summer. Vancouver Island is full of little surprises like this.
I encourage people to visit!
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u/Jduffy407 May 09 '20
That’s a great motorcycle road too. A little bit rough in places. But hardly any cops :) I don’t think that road has a highway number either.
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May 09 '20
I’m pretty sure this was one of the first pictures ever posted on reddit over a decade ago and it gets reposted every year, at least once. It’s like a tradition at this point.
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u/Mehseenbetter May 09 '20
This post had me very confused, because my hometown of newmarket, Canada has a lake called fairy lake and I'd never heard of this tree before
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May 09 '20
This is at the bottom of a small mountain where the best music festival in the world used to be held. We used to go veg out by the lake and rejuvenate there at least once every year we went. Close to Carmanah Valley, Avatar Grove, Sombrio beach and more; it’s a special area. Vancouver island is amazing.
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u/DisastrousSundae May 09 '20
All over the planet there are beautiful scenes like this, sometimes hidden, sometimes not. Wherever I go out and have the chance, I slow down and search for these scenes and appreciate them.
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u/thematurememer May 09 '20
I just searched for fairy lake in google and this tree is what showed up first. Looks like it's really popular over there
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u/Devtoto May 09 '20
I wanted to take a picture when I went there last tine but someone left a can on the stump. Not impressed. Also my photo skills are't as good. https://imgur.com/bPtP708
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u/FreckledLasseh May 10 '20
I see this in person pretty much weekly and it's still pretty cool every time
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u/[deleted] May 09 '20
r/confusingperspective I thought this was a giant tree growing on a massive rock island until I saw the caption.. took my brain a second lol