... "are the most beautiful, the most immediate of analogies.
[...] to rise like them, from the multiple roots to the unity of the trunk and from the unity of the trunk to the diversity of the branches stretched to all directions in space."
Jean Prieur, Les Témoins de l'Invisible (translated from Portuguese)

Fagus sylvatica "Atropunicea" (Purple European Beech), in the Leiden Hortus Botanicus - the Netherlands.

The trunk and the main branches had been all bandaged up in order to control their perspiration, because of a root's disease.

[originally posted on Feb 7th, 2008]

Category: THE TREE