Beautifully shaped specimen...wow!

And with the hurricanes that can pass through there, that is amazing. Evidently someone knew what they were doing to shape the crown as they did.

tj

That's amaaazing! It looks like a 40' tall bonzai haha. Look how wiiiiide it is too, stunning.

This is the biggest I have ever seen, height and width. I was suprised it survived the 3 hurricanes of 2004. These trees seem to have to growth habit phases. Younger trees are very dense and symmetrical. Then as they get older they seem to get a rotten cavity and part of the tree breaks off giving them a knarled or "bonsai" look. From what we saw after the hurricanes here at Leu Gardens, the older trees are much less wind resistant. We lost quite a few older ones but the younger ones survived undamaged.

Here is one of the better older specimens we have. Look closely and you can see where the scar is from where it broke apart years ago, there is sword fern growing in it.

and here is a huge one we lost in 2004 after Hurricane Charley. It uprooted and split. The dark green tree on the far left is Nageia nagi (formerly Podocarpus). They were the most wind resistant trees we had, leaves didn't even blow off of them during the hurricanes

and here is that Nagia nagi, the photo is actually taken from where that Juniperus silicicola was growing

Eric
Orlando,FL