"Strange As It Seems," San Pedro News Pilot, September 21, 1939 |
The September 21, 1939 version of Strange As It Seems highlighted one of the well-known monarchs of Big Trees Grove … “Known as the ‘Giant Burl tree’ is this huge Sequoia sempervirens, which actually grew from the cut stump of an earlier tree. The burl itself, a natural [excrescence] measuring 6x8x4 feet, developed from a wound at the tree’s base.”
Author's Personal Collection |
The unique shape of the Giant Burl
Tree was described in Strange As It Seems as Nature’s Trylon and Perisphere. This
reference comes from the 1939 New York World’s Fair. The Trylon and Perisphere
were two monumental modernistic structures designed by
architects Wallace Harrison and J. Andre Fouilhoux, which together, became
the symbol of the fair.
Though the author of Strange As It Seems believed that he knew the reason for the appearance of the Giant Burl Tree, the current consensus is, we just don't know for sure.
Though the author of Strange As It Seems believed that he knew the reason for the appearance of the Giant Burl Tree, the current consensus is, we just don't know for sure.
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