Cryptobotany - Strange Images of Trees

Trees for Peace

Cryptobotany - Strange Images of Trees 

Some cryptobotany may well be pseudoscience, 

but it is also true to say that some "respectable" 

botanists are cryptobotanists...  - MacRusgail

Dr Abe V Rotor

Kaohsiung, Taiwan 

Re-incarnation - this elephant tree had been

once roaming around in band;

threatened, endangered and gone, 

what would it become the next time around? 

St Paul University QC

Young devil tree, but you aren't;

your eyes but holes to your heart;

your arm raised to praise, to call

a friend, such is nature's art.

UST Manila 

Shadow of death I see across the lawn,

save the sun all mourning;

haunting the playground empty and quiet,

save a dead tree walking. 

 

Driftwood Serpent on display at the Living with Nature Center

San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

Rising from a forest long gone;

drifting aimlessly in the sun,

hidden unknown in the sand, 

the like of a monster found.

Driftwood Duck-like Creature, Living with Nature Center

San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

Happy or sad this driftwood duck

many features it may lack,

its horn and bill make me laugh, 

but its message's enough.

Skull and eyes of a tree,  Living with Nature Center

San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

Are trees human, too?

A question its answer is No,

'til you come face to face

familiar no other but you.

Cryptobotany: Review of Literature
Cryptobotany or cryptophytology is a field related to cryptozoology, dedicated to the study and search for formally undescribed plants. Due to their nature, cryptid plants are far less common than cryptid animals.

• Cryptid plants are generally reported from inaccessible tropical regions, and many are carnivorous plants, such as man-eating trees or vampire plants. There is no single dedicated work on cryptobotany, but the largest collections of information regarding carnivorous cryptid plants are contained in Karl Shuker's The Beasts That Hide From Man (2003) and Roy P. Mackal's Searching for Hidden Animals (1980).

• Bernard Heuvelmans stated in the foreword to A Living Dinosaur? (1987) that his proudest achievement related to the Congo dragon cryptids was cryptobotanical: in Les Derniers Dragons d'Afrique (1978), based on advice from Armad Bouquet, he had correctly identified the plant described as the mokele-mbembe's favourite food, "a kind of liana with large white blossoms, with a milky sap and apple-like fruits," as a species of Landolphia. A sample of the liana collected two years later was identified as Landolphia mannii. (Source: Cryptozoology Encyclopedia, Internet)

• "I object to the allegation that cryptobotany is a total pseudoscience. This is totally POV. Maybe the article (not this article) has things the wrong way round. Some cryptobotany may well be pseudoscience, but it is also true to say that some "respectable" botanists are cryptobotanists, since they are looking for unknown or hidden (crypto) plants. Someone who looks for rare orchids is as much a cryptobotanist as someone who looks for man-eating trees. There is just an artificial boundary that creates a false division between the two." --MacRusgail (talk) 10:45, 15 October 2008 (UTC) Wikipedia ~