by Alex Ziebart 
May 13th 2010 at 9:35PM
Filed under: Cataclysm
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Love Is In the Air | 2/2 - 2/15 |
| Blackrock Foundry Normal and Heroic open | 2/3 |
| Darkmoon Faire | 2/8 - 2/15 |
| Blackrock Foundry Mythic opens | 2/10 |
| Lunar Festival | 2/16 - 3/2 |
| Blackrock Foundry LFR wing 1 opens | 2/17 |
| Blackrock Foundry LFR wing 2 opens | 2/24 |
| Darkmoon Faire | 3/1 - 3/8 |
| Blackrock Foundry LFR wing 3 opens | 3/10 |
| Blackrock Foundry LFR wing 4 opens | 3/24 |
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
busuan May 13th 2010 9:39PM
"Pensacola"
...
"Small steps, Spark, small steps."
Nathanyel May 13th 2010 9:43PM
Well trees growing sideways aren't that uncommon, at least they're a "Caribbean island" stereotype tree. The one tree growing right and then left again could be realistic as well.
Nathanyel May 13th 2010 9:52PM
wrote that before looking at the full size pic for more than a second, obviously there are more than one tree like that.
Googled it a bit, found a German text that claims, without actual confirmation, that reasons for tilted coconut trees are that they grow towards the waterline, so that the coconut can float away to another shore, and/or that the sandy ground can cause the tree to tilt, after which it grows upwards/towards the sun again.
Nathanyel May 13th 2010 9:54PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coco_cdp.JPG
Not as tilted as the trees in the screenshot, but it shows that it's technically possible.
Donhorn May 13th 2010 9:58PM
At an apartment complex I used to live at there were a few palm trees like that right outside my door. One of them ran almost flat along the ground before growing back up again.
Paratus May 13th 2010 10:22PM
There's a tree in the Cayman Islands, in the Grand Cayman botanical gardens, that looks EXACTLY like that, going out over the water.
Loadead May 13th 2010 10:33PM
The term is phototropism, if I remember right.
Rakah May 13th 2010 10:49PM
hydrotropism in this case
Shadowwind May 13th 2010 11:17PM
We've got trees like that in Florida. I'd always assumed it was aftermath from some hurricane. Learn something everyday!
Nathanyel May 14th 2010 4:45AM
http://www.worldofstock.com/closeups/NAB1357.php :)
Jewbanks May 13th 2010 9:47PM
hurricanes and such make trees grow like that palms are really resilient and not very hard so after they get blown over they just start growing upwards again
skurfer48 May 13th 2010 9:53PM
Yup, you see the same thing with trees growing on cliffs, at some point they get tall enough to start turning upwards. I dunno how one could grow in a curl like that other one...but I guess probably the same idea, blown over then growing up...or back over...
Iirdan May 13th 2010 9:52PM
It's the Black Rock!
RuzGofDI May 13th 2010 9:58PM
I wonder if we'll find a goblin engineering trainer near the wreck.
Or the remains of one.
Ringo Flinthammer May 13th 2010 9:59PM
That's actually the starting area in the Lost Isles, as seen in the Blizzcon demos, so you'll find all sorts of goblins there.
Kragragh May 13th 2010 10:15PM
Yeah we know, that's what it says.
Travieso May 13th 2010 10:37PM
Yes, if I remember my Blizzcon experience correctly, there are a handful of the earliest quest givers and vendors there.
Shippleton May 13th 2010 11:49PM
The wierdly bent tree, on the far right... looks like the Paopu Tree from Kingdom Hearts.
cwallis24 May 14th 2010 8:06PM
There's a little cubbyhole of a beach on the mouth of the San Francisco bay, about a mile West from the Golden Gate Bridge on the San Francisco side. On the path down to the beach there is a large tree, a Manzanita I think I was told but can't confirm, which grew on the windy and shifting hillside so that it corkscrews over the path. At some point many decades ago it was supported on either side of the path so that it forms an arch too. I'll see if I have any pics to link later. It's a lot wilder looking than any mere palm tree, in WoW or in RL.