How did the crooked forest in Poland?

In the crooked forest in Poland pine trees look like pot-bellied men. 400 trunks of the trees bent 90 degrees, creating a bark-covered "abdomens". Interestingly, all of the pine are deformed in the same direction — North.

No one knows what caused the unusual shape of the trees in the protected forest at the town of Gryfino. The city was almost completely destroyed during the Second world war, and the mystery of the origin of the forest was lost with him.

Strange curved trees exist in other parts of the world, but not in such huge numbers and not as neatly arranged as in the crooked forest. It is believed that pine was planted in the early 1930-ies. Trunks tilted towards the ground at 1-2 meters, and after making a sharp bend upward. Trees up to 15 metres in height were damaged at an early age, which began to grow in this way. But why?

If the reason of origin of the crooked forest in Poland would be genetic, the curves continued to higher grounds. But since making the zigzag trees again rush up, most likely, their odd shape is the result of exposure to the environment. It is possible that once above the young trees had a heavy snowfall. Drifts crushed the trees all spring, when blooming buds and growing stems. But this version doesn't explain why the curve of the grove surrounded by straight pine.

The prevailing hypothesis is that trees are curved, the farmers in the 1930-ies, to prepare wood for furniture or construction of ships. But the war prevented them from finishing the job.

People often intentionally change the shape of the trees. Example of manipulation with trunks — "circus trees" at Gilroy gardens in California. American Indians deformed trees to navigate in the woods.

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