Well...lol...the only ones I have are on a small Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Nana'. Over the winter one year something dug the soil out from beneath it and to deter the critter from coming back I put a small rock under it.

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A bit of Niwaki outside Milwaukee, as it were.

tj

Not what I was expecting but pretty neat. It does make me think of bonsai.

I hear oaks are good for growing hosta underneath due to the non invasive and deep root system.

Quercus texana or palustris

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Bald cypress root... It is pretty long.

That is a BIG bald cypress at Krause Springs in Spicewood, Tx (central Texas). Notice that there is no knees? It is up slope so I think it gets all the water from spring water underground. I don't see how else it got to be that big size.

how about this?

or this

or this?

or this?

or this? last one, I promise

Icadem,
Awesome pics. Did you take them ?

This is Rhus Trilobata growing in my backyard.

no dan... they have been scavenged from the web over the course of years...

Not as cool as lcadem's, but...

hortster

And some can take some serious foot traffic abuse...

hortster

No fair Icadem.... but still awesome..........

Horster.... 2nd place...

My faves are a 4 hr drive...but still can't beat u 2

P.S. people fertilizing trees...take note......

I'll add one more: this too is from the web, but I thought it would be worth sharing.
It is a western hemlock.

A bunch of awesome pics to be sure. I have seen trees encapsulating curbs around here also lol but not to that extent.

Here's one of a yellow birch in extreme west MD:

Here's a few...

How 'bout a gathering...

Some roots of another color...

Not too shabby...

Another congregation...

v v, do you know what kind of tree "not too shabby" is?

Danbonsai -- southern magnolia.

How cool!
They sure do what they need to do!

Yes, beng ID'd it - Magnolia grandiflora.

That particular tree is found at Maymont, in Richmond VA.

Thanks beng & vv, don't get to see these up here; love the root the root ,trunk, branch connection...there is an accuminata ( big one -70' X 40') close by, but not the same....
Cheers