Trees grow tall and mighty, and they don’t care what stands in their way. Neither signs, sculptures, nor other things that we attach to them can match their strength.
We at Bored Panda put together a list of pictures that show “hungry” trees devouring everyday objects just because they can.
So continue scrolling to remind yourself that nature is a force to be reckoned with. And if, for whatever reason, you need more proof after you’re done, fire up our earlier publication about the times Mother Earth made people go “well, that sucks.”
#1 Trees Can’t Read
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Natalie H 3 months ago
Nom nom nom
123ReplyView More Replies…View more comments#2 Tree Grew Around This Sign, Only Leaving The Word “Help” Visible
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Ms.M. 3 months ago
The bark looks like teeth, which adds to the level of creepiness…
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But as much as we admire them, trees are in a lot of trouble. A recent first-of-its-kind study assessing every kind of tree native to the United States found that 11% to 16% of them are threatened with extinction.
The research was carried out across the lower 48 United States over the past five years. It was a collaboration of multiple different organizations throughout the country and even a few global contributors. The result provided a better understanding of the current condition of the local plants and a starting point to work on to protect them.
#3 This Tree Grew Around A Stone Sculpture Of A Face, Making It Appear As If There Is A Green Man Trapped Inside
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Final score:387pointsPOSTMs.M. 3 months ago
Oh nos(e)! 
97ReplyView more comments#4 Nom Nom Nom
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Weirdest Bi You’ll Ever Meet 3 months ago (edited)
The tree munched on the fence and spotted you looking at him. “Wanna have some?”
96ReplyView More Replies…View more comments#5 This Sculpture Of Jesus At Abandoned Cemetery In Poland Gets Slowly Absorbed By A Tree
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🫠Nobody pathetically🫡 3 months ago
Nothing is stronger than nature itself!
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“We can’t protect what we don’t know about,” said Susan Pell, Executive Director of the United States Botanic Garden. “And so we really have to have a baseline of understanding of what things are at risk.”
The scientists looked at the extinction risk, patterns of geographic and taxonomic diversity, and leading threats facing the species. The most common threat turned out to be invasive and problematic pests and diseases.
#6 How?
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JoJo Anisko 3 months ago
Freaky. Remind me never to take a nap leaned up against a tree.
137ReplyView More Replies…View more comments#7 Sharing Is Caring
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Final score:308pointsPOSTWeirdest Bi You’ll Ever Meet 3 months ago
That’s actually a cool idea there!
145ReplyView More Replies…View more comments#8 I Am A Mailman, I Deliver To This Box Every Day
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Robert T 3 months ago
Well a the tree gotta get its copy of Playtree somehow!
99ReplyView More Replies…View more comments#9 Old John Deere Parked For The Last Time
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Biliegh Berrie 3 months ago
Tree art
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“As we have warmer climates, in our northern parts of our country, we see some of these invasive insects being able to go further north to attack more trees,” Pell explained.
For instance, take the Emerald Ash Borer first found in Michigan.
“The early projections when it was first discovered were that it wouldn’t make it to Canada. And now with climate change, projections are going to become more widespread in Canada and certainly in the United States,” Pell said.
#10 Arms In The Air And Smiling
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JoyfulZebra 3 months ago
*happy munching noises*
98ReplyView more comments#11 During An Engagement Shoot, We Came Across This Truck In A Tree
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Scout Finch 3 months ago
Duke boys, the early years.
131ReplyView More Replies…View more comments#12 The ‘Hungry Tree’, Slowing Devouring A Park Bench In Dublin, Ireland
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Andrew Vince 3 months ago
That’s real lumber support…(I’ll get my coat).
177ReplyView More Replies…View more comments#13 After 10 Months This Tree Has Almost Swallowed A Key
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UncleRussian 3 months ago
Man tress can’t afford a home but I can’t afford a 2 bedroom apartment
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Additional climate change threats include worsening drought conditions in parts of the country, widespread wildfires, and more intense storms with heavy rain. Other stressors for trees come from development and agriculture.
“What we’ve identified are the species that are most at risk,” Pell said. “And we’re also looking at some habitats that are most impressive on some of these areas and coastal environments, for example, that are under threat for development, and thinking about ways that we can conserve plants, both from a land perspective but also looking at what can we do for individual species that are really at risk.”
#14 Massive Strangler Fig
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Katie Lutesinger 3 months ago (edited)
Those things like to snack on entire mysterious lost temples in the jungle – a fence is small potatoes by comparison.
97ReplyView more comments#15 Tree Astride A Wall
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Like an Ent stepping on an unwanted wall.
81ReplyView more comments#16 You Would Squint Too, If You Had To Gobble Up A Traffic Sign
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Veronica Alejandre 3 months ago
Bucktooth tree 
110ReplyView More Replies…View more comments#17 This Tree Devouring The Buddha Statue
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Final score:247pointsPOSTUncleRussian 3 months ago
That’s what he would have wanted
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One thing they can do is protect their habitat. Specialists are also working to put at-risk trees in living collections — places like botanic gardens and arboretums.
Through the study, researchers found that there are currently 17 species of trees not found in living collections that need a new home.
#18 Trees Sucking On A Swing In New Jersey
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Asteríx Viking 3 months ago
This kind of make it look safe, like “here I got you” the trees says.
127ReplyView More Replies…View more comments#19 The Way This Tree Is Stripping The Paint Off This Sign Only To Cover Itself In Paint
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It eats the content without throwing away the wrapper
111ReplyView More Replies…View more comments#20 This Forgotten Bike That Grew Into A Tree
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“Hey oak, check out my new bike, it’s fire.” “Dats so cool, palm, I’m getting a sign for my bday.”
70ReplyView more comments#21 I Lost These Glasses 10 Years Ago. Apparently, This Young Hackberry Has Taken Over Them
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Final score:224pointsPOSTDavid Eckel 3 months ago
Eye grasses
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One of them is the Franklin Tree, also known as the Franklinia, which is native to the state of Georgia.
It was collected in the 1800s and never seen in the wild again. Now, however, it’s found in over 100 living collections. An encouraging success story when you consider what is at risk if we lose threatened trees.
#22 This Tree Swallowing A Trespassing Sign
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Final score:214pointsPOSTRonda News Channel 3 months ago
The trespassing sign trespasses the tree
78ReplyView more comments#23 This Magic 8 Ball Has Been Here For A Magical 8 Years
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Final score:214pointsPOSTScout Finch 3 months ago
Answer unclear, ask again
89ReplyView More Replies…View more comments#24 This Tree That Has Absorbed It’s Bench Over The Years
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CaliCoast 3 months ago
What goes around, comes around…
66ReplyView more comments#25 I Don’t Know Why They Had To Replace A Perfectly Good Sign
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Final score:209pointsPOST🫠Nobody pathetically🫡 3 months ago
When the tree can’t make his mind where to go.
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“Our livelihood is the environment,” Pell said. “Trees are one of the most important organisms when it comes to the health of our natural environments here in the United States.”
As we can see from the pictures, they really want to live. All we need to do is to help them more than we threaten them.
#26 Trees Get Hangry Too
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Deborah Harris 3 months ago
It looks like the tree grew a butt just to sit on it 
162ReplyView More Replies…View more comments#27 This Tree Grew Around A Fire Hydrant
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Final score:204pointsPOSTRonda News Channel 3 months ago
The stronger one is in power
40ReplyView more comments#28 A Tree In Front Of My Parent’s House Grew Around An Old Hand Grenade
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Wolfik 3 months ago
Whaat?
86ReplyView More Replies…View more comments#29 Was Told This Belongs Here. An Oak Tree Growing Around An Electrical Box
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Final score:198pointsPOST🫠Nobody pathetically🫡 3 months ago
The outlet is aware of the danger he is in
91ReplyView More Replies…View more comments#30 A Victorian-Era Post Box Being Slowly Swallowed By A Tree
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Potty pagan panda 3 months ago
Well it would of been a big job to move the tree
38ReplyView more comments#31 Tree Grew Into This Rock And Made A Natural Pickaxe
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myvloggun 3 months ago
so this is what happens in minecraft..
92ReplyView More Replies…View more comments#32 This Tree Grew Over A Grave Stone And Took The Cross With It
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Final score:187pointsPOSTPotty pagan panda 3 months ago
That’s definitely a message
69ReplyView More Replies…View more comments#33 My Basketball Hoop From The 90s
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Final score:175pointsPOSTAndrew Vince 3 months ago
A Hoop Pine?
42ReplyView More Replies…View more comments#34 It Knows No Limits. Tree Consumes Metal Sign On The Hiking Trail
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Henry Hagens 3 months ago
That’s what they think
51ReplyView more comments#35 Saw This On My Lunch Break Yesterday
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Final score:171pointsPOSTPotty pagan panda 3 months ago
Feel sorry for the tree really, nothing would like a pole in its side
38ReplyView More Replies…View more comments#36 Found A Trail With A Bunch Of These
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Final score:167pointsPOSTInvincibleRodent 3 months ago
That brown bear is probably glued/nailed to the bark. The tree would have taken years to grow around it, and the fabric looks pretty much new…
134ReplyView More Replies…View more comments#37 Motorcycle In Pine. Laconia, NH
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Final score:165pointsPOSTJoJo Anisko 3 months ago
I have doubts about this one…the cycle seems unusually long?
147ReplyView More Replies…View more comments#38 Found At The Abandoned Detroit Packard Plant, A Tree Consuming A Fire Hydrant
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It is 2022,This is a time when trees have their own water bottles.
62ReplyView More Replies…View more comments#39 Sycamore Tree In France Looks A Bit Menacing After Devouring This No Parking Sign
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Final score:151pointsPOST🫠Nobody pathetically🫡 3 months ago
Red eye bulb, spoopy
35ReplyView more comments#40 Tree Sucking On The Silhouette Of A Hiker
