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Monkey Puzzle Trees

  • 11-07-2008 10:18am
    #1
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,313 ✭✭✭


    Remember these things? Big pointy behemoths with spines sticking out of every conceivable part of them. They were irrestible to try to climb though, and I spent many an eve licking my bloody wounds and wondering why I kept trying.
    They were nice looking trees too, how come you dont see them any more?
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  • #2
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


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    Great trees alright...


  • #3
    Ruu_Old
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    Worse when the big kids would take a branch and use it like a nunchuck. :/


  • #4
    Weidii
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    Hell yes! I remember thinking I was great 'cause I could name these trees on school tours, etc. What a cool name for a tree :P


  • #5
    Scawgeen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 251 ✭✭Scawgeen


    There isn't a Parocial House, Convent, Monastery garden that doesn't have the bould Monkey Puzzle tree, they must have been all the rage one time. Really eyepleasing tree.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
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    My neighbour has one in his back garden. Looks like its double the height of our houses. Bloody big tree.


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  • #7
    stovelid
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    Ruu wrote: »
    Worse when the big kids would take a branch and use it like a nunchuck. :/

    :)

    Pain...


  • #8
    Reku
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Reku


    You still see them in peoples' gardens, they're far from extinct, never mind retro...


  • #9
    WindSock
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    Don't like them :pac:


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