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Possibly strange growth after ice damage. Lots of airborne moisture Plus frigid temps you don't need an ice storm for it to happen
That was my suspicion as well--maybe when the air is below freezing but the falls are still flowing, mist freezes onto the branches until they break. There was so much mist I could barely see the Horseshoe Falls!
When my wife first travelled there, from a distance she wondered what was burning!
Oh yeah, on a clear day you can see the mist rising from Toronto which is 65km away.
I wonder if this tree was pollarded once and then not upkept, causing chaotic growth
Looks like a *Tilia* (I think), repeatedly beaten by ice as people said.
Maybe Catalpa?
Possibly strange growth after ice damage. Lots of airborne moisture Plus frigid temps you don't need an ice storm for it to happen
That was my suspicion as well--maybe when the air is below freezing but the falls are still flowing, mist freezes onto the branches until they break. There was so much mist I could barely see the Horseshoe Falls!
When my wife first travelled there, from a distance she wondered what was burning!
Oh yeah, on a clear day you can see the mist rising from Toronto which is 65km away.
I wonder if this tree was pollarded once and then not upkept, causing chaotic growth
Looks like a *Tilia* (I think), repeatedly beaten by ice as people said.
Maybe Catalpa?