The Naha Harbor Diner in Okinawa, Japan, is comfortably perched atop an amazing life-size banyan tree structure, also known as gajumaru, with protruding arms that securely hold this pan-Asian restaurant in place.

Overlooking the vast ocean below, this 20 foot banyan tree is built at the entrance of the Onoyama Park in the appropriately named Banyan town shopping center.

The café which is accessible by both a spiral stairway and an inbuilt tree trunk elevator specializes in locally grown and organically harvested foods brought straightaway from the farms. It dishes out fresh vegetables, juicy chickens and pork and native salts thereby cutting down the expenses of shipping and packaging along with a reduction in carbon and plastic wastes.

Even if you are not adventurous enough to try out the local food, the place is definitely worth paying a visit just for its scenic beauty. – via Inhabitat

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The world’s tallest hardwood was found in Australia’s southern island state Tasmania. The trees are known as the swamp gum (eucalyptus regnans), dubbed Centurion. They grow upwards of 100-101 meters tall. One tree that was over 100 meters tall was discovered in a forest near the Tahune Airwalk tourist attraction.

Who’d a thought that a tree of this stature would grow so close to people who could see it. Australia’s AP says “It is the only known standing hardwood tree in the world to be over 100 meters tall.”

It’s the world’s tallest in three categories -

1. tallest eucalyptus tree,
2. the tallest hardwood tree,
3. tallest flowering plant

it is 405cm in diameter.

Locals in Nepal are at a loss to explain how some 3,000 trees in a nearby forest in Banke, mid-western Nepal, collapsed in about 10 minutes.

The trees at the Shrikrishna Community Forest, some 360 km west of Kathmandu just started tumbling down. There was no gale, no storm that day. Just falling trees. Not knowing what to think or who to blame/give credit for, the locals are turning to supernatural theories.

“It’s a bad omen.” And, the District Forest Office (DFO) is taking no initiative to see if an UFO or otherwise was involved.

Spooky, eh? What could cause 3,000 trees to start tumbling down? Aslan maybe?

Image courtesy of crashmattb

If trees in Tokyo could speak, at least one would say, “This is my space. Get out, or I’ll eat you up.” The problem, of course, is in the digestion. What’s the tree going to do with the waste product? Okay, that might be a little bit too graphic to think about. Still…

The Japanese says in the box at the top right “The tree ate the guardrail? The city is famous for this? What’s up with that? A kind of wrapped sushi?”

The text – “Complete, eh? The tree is all the way around the guard rail.”

Yeah, what if the living things on our planets all fought back against our invasion like this?

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